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  Issue No. 2447 Online Edition Friday 16 November 2018 
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Ascension : Met Office Weather Report
Submitted by The Islander (Met Office) 04.06.2009 (Article Archived on 18.06.2009)

Statistics for the week ending Monday 01 June 2009

 

Statistics for the week ending Monday 01 June  2009

 

 

Max (C)

Min (C)

Rainfall (mm)

AIRHEAD

30.1

23.9

1.2

TRAVELLERS

30.0

22.2

5.3

RESIDENCY

n/a

n/a

n/a

GEORGETOWN

n/a

n/a

n/a

ST. HELENA

21.8

16.4

19.6

FALKLANDS

8.9

-1.3

14.3

UK(Brize Norton)

24.8

7.5

8.2

ASCENSION: A generally fine week with broken cloud lifting off Green mountain and allowing good views around the Island.

ST. HELENA: The week started cloudy with patchy drizzle for Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday was fine ahead of a very windy day on Thursday with heavy overnight rain followed by a cloudy day Friday and Sunny spells with isolated showers on the weekend.

UK: An unsettled start to the week with thunderstorms in the south on Monday then mild westerly winds with cloud and drizzle for Tuesday and Wednesday.  The rest of the week was then warm dry and sunny.

FALKLANDS: Cold and unsettled with outbreaks of rain and sleet for the first half of the week. A brief respite to the cold weather on Thursday and Friday but cold weather with low cloud and drizzle returned for the weekend.

1st June is traditionally the first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere but as Ascension Island lies in the Southern hemisphere this must be our first day of winter. The days are certainly shorter as the sun continues to move further north until it is overhead the Tropic of Cancer on 21st  June. (Mid-summer’s day for the Northern Hemisphere and longest period of daylight for the UK) 

Here in the southern Hemisphere 21st June is probably close our shortest day with only 11 hours and 39 minutes of possible daylight, though the amount of possible daylight falls below 11 hours 40 minutes between 6th June and 3rd July. In comparison our longest period of daylight occurs between 3rd Dec and 6th Jan when 12 hours 34 minutes of daylight are possible with a maximum of 12 hours and 35 minutes occurring on Dec 21st. As far as my personal views are concerned when I am doing something I like - there are never enough hours of daylight. Yet when I am doing something I do not like - there are too many!

 

Issued by Wyn D Poynt at  1700Z

 

Met Office Ascension

Contact Met Office Tel 00247 3317

Email: ascensionstaff@metoffice.gov.uk

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