With limited sunshine and more cloudy conditions on Friday, with rain at 13.20, the maximum of 18.6C at 16.09 was 0.5C below my 40-year average. We have had another mild night thanks to the thick cloud cover acting as a duvet minimising loss of warmth into the atmosphere that gave a minimum of 14.2C at 01.04 being 5.5C above my average.
A thunderstorm arrived at 05.15 early Saturday with frequent flashes of lighting and thunder from 05.16 with the rain stopping just before 07.30. The rainfall from the combined storms amounted to 17.4mm that took the September rainfall total to 76.4mm being 121% of my 40-year average or plus 13.4mm.
The depression over the Continent has seen the barometric pressure drop another 4mb with a reading of 1018.1mb at 08.00.
