Wettest August on record

Last week’s theme was a mixture of sunshine and showers and thankfully the humid conditions midweek failed to materialise into thundery conditions.

The maximum temperature was a pleasant 20.8ºc and it was a mild week, with the overnight low no colder than 12.8ºc. Rain fell on most days, with Friday the wettest day last week with 15.75mm of rainfall.

Maximum temperature: 20.8ºc Thursday, August 20, and Saturday, August 22

Lowest temperature: 12.8ºc Monday, August 17

Maximum daily rainfall: 15.75mm Friday, August 21

Weekly rainfall total: 30.98mm Maximum wind gust: 28mph Saturday, August 22

Wet and windy conditions forecast for Tuesday will hopefully have moved out of the area by today, leaving a mostly overcastwednesday.

More wet weather is possible on Thursday, although it will be less windy. Drier conditions should end the week and the start of the weekend is looking mostly dry with sunny intervals, although another area of low pressure is set to bring us more wet weather as we begin next week.

Daytime temperatures will be disappointing and struggle to reach 15ºc on most days while overnight temperatures over the weekend could drop as low as 6ºc.

Earliest sunrise: 06:20

Latest sunset: 20:09

August 2020 is now our wettest month of August since our records began in 2009.

At the time of reporting this month has recorded 136mm of rainfall and that figure will increase with some wet days forecast during the final week of August.

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