Friday was a glorious late summer’s day wth 9.89 hours of strong sunshine and very light winds, mainly from the west but backing into the south west late afternoon.
The strong sunshine and very light winds, with a maximum gust of 12 mph, gave a very pleasant day. The maximum of 23.4C made it the warmest day this month and since 18th July, almost 3C above the August average.
A large lump of slow moving cloud deprived us of early evening sunshine.
Overnight the temperature slowly fell away to a minimum of 12.1C in the middle of the night at 02.46. From this time the thermometer slowly started to rise as more cloud drifted in.
The cloud thinned just before 7am to give intermittent, weak sunshine. Nevertheless, the temperature at 08.00 had recovered to 15.5C.