Ascension : The Weather Report - Met Office
Submitted by The Islander (Met Office) 29.03.2012 (Article Archived on 12.04.2012)

Ascension A mostly dry week with a fair amount of sunshine, slightly cooler than average for this time of the year.

Statistics for the week ending Monday 26-March-12

	Max (Celsius)	Min (Celsius)	Rainfall (mm)
AIRHEAD	30.6	24.6	1.0
TRAVELLERS	28.9	23.4	5.7
RESIDENCY	26.4	20.0	6.5
GEORGETOWN	31.1	24.9	0.0
ST. HELENA	24.2	18.4	0.0
FALKLANDS	13.1	2.2	13.7
UK (Brize Norton)	19.5	0.1	0.0

Past Week’s Weather

UK

A mostly dry and settled week in the UK this week apart from a wet and windy start in Scotland. Temperatures broke March records reaching 22.8C at Fyvie Castle near Aberdeen on Sunday.

Falklands

Showery and breezy for the first couple of days of the week with some sleet/snow on Wednesday. Generally cloudy with rain at times for the end of the week and the weekend but less windy.

Ascension

A mostly dry week with a fair amount of sunshine, slightly cooler than average for this time of the year.

St. Helena

A mainly cloudy week but remaining dry with relatively light winds.

Interesting Missive, compiled by Lotta Hottaire

You might have heard about how the weather changes through the year and about what a typical month might be….but I think this sums the great British weather up fairly well:

A Song of the Weather – Flanders & Swann

January brings the snow,
Makes your feet and fingers glow.

February's ice and sleet
Freeze the toes tight off your feet.

Welcome March with wintry wind
Would thou wert not so unkind!

April brings the sweet spring showers,
On and on for hours and hours.

Farmers fear unkindly May
Frost by night and hail by day.

June just rains and never stops
Thirty days and spoils the crops.

In July the sun is hot.
Is it shining? No, it's not.

August, cold and dank and wet,
Brings more rain than any yet.

Bleak September's mist and mud
Is enough to chill the blood.

Then October adds a gale,
Wind and slush and rain and hail.

Dark November brings the fog
Should not do it to a dog.

Freezing wet December, then
Bloody January again!

Now remind me why we love the UK so much?

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