The Met Office Weather Report

Max (Celsius)

Min (Celsius)

Rainfall (mm)

AIRHEAD

28.2

21.5

0.2

TRAVELLERS

28.1

20.6

2.4

RESIDENCY

27.1

17.1

Trace*

GEORGETOWN

28.9

22.1

0.7

ST. HELENA

20.3

13.8

5.4

FALKLANDS

4.1

-2.6

8.4

UK (Brize Norton)

24.6

10.5

5.4

ASCENSION:

The bulk of the week was sunny and dry. Although higher ground experienced occasional showers on some nights, they were no more than ‘a few spots’ and there was no measurable rainfall at any of our recording sites from Monday to Friday. By Saturday morning, however, there had been a shift to a generally cloudy regime, with one shower experienced at the Airhead early on Saturday morning and another on Sunday evening - the same shower that brought all

2.4 mm of the week’s rainfall total to Travellers.

*(It should be noted that because the rainfall measurement at the Residency is taken on Sunday morning, this shower is not reflected in the ‘trace’ quoted above, but will be included in next week’s total.)*

ST. HELENA:

The island experienced a wetter week the last, but also a sunnier one – 23 hours compared to only 15 last week. That said, 23 hours spread over a whole week is not all that much sunshine, and there were many cloudy days.

UK:

It was somewhat of a mixed week in the UK. After a rather warm and settled start for most (Brize Norton’s temperature reaching 25 Celsius on Tuesday, only 3 degrees below our own!), it became more unsettled from mid-week as a frontal system swept northward. In the far north west, however, the cloud and rain held off during Wednesday with Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides taking the sunshine record for the day with 13 hours, but it was all change on Thursday as Port Ellen, close to Laphroaig on Islay, experienced 32.2 mm of rain. Once this system had cleared there was a brief settled interlude, but by Friday a deep area of low pressure had developed to the west of Ireland. The associated fronts, however, were initially only noticeably active along their western portions, demonstrated well by the following figures: Barra in the Outer Hebrides received 11.2 mm of rain whilst Edinburgh enjoyed 9.4 hours of sunshine.

FALKLANDS:

After a mild but rather damp start to the week, the weather turned progressively colder as the wind backed southerly. During Friday and Saturday, however, there was a brief, albeit subtle warming (and by subtle I mean that the maximum temperature on Saturday was 2.4 Celsius as opposed to Thursday’s figure of 0.2 Celsius…), but on Sunday there was a firm return to bitter conditions and snow showers, the temperature getting no higher than minus 1.0 Celsius at any point.