The dry northeasterly winds continue with a much breezier day, gusts rising to 28 mph late evening. After a dry five months, the trend continues with only 3.1mm of rainfall this month whilst the dry, windy conditions persist allowing moisture to evaporate, now totalling 9mm. Although the day was predominantly cloudy there were brief bright periods with just 10 minutes of strong sunshine. This did nothing to raise the temperature, which peaked at 14.4C that is 2C below the average. In fact the strong, cool wind meant a wind chill in that the temperature felt 3C lower.
Overnight the cloud kept the temperature to a minimum of 6.4C but had melted away before dawn to give us strong sunshine as soon as the sun rose above the horizon although after 07.30 occasional thin, high cloud drifted in from the north east. The humidity at 0800 was 85%, a low reading at this time of day.
The weather station of Marlborough, Wiltshire
