Sunday gave us a dreary, dark and damp day. The rain started at 16.10, light at first, later an intense area of very heavy rain arrived at 17.45 for 25 minutes falling at the rate of 60mm/hour for a brief period and amounted to 12.5mm in total. The lack of sunshine and thick cloud meant a cool day with a maximum of 14.3C being 0.5C below my 40-year average. The cloud persisted for much of the night thus a mild night with the thermometer not sinking below 10.0C at 03.15 early Monday, which was 2.6C above the average.
Monday started bright with a weak sun beginning to shine, between variable cloud, after 08.00.
The depression is still to the west of the UK but will not throw any weather fronts across the country on Monday although it is near enough to produce variable showers. The barometric pressure has dropped quite low with a reading of 997.6mb at 08.00, the lowest for over a week. The wind direction with veer a few degrees and come from the south today.
