The intermittent rain, heavy at times relented just after midday on friday, amounting to 3.6mm. This brings the total for September to 14.8mm with six successive wet days.
The welcome strong sunshine of 3.57 hours in the afternoon boosted the temperature to a maximum of 18.1C, which was 0.6C below the September average.
The UV levels this week have been at the lower end of ‘High’ but yesterday only reached into the ‘Moderate’ level.
The barometric pressure bottomed out just after midnight with a low reading of 996.2mb, the lowest reading since 29th June.
It was a very cool night with a minimum of 8.5C at 02.23 this morning, after which time the temperature rose a couple of degrees so that at 08.00 the thermometer was reading 10.8C.