Under the high pressure on Saturday the sun lifted the temperature to 18.8C by 15.36, the highest for a week but just below my 40-year average at -0.3C. Although the breeze from the southwest had picked compared to the previous day it felt so much warmer. The minimum of 5.2C at 06.43 early Sunday, exactly sunrise time for Marlborough, it was the least cool for four days but still 3.5C below my long-term average. It ws a dry day with the UV level at 4.8, the highest fr four days, being at the top end of ‘Moderate’.
Sunday began with the sunshine weakly after sunrise thought thin c;oid pn the eastern horizon bit soon cleared that and began to shine strongly. A weather front will cross our area later in the day bringing more cloud but no rain, which will mean a much warmer night than of late as the cloud will minimise the loss of warmth into the atmosphere. The breeze will veer a few degrees into the west today.
The centre of the anticyclone will slowly drift towards Scandinavia, which will result in the breeze overnight slowly changing direction to come from the northeast for the next few days bringing more dry and sunny weather and still around average maxima.
