Max (Celsius)

Min (Celsius)

Rainfall (mm)

AIRHEAD     

29.6

22.2

0.5

TRAVELLERS

30.7

18.9

7.0

RESIDENCY           

26.5

17.5

20.5

GEORGETOWN

30.0

21.0

2.0

St. helena           

24.4

16.4

23.2

FALKLANDS

22.8

5.1

2.8

UK (Brize Norton)

10.8

-1.4

10.8

ASCENSION:

Generally fine weather through the week, but punctuated by the occasional shower.  The Northwesterly swell, generated by storms in the distant North Atlantic, built up to about 1.7 metres, producing some lively rollers into English Bay for a couple of days.

ST. HELENA:

A cloudier week than up here on Ascension, and with rather more rain as well. There were breaks though, so some sunny spells as well.

UK:

Last Monday was reasonably mild for January in UK, but an active weather system over the north of Scotland produced a lot of rain. The wettest place was Loch Glascarnoch in Highlands, where 60.8 mm of rain fell in 24 hours. A ridge of high pressure gave a brief, drier interlude for parts of the south and west, but another frontal system brought the return of unsettled weather on Thursday. That wasn’t all bad news, because the week’s highest temperature, 14 Celsius, was recorded on Thursday at Colwyn Bay.  The wind dropped and the sky cleared over much of southern UK during Saturday. This gave the week’s sunniest day to Eastbourne on the south coast, with 7.9 hours of sunshine. It also gave the conditions that led to the coldest night of the week. That occurred at Redhill I Surrey, where the mercury fell to – 5 Celsius over Saturday night.

FALKLANDS:

South Atlantic weather systems did cross the Falklands during the week, but in terms of rainfall they were rather weak affairs. The main feature was a couple of periods of strong northerly winds, which did impact on aircraft operations. E.g. The southbound freighter delayed its departure from Ascension by 24 hours in order to avoid the difficult cross wind situation that develops with strong or gale force northerlies over the airfield at Mount Pleasant.

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