Saturday was another very mild day with the thermometer reaching 16.9C at 15.22 being 2.0C above my 40-year average even though the wind had backed into the west, not quite such warm direction. The day was dry. During the evening the temperature dropped away to a minimum of 8.7C at 21.21 after which time the advancing cloud from Storm Ashley brought thick cloud that saw the thermometer recover to 12.5C by 08.00 Sunday.
Rain began to fall at 06.30 Sunday, light at first, but more likely heavier by midmorning shown by the rain radar.
Storm Ashley is barrelling down on Northern Ireland then moving towards north Scotland. The barometric pressure has started to drop rapidly, currently 1008.1mb, whilst at the centre of the depression it read 952mb. The pressure here dropped 2mb in the last half hour. The wind has backed into the southwest and has been strengthening since midnight.
