Ascension : Met Office - Weather Report
Submitted by The Islander (Met Office) 01.11.2012 (Article Archived on 15.11.2012)

The weather continues to slowly improve, with more in the way of clearer skies becoming evident – even at night.

Statistics for the week ending Monday 29-Oct-12

	Max (Celsius)	Min (Celsius)	Rainfall (mm)
AIRHEAD	27.9	19.4	1.0
TRAVELLERS	26.8	18.9	7.3
RESIDENCY	23.4	15.8	14.6
GEORGETOWN	28.5	20.1	0.0
ST. HELENA	18.2	12.3	6.0
FALKLANDS	14.4	-2.4	5.7
UK (Brize Norton)	14.2	0.6	2.8

Past Week’s Weather

UK

A warm front pushing northwest-wards across the southern half of the UK brought quite muggy conditions to much of England & Wales, with extensive low cloud, mist and fog at times. However, colder Arctic air pushed south across all areas during Friday, bringing snow across northern and eastern parts of Scotland, but much clearer and drier conditions to most other areas.

Falklands

Westerly winds dominated until later in the week, then with winds turning more south-westerly on Thursday, bringing colder weather with overnight frosts and the risk of some sleet or snow showers.

Ascension

The weather continues to slowly improve, with more in the way of clearer skies becoming evident – even at night. There were still some showery conditions at times through the week, but these were becoming more confined to around Green Mountain, and day-time temperatures of up to 28 degrees Celsius gave the warmest days since June.

St. Helena

A persistently cloudy week, and although quite showery at first, there was a lot of dry weather from Tuesday onwards. Thursday was the best day when cloud became more broken to give some decent bright or sunny spells.

Interesting Missive, compiled by Rory Forte

The big weather story at the moment is Hurricane Sandy which is making a huge weather impact across the north-east United States and south-eastern parts of Canada. The deep area of low pressure is expected to become slow-moving offshore Delaware, then gradually fill as it turns north-westward and tracks across New York state and then into south-eastern Canada by Thursday 1^st November. Persistent heavy rain is forecast to amount to around 10 inches of rainfall across some coastal areas of Delaware and New Jersey, but on the western side of the depression, cold northerly winds are forecast to bring heavy snowfall as far south as the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia (more than 2 feet of snowfall expected). It will be interesting to see what winds will be recorded at Mount Washington Observatory, which until 1996 held the world record for the highest directly recorded wind speed at 231 mph. The current record is a gust wind speed of 253 mph, recorded on Barrow Island off NW Australia during Cyclone Olivia in 1996

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