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Weather in brief
Yesterday
Tuesday 10 November 2026
A grey, cool Tuesday with the month's wettest day so far: 2.8 mm of rain and just 1.0 h of sun.
Max 10.3°C (0.6°C below normal) and min 5.1°C (0.9°C below), a mean of 7.7°C against 8.4°C normally. That's the tenth day running with the maximum below normal.
Rain of 2.8 mm is 127% of the day's normal and the wettest day of November so far; it's the 4th wettest 10 November since 2009.
Sunshine was 1.0 h, only 34% of normal. Yesterday brought 1.6 h.
A cool, very dry and dull start to November: 4.4 mm of rain and 10.0 h of sun in ten days.
Mean temperature 8.3°C, 0.7°C below normal; the average max of 10.4°C is 1.2°C below, the 3rd lowest for the first ten days of November since 2009. The coldest night was 2.1°C on the 9th, and there's been no air frost yet.
Rain totals just 20% of the month's normal, the 3rd driest start since 2009, with only 1 day of 1 mm or more. The wettest day was today's 2.8 mm on the 10th.
Sunshine is 34% of normal, the 3rd lowest start since 2009, with 5 sunless days. Fog was logged on at least 2 mornings.
Every day so far has had a maximum below normal, and 01 November's 10.1°C was a new low maximum for that date.
2026 is on course to be the warmest and sunniest year at the station since 2009.
Mean temperature so far is 14.3°C, 2.1°C above normal and the warmest to this point in the year since 2009 (the previous best was 13.5°C in 2022). Highest max was 35.8°C and lowest min -4.0°C; there have been 77 days at 25°C or above and 24 at 30°C or above.
Sunshine totals 1800.9 h, 122% of normal and ahead of 2025's 1700.8 h, which was the previous best.
Rain is 476.6 mm, 92% of normal and the 4th driest to date since 2009, helped by a 51-day dry spell from 28 June to 17 August, the longest on record. The wettest day was 33.6 mm on 02 June.
Winter was brief: 10 air frosts (normally about 17), and snow fell on 2 days at least.
October 2026: sunniest October on station record, with a wet second half and record early warmth
153.6 hours of sunshine (130% of normal) beat 2018's 153.0 for the sunniest October since 2009. 04 Oct (9.3 h) and 17 Oct (7.6 h) set date records.
Mean 12.9°C, 1.2°C above normal and 7th-warmest of 18 station Octobers. Highs ran 1.8°C above. 04–06 Oct each set a date record, peaking at 22.5°C on the 5th, and 15 Oct set date records for both max (21.2°C) and min (13.9°C). The coldest night was only 6.0°C (21st), the mildest monthly minimum since 2009, with no air frost.
Rain 89.6 mm (138% of normal), 7th-wettest since 2009. A 9-day wet spell (16–24 Oct) ended with 23.8 mm on the 24th, a date record. 07 Oct (7.4 mm) also set one.
Fog was noted at 09 on the 30th. Gusts reached 42.6 mph on the 25th, the 2nd-highest October gust since 2009.
Mean pressure (1019.3 hPa) was the 2nd-highest for October on station record.
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