An eye on this week's weather
| 15:40 UK time, Wednesday, 7 October 2009
After a disappointing July and August, September turned out to be a much more cheerful month. After a wet and unsettled start areas of high pressure brought us plenty of fine weather and some wonderful sunsets!
Averaged across Wales, it was drier, warmer and sunnier than normal. Mean temperatures were 12.8 Celsius, 0.3 degrees above the long term average. There was 138.7 hours of sunshine, 109% of the average and rainfall was 50.4mm, 41 percent of average.
More recently, we've all seen some rain. Here are the rainfall figures for the last 24 hours until 7am Wednesday morning, October 7th.
Capel Curig 44.0mm
Tirabad (Powys) 39.0mm
Lake Vyrnwy 34.0mm
RAF Valley (Anglesey) 27.0mm
Pembrey 25.0mm
Aberporth 23.0mm
Rhyl 18.4mm
Milford Haven 17.8mm
Aberdaron 13.6mm
Trawscoed 13.0mm
St Athan 12.0mm
Mumbles 10.0mm
Most of the rain has now cleared leaving much of Wales dry but rain over southwest England will spread back into parts of the south this afternoon. Yesterday was warm and muggy with a high of 20 Celsius, 68 Fahrenheit at Hawarden in Flintshire but today is much cooler and fresher with maximum temperatures around 14 Celsius.
This evening, rain in the far south will clear leaving all of Wales dry overnight and chilly with a ground frost in places by the morning. Tomorrow fine and dry with sunshine and light winds. Friday will start dry but more rain will spread from the west during the day along with freshening winds.
Derek
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