Max (Celsius)

Min (Celsius)

Rainfall (mm)

AIRHEAD     

30.8

23.1

2.3

TRAVELLERS

31.6

22.0

4.8

RESIDENCY           

25.9

19.2

1.4

GEORGETOWN

32.0

23.0

0.0

St. helena           

24.5

18.0

4.4

FALKLANDS

18.2

4.9

2.1

UK (Brize Norton)

10(6.4)

-11(-3.9)

41.9(1.2)

ASCENSION:

For much of the week fine, sunny and hot with only an isolated light shower. However on Friday cloud began to increase generally and  showers became frequent during Saturday evening/night and again though Sunday evening/ night.

 February Average Maximum and Minimum temperatures at the Airhead were within 0.3 Celsius of Long Term Averages. Hottest day was 16^th with £1.0 C being recorded. Coldest night was on 25^th when the mercury fell top 23.1C. This was the 5^th driest month since 1985,  Rainfall total  was 3.1 mm and 1.9 mm of this recorded on Sunday.    Long term Average is 19.5 mm.

ST. HELENA:

Bright with sunny periods by day for much of the week  but cloudier on Friday and Saturday when the bulk of the rain fell. Maximum temperature occurred on Thursday with coldest nights on Monday and Friday. 38.5 hours of Sunshine recorded and the mean wind speed was 11.4 knots.

UK:

An eventful week. On Monday afternoon weather fronts brought rain then snow to the northern Isles and Highlands of .Scotland. Through the evening continuing into the remainder of Scotland. Over Tuesday these fronts continued south across the whole of the UK with a very cold showery northerly flow then becoming established. Further embedded troughs in this Northerly flow traversed the country on Wednesday and Thursday with eastern England coming off worst. The sheltered and favored  south-west got off relatively lightly with each day’s Maximum temperature being shared by Falmouth, Torquay and Saunton Sands with the latter obtaining a sort of hat trick over Friday Saturday and Sunday. During Friday however pressure started to rise from the west as an Anticyclone approached and this slowly began to cut off the supply of bitterly cold Arctic air. By the early hours of Monday this high was centred over the borders. Between the weather systems there was a good deal of Sunshine,  between 6 and 9 hours being recorded daily though on Sunday Falmouth managed 10.5 hours. Lerwick in Shetland bore the brunt of the winter weather with 1.65 inches of rain measured on Friday this would equate to a little under 18 inches of snow if it all fell at once.  Night  Frost was widespread with coldest nights early Friday and Sunday mornings at Senny bridge in Powys and Loch Glascarnoch. However Redhill Airport in Surrey recorded Minus 7 Celsius in the early hours of Tuesday.  Lowest daytime maximum temperature was Zero Celsius at Loch Glascarnoch,  Highland,  Sennybridge , Powys and Redesdale in Northumberland. We think we might stay at Ascension for a day or three longer. 

FALKLANDS:

A quiet start to the week  as high pressure dominated the weather. There were good spells of sunshine with 7.5 and 9.1 hours of sunshine being recorded on Monday and Tuesday.  However weak but rather slow moving fronts moved across from Wednesday onwards bringing large areas of cloud and occasional outbreaks of rain or drizzle. Amounts were small  though with less than a millimetre on any day.