May 052012
The cold snap which began in April has continued into May. The temperature at 04:43 today (5th) dropped to 0.4°C. This was the lowest May temperature ever recorded at this station, beating the previous lowest of 0.7°C set on May 13th 2010.
The average temperature so far this month is just 7.4°C, well down on the average of 10.9°C, but with the warmer part of the month still to come.