The slow-moving weather system that gave so much rain across northern parts of England on Monday was still around today. Northern England, the North Midlands and Lincolnshire saw the heaviest of this. It made Church Fenton in North Yorkshire the wettest place in the UK with a very soggy 37.9mm (1.49 inches), although much of this was overnight.
The coldest place in the UK was the hilltop town of Buxton in Derbyshire where the cloud and rain never allowed the temperature to climb above 13 Celsius. There was also some quite prolonged rain over parts of the southeast of Scotland for awhile
The rain gradually became less widespread and less heavy as it also spread slowly southeast. This allowed Scotland and some parts of northern England to become drier during the afternoon. At the same time East Anglia saw that rain spreading in by the afternoon.
Although skies were cloudy across the bulk of the country there were some noteable exceptions. The southern half of England and Wales started the day with broken cloud allowing some occasional sunshine. This broken cloud would have helped Sennybridge in Powys to have the lowest overnight temperature in the UK of 8 Celsius.
However the western Isles of Scotland fared best in the sunshine stakes, with Stornoway in the Hebrides getting away with a rather surprsing 14.2 hours. There were also some reasonable amounts of sunshine across southwest England. This allowed Torquay in Devon to be the warmest spot with a high of 23 Celsius.
A few heavy showers were occurring along parts of the south coast from quite early in the morning. These became widespread across southern England from east Devon right across to Suffolk and Kent. Speaking from the experience of driving in to London around midday, some of these were very heavy indeed!
The showers in the south then died away in the afternoon, which was lucky for Wimbledon. But early in the evening a new line of heavy, thundery showers developed from Wiltshire across to Surrey. These swung southeast and died away again around dusk. Meanwhile the rain further north continued to become more and more patchy.
