After starting the day on Sunday with snow on the ground and a temperature of 2.9C at 08.00, by 08.15 sudden warmth arrived from the warm front overcoming the previous Arctic air with a temperature of 7.8C at 08.15 and by 08.30 had risen further to 9.6C. The thermometer reached a maximum of 12.4C at 13.25 being a significant 5.3C above the long-term average and prompting a rapid thaw assisted by modest rainfall. The total precipitation amounted to 18.9mm that took the monthly total to 46.4mm when the average is 89.6mm. During the early hours of Monday more steady rain fell but as the wind backed into the west the temperature began to fall again reaching a minimum of 1.6C at 07.26 early Monday.
Monday slowly came to life under thick cloud cover and strong winds, the main rain band having moved on and the temperature having lifted slightly to 1.8C by 08.00 The deep depression is just beginning to pull away with the barometric pressure reading at 08.00 of 976.4mb, a very low pressure as currently the centre of the depression is close by. The minimum of 971.0mb was the lowest pressure since 28th March 2024.
The low as it moves away has seen the wind veer into the west beginning to feed a much colder air stream. Wind chill is now a factor again as outside it feels more like -2C rather than the 1.8C indicated on the thermometer. Colder days and nights are ahead.
