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Submitted by The Islander (Met Office) 20.08.2009 (Article Archived on 03.09.2009)

The Met Office Weather Report

Statistics for the week ending Monday 17th Aug 2009

                                           Max (Celsius)    Min (Celsius)    Rainfall (mm)
AIRHEAD                                   27.8                  21.6                 0.1
TRAVELLERS                            28.4                  20.2                Trace
RESIDENCY                               N/A                  N/A                  N/A
GEORGETOWN                         30.1                 22.2                  Nil
ST. HELENA                              19.0                 13.6                 27.2
FALKLANDS                              6.2                   -2.3                  17.3
UK (Brize Norton)                       24.9                 10.3                   2.8

Past week's Weather

UK

Low pressure dominated the UK at the beginning of the week but pressure slowly rose from the south making frontal systems weaker here. By the end of the period the south was dry while the north kept a good deal of wet weather.
Falklands An unsettled cold week with strong Northerly winds on Wednesday and Saturday

Ascension 

A pretty good week with only some very isolated light showers.

St. Helena 

After a dry start to the week most places ended quite wet with some persistent showers running through the Island on Friday and Saturday. 

Amazing Weather Facts
A hailstone almost the size of a bowling ball fell in Nebraska, in the USA, on 22 June 2003. Measuring 17.8cm in diameter, it is the largest hailstone ever recorded.
A bolt of lightning can travel at up to 136,000mph and reach temperatures of 30,000 °Celsius — hotter than the surface of the Sun!
Ice in the Antarctic is more than 2.5 miles thick in places.
A tornado, which lasted for more than three hours and was three miles wide, is the deadliest in history. The giant storm hit three southern states in the USA on 18 March, 1925 and killed 747 people.
The windiest place on Earth is Port Martin, in Antarctica. Here winds average more than 40mph on at least 100 days every year. The place with the least wind is also in Antarctica, at a site called Dome A. Here the wind hardly blows at all. This shows how Antarctica is a place of extremes.

Compiled by Wyn D Poynt
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