Sunday brought us a very sunny morning with 3.6 hours of strong sunshine, which raised the maximum temperature to 22.7C (+6C) just after 2pm. As we passed midday thin cloud began encroaching from the south slowly reducing the strength of the sun until the first light spots of rain became apparent just before 3.30pm, but came to nothing as the storm broke up and dissipated as it moved in from the coast.
The preceding night was warm and dry so this bee decided to stay out overnight and at 08.00 was still attached, upside down, to the allium flower and was waiting for warmth from the sun’s rays to raise it’s temperature before it flew off shortly after this image was taken.
The yellow warning of heavy rain from the Meteorological Office, however, did materialise as just after 00.30 this morning there was heavy rain for a couple of hours, amounting to 6.8mm. This brings the total for May to exactly 80mm, being 20mm above the 33-year average for Marlborough.
It was a mild night due to the thick cloud so that the thermometer did not drop below 13.4C at 05.33. With no sun this morning the thermometer read 13.9C at 08.00.
