Saturday started with sunshine but scattered showers soon bubbled up, increasing in frequency during the afternoon that gave an additional 6.8mm of daily rainfall. This precipitation raised the July total to 64.1mm, now above the long-term average by 4.3mm.
Due to the occurrence of showers the maximum was only 18.6C from the 1.6 hours of limited strong, morning sunshine, which was 4C below the 33-year average and occurred at 12.17. After that time the thermometer fell to around 13C for the rest of the afternoon. It was the coolest day since 29th June and 1.2C down on the previous day.
The cloud moved away to the east during the late evening and the clearing skies meant that the temperature began to fall significantly to a minimum of 8.8C at 04.18. This was 3C below the 33-year average, the coolest night since 14th June and 1.5C down on the previous night.
This morning started with intermittent strong sunshine, replicating the start to the day yesterday. But by the time readings were taken at 08.00 the sunshine was more limited with the thermometer recovering to 13.4C.