The regime of sunshine and showers continued during the first week of August with rain every day until …. thanks to Storm Patricia, named by the Météo France as the major impact was over their country.
Storm Antoni arrived in the early hours of the 5th with more rain and rising wind strength, maximum gust of 28mph, that had backed from the northwest of previous days to south. The rain, mostly light, continued from 07.00 to 22.30 on the 8th
A short-lived ridge of high pressure from the 9th to the 11th, brought welcome relief from the previous consecutive wet days. At last, the thermometer rose above average with 24.9C on the 9th and 25.8C on the 10th. The latter was 3.2C above average and the warmest day since 7th July.
The night that followed was very warm and muggy with the thermometer not dropping below 17.12C, which was a significant 5.4C above the average and the warmest night since 3rd August 2022.
After yet more rain days from the 13th to the 14th, a temporary ridge of high pressure built. This resulted in not only very welcome dry days but the thermometer climbing above the average.
This was followed by two wet days before a ridge of high pressure from the south gave us several sunny days and the warmest day since 7th July when the thermometer peaked at 26.0C on the 23rd.
The dry period of six consecutive days from the 19th to the 24th was the longest dry period since the first week in June and was very welcome.
A cold front passed our way on the 25th that saw temperatures begin to fall away with the coldest night in the early hours of the 27th as the thermometer dropped away to 7.4C being 4.4C below the average.
The average temperature for the month was 0.2C above the average.
The rainfall of 73.0mm was 7.2mm above the average.