Ascension : Met Office - Weather Report
Submitted by The Islander (Met Office) 26.04.2012 (Article Archived on 10.05.2012)

Ascension: Much of the week was dry with little cloud, but it turned cloudier

Statistics for the week ending Monday 23-Apr-12

	Max (Celsius)	Min (Celsius)	Rainfall (mm)
AIRHEAD	30.6	24.7	0.7
TRAVELLERS	30.5	22.9	3.4
RESIDENCY	27.7	19.6	6.7
GEORGETOWN	31.7	22.9	1.1
ST. HELENA	23.2	17.6	2.4
FALKLANDS	10.7	-2.2	17.7
UK (Brize Norton)	13.4	-0.2	23.0

Past Week’s Weather

UK

A slow-moving area of low pressure became centred over the UK by Wednesday, producing cool conditions with heavy, thundery showers (locally wintry on Scottish mountains) and occasional longer spells of rain.  

Falklands

An unsettled week, with strong to gale force winds and showers or longer periods of rain. From Friday, it turned significantly colder with strong winds and moderate or heavy snow showers, locally with hail and thunder.

Ascension

Much of the week was dry with little cloud, but it turned cloudier over the weekend with occasional slight, locally moderate, showers – mainly during the evenings.

St. Helena

A fairly cloudy week, with scattered mainly light showers. By the weekend, the showers had dispersed and breaks in the cloud allowed for some lengthy sunny spells.