Thursday gave us another mild autumnal day with the maximum of 18.4C, just under average, exactly the same as Wednesday.
It was a dry day with much more sunshine, 6 hours in total.
Initially the thermometer dropped away as the evening progressed but the cloud cover ahead of the next weather front started to raise the temperature just after 9pm so that by 03.15 this morning, the thermometer had risen 3.5C. The minimum overnight was 12.5C, which was 3.2C above average.
Rain began to fall just after midnight and continued until 03.15, producing 1.5mm. This brings the September total to 66.3mm being 5mm above average.