Tuesday was plagued by frequent bands of light rain and drizzle from a wide and slow moving weather band. The rainfall total of 1.1mm was modest but it meant a largely wet day. Late afternoon there were a couple of breaks in the thinning cloud that meant the day finished on a brighter note with 41 minutes of strong sunshine. The maximum of 18.6C was average for September.
Early evening the cloud broke up and we enjoyed a clear sky with a bright, full moon. At this time the high humidity experienced all day, around 93%, dropped into the lower 80’s as the wind veered from the south into the west just after 7pm.
The temperature dropped away until 02.05, with a minimum of 10.6C, when some transitory cloud meant that the temperature lifted a couple of degrees. This minimum was 1C above the 33-year average for September.
Dawn arrived with a cloud sheet that started to break up after 7am with strong sunshine bringing alive the sunshine recorder just after 8 am.