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  Issue No. 2161 Online Edition Thursday 23 May 2013 
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Ascension : The Met Office Weather Report
Submitted by The Islander (Met Office) 27.01.2011 (Article Archived on 10.02.2011)

Ascension: A rather sunny week, feeling warm but with a cooling breeze. Isolated overnight showers at the start of the week.

 

Statistics for the week ending Monday 17-Jan-11 

 

Max (Celsius)

Min (Celsius)

Rainfall (mm)

AIRHEAD

30.3

23.5

0.8

TRAVELLERS

30.8

21.7

3.3

RESIDENCY

25.6

19.1

3.3

GEORGETOWN

34.4

23.5

Trace

ST. HELENA

24.7

17.1

6.8

FALKLANDS

21.7

3.5

18.1

UK (Brize Norton)

11.1

-2.9

10.4

Past week’s Weather

UK: Rainy and overcast on Monday but high pressure built on Tuesday to give crisp, fair weather with misty mornings for the rest of the week.

Falklands: A mixed bag of nuts at MPA with a grey start to the week then sunshine and showers midweek. Towards the end of the week and into the weekend it was cloudy, damp and foggy. Sunshine returned on Sunday.

Ascension: A rather sunny week, feeling warm but with a cooling breeze. Isolated overnight showers at the start of the week.

St. Helena: Good fair weather, mostly cloudy but dry with the odd sunny period in the afternoons and a few overnight showers.

2010, scorchio!

This week the Met Office and the University of East Anglia released the global temperature for 2010. The results show a global mean of 14.50 oC, the second highest on record after 1998. NASA and NOAA’s National Climatic Data Centre echoed this finding saying 2010 was the equal warmest in their records. El Nino conditions in the Pacific at the start of the year are thought to have heavily influenced the global temperature. Even though it has been a record breaking cold winter in the UK the northern hemisphere experienced its warmest ever year.

Locally it was a record breaking year on Ascension too with the average temperatures for February, March, April, May and June all the warmest we have seen in the last 26 years.  We had our hottest ever day at the Airhead last year on 25th March with 32.5 oC. Our mean temperature for 2010 was 26.44 C, also a new high.

 

Compiled by  Sir Russ Tratus

Crown Copyright 2011

 

Met Office Ascension Island base

 

 

 
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