Max (Celsius)

Min (Celsius)

Rainfall (mm)

AIRHEAD

27.8

19.8

8.1

TRAVELLERS

26.7

18.6

20.0

RESIDENCY

23.0

16.1

35.7

GEORGETOWN

29.0

20.0

8.8

ST. HELENA

19.3

13.6

Trace

FALKLANDS

15.0

0.4

1.1

UK (Brize Norton)

24.4

4.6

14.8

ASCENSION: Just another mid-winter week – and more rain. Humid at times, Friday night certainly saw some downpours, and that aside it’s been a pretty cloudy week overall anyway. However, a suggestion that a return to warmer, sunnier times might be afoot with the season’s change is indicated, as the temperatures are beginning to pick up ever-so-slightly, whilst the sight of lambs everywhere might also tell its own tale. Keep the faith!

ST. HELENA: Cloudy again this week in Jamestown and surrounds, but staying pretty much dry, as it goes. Despite a somewhat derisory 11.3 hours of sunshine, however, the winds were also that bit calmer, so fairly pleasant conditions on the whole.

UK: A tale of two halves at the start of the week for the UK. Whilst the South sat resplendent under a ridge of high pressure, the far North and West of Scotland were being subjected to something of a deluge. As slow-moving frontal bands dumped 104mm on Tuesday and 52mm on Wednesday on the hapless residents of Skye, Essex and Norfolk were experiencing some excellent sunshine totals, with the London area climbing to peak temperatures of up to 25 Celsius.

     However, this was all to change into Thursday and Friday as a low pressure area crept up from the South West, bringing 31.5mm to Lowestoft on Friday. At the same time, clearing skies and a Northerly flow over Northern Britain began to send overnight temperatures tumbling, with Shap Fell in the Lakes seeing minus 2 Celsius on Saturday. This cooler, fresher and more autumnal-feeling weather gradually slipped southwards over the weekend, culminating in Sunday’s lowest temperature of 2 Celsius over the sandy soils around Bournemouth.

FALKLANDS: A cool start to the week, with a sharp blast of Southerly strong winds and the wintry shower, but as the flow began to turn West to North-West from Tuesday a theme of very mild temperatures was established. Indeed, the only significant precipitation of the week came with the passing of an occlusion on Wednesday, but from there on there were some remarkably pleasant conditions experienced for the time of year, reaching a maximum temperature on the Saturday of 15 Celsius - one for the sunbathers!

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