Saturday started well with 3 hours of strong sunshine before 9am but the clouds started to build as the temperature rose and the sun showed it’s face less frequently as total sun hours finally amounted 3.85. The peak temperature was reached at 14.08 with a maximum of 15.8C before the showers began in earnest.
During the evening there were frequent heavy showers lasting until just after 9pm with a total rainfall of 5.4mm bringing the total for May to 67.3mm, 111% of the May average and the wettest month since January 2017.
There were interesting cloud formations and colours as the last of the heavy showers passed over this station and the setting sun added a red tinge as in the image below.
Overnight the thermometer reached its lowest point at 04.32 with a minimum of 7.2C. The lower temperature and rainfall late into the evening meant that fog rolled in before 6am with visibility down to 300m. This slowly thinned towards 8am.
At 08.00 the thermometer had risen to 10.8C as the sun broke through the last of the fog but unsurprisingly the humidity level was 99%, the highest at this time of day since early February.
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