Saturday was such an enjoyable day with many hours of sunshine. However, after a cold night with a minimum of 2.2C and a brisk westerly breeze, the thermometer struggled to reach 14.3C late in the afternoon at 16.25, this being 4.8C below my 40-year average. The clear skies initially overnight saw the thermometer once again drop to a minimum of 2.2C in the early hours at 02.51 on Sunday, after that increasing cloud saw the temperature rise to 5.1C by 08.00.
Sunday dawned with a very red sky in the east for a few minutes as the sunrise illuminated the thin high cloud, but no sunshine. The barometric pressure has started to fall as the next depression closes in.
Another depression is slowly making its way towards the UK that will see the cloud increase significantly during Sunday bringing rain, probably starting light in midafternoon. The centre of the low-pressure will be just off Cornwall by midnight, it is forecast, so a very wet night ahead as there are two weather fronts that will cross our area during the hours of darkness.
The question is, will the rainfall in the next twenty-four hours break my all time monthly rainfall record for any month, set in September 2014, it only needs an additional 15.7mm. The rain had reached the Lizard Peninsula by 09.15.
