Max (Celsius)

Min (Celsius)

Rainfall (mm)

AIRHEAD

27.9

20.6

3.3

TRAVELLERS

26.5

19.6

15.4

RESIDENCY

23.1

16.7

25.0

GEORGETOWN

28.9

20.4

Trace

ST. HELENA

17.8

13.2

6.2

FALKLANDS

14.7

-0.5

3.9

UK (Brize Norton)

16.5

4.5

1.0

UK

Very settled with a high pressure system dominating the weather. Patchy fog affected parts at time, especially my home station of RAF Benson which is prone to both frost and fog, Benson dipped to a chilly PS 1.3C on Saturday morning. A frontal system moving in from the North, brought some rain over the weekend.

Falklands

Rain and showers accompanied by the usual Falklands strong winds started the week, but this gave way to a bright and sunny second half of the week. Particularly strong winds gusting up to 53KT were experienced on Sunday afternoon.

Ascension

Usual mix of cloud with bright sunny spells, and scattered showers mainly overnight. Only 1.3 mm fell overnight on Friday, but it definitely seemed like it was raining all night for those of us working the planes heading south.

St. Helena

Cloudy with drizzly showers most days. Thursday and Friday were both quite wet with showers through much of the day.

An intense “super typhoon” has made landfall in the northern Philippines, bringing winds of more than 155 KT and heavy rains. Tropical cyclones formed in the Pacific Ocean are called typhoons. They are classified in the same way as Atlantic Ocean hurricanes, with a category 5 typhoon commonly referred to a super typhoon.

Megi, the strongest tropical storm to hit the Philippines, has weakened as it made its way across the northern Philippines and crossed the Cordilera mountain range. It is then forecast to strengthening again in the South China Sea as it heads for Southern China.

Emergency services in the Philippines are on full alert following criticism of their handling of Typhoon Ketsana last year. Many people trapped by that Typhoon were helped by aid agency rather than the government. In further embarrassment, the head of the state weather bureau was sacked earlier this year when they said a typhoon would miss Manila, it stuck the capital killing 100 people.