The steady rain lasted throughout the daylight hours on Monday and into the evening, amounting to another 43.4mm of precipitation. That was the second wettest day I have recorded since the station was set up 1984 with the record held on the 17th September with 49.7mm. The additional precipitation took the September rainfall total to 160.8mm, which is 255% of my 40 -year average or plus 97.8mm.
Thanks to the persistent rain from the thick, low cloud the thermometer all day never rose above the temperature at 08.00, which was 14.7C, being 4.4C below my 40-year average. There was a drop of just 2.4C in the early hours with a minimum of 12.3C at 08.00 on Tuesday.
The air stream changed direction after 19.00 on Monday and slowly veered from the southwest to the west-northwest as the very slow moving depression began, at last, to relocate onto the North Sea, so that by midnight to the northwest.
The start to Tuesday revealed that the rain had actually stopped with the cloud cover still total, but thinner. The breeze today will be lighter and we will see the wind back from the northwest into the west and probably west-southwest late on the day. The barometric pressure at 08.00 read 1003.8mm having started to rise from its lowest pressure all month, which was 1002.5mb in the early hours.
