The depression over northern France spilled copious amounts of cloud over the UK on Sunday, although there were bright intervals in the morning also some weak sunshine. The thermometer peaked at 18.52 with a maximum of just 5.8C being 2.4C below the long-term average. The temperature varied little overnight thanks to the cloud cover with a minimum of 2.2C at 05.10 being 0.3C above the average.
Rain from the low-pressure system began to fall intermittently after 17.15 with a much more consistent fall just before and after midnight and another rain band from 04.55 that amounted to 16.2mm of precipitation. These disturbances brought increased wind rising into double figures after a relatively calm day with a peak gust of 23mph at 20.03.
Monday dawned ever so slowly with rain and very low, thick cloud. The high pressure is still mainly to the east of our area that, combined with the depression, is likely to bring continuous cloud all day with intermittent drizzle and light rain driven on by a cold northeasterly breeze, stronger than on Sunday. At least the fog has cleared but left us with misty conditions. The pick up in wind speed will produce a wind chill again today but not as severe as on Friday, The temperature at 08.00 was 2.7C with a wind chill making it feel more like 2.1C outside on the skin.
The anticyclone is forecast to be resident for much of the week, stretching as far east as Russia, which will mean a feed from a northeasterly air steam that will continue bringing with it cloud and moisture trapped under the high pressure dome, as it crosses the cold North Sea.