Saturday gave us another glorious day with unbroken sunshine totalling 12.16 hours, the greatest number of hours since 15th August 2016. This raised the temperature to a maximum of 19.8C just after 4pm, which was 6C above the 33-year average, making it the warmest day since September 28th last year. It was not surprising to find that the strong sunshine in a clear blue sky raised the UV level again to 5.6, in the ‘High’ category. Last night was not as cold as previous nights with a mimimim of 5.6C, which with the effect of strong sunshine from dawn raised the thermometer to 8.8C at 08.00.
The strong sunshine and light winds, now from a south-easterly direction with maximum gusts yesterday of just 12mph on several occasions, meant that we are now losing 3cm of moisture into the atmosphere every day.
The weather station of Marlborough, Wiltshire
