Wednesday was even colder than the previous day with a maximum of 9.7C, the coldest day this month, but the wind chill factor reduced this by 2C. Late afternoon another rain shower gave us 1.2mm of rain bringing the total for April to 5.5mm. At this time the thermometer started to drop and continued falling almost continuously until this morning. The minimum temperature was -3.0C, the coldest April night since 2013, that occurred at 05.45 with the thermometer rising to 2.0C at 08.00 under the influence of a strengthening sun. There were eight hours of sub-zero temperatures. The soil temperature at a depth of 5cm was reading 3.4C at 0800, the lowest for a month.
The weather station of Marlborough, Wiltshire
