Max (Celsius)

Min (Celsius)

Rainfall (mm)

AIRHEAD

31.6

25.2

0.2

TRAVELLERS

33.4

22.7

0.0

RESIDENCY

20.8

29.6

1.5

GEORGETOWN

33.5

24.1

0.0

ST. HELENA

25.0

17.5

16.0

FALKLANDS

17.5

4.4

6.2

UK (Brize Norton)

14.3

-3.3

3.4

UK

One or two very weak weather front during the week, with high pressure and settled weather developing over last weekend.

Falklands

Some warm afternoons last week with Thursday, Saturday and Sunday all crossing the 15 Celsius mark. High pressure dominated but a frontal system crossed the island on Wednesday into Thursday giving 5.2 mm of total rainfall.

Ascension

We are at the peak of the Ascension ‘summer’ right now, with maximum temperatures reaching 31 to 33 Celsius across the island. The highest temperature on record at the airhead is 32.5 Celsius which occurred on the 25^th March 2010, i.e. last year!

St. Helena

Some showers Wednesday morning and during Saturday keeping temperatures down to only 23 Celsius at best. Friday and Sunday were probably the best days of the week.

Asi Earthquake: On Saturday 19^th March 2011 at 18:43 and 3 seconds precisely (GMT) an Earthquake with magnitude of 5.1 to 5.3 was recorded 175 miles south south east of Ascension Island, at a depth of between 10 and 30 km (which is shallow). Did you feel it? For comparison the earthquake that recently hit Japan was 9.0 in magnitude.

Supermoon: This Saturday’s full moon will be the closest it has been to Earth in 18 years, and is known as a ‘supermoon’. The distance between the Earth and the moon during the event will be about 221,567 miles, as compared to the average distance of 238,000 miles. That may not seem like much of a difference (and compared to the distance it’s not), but the diameter of the moon is only 2,159 miles. That means the moon will be over 7.5 diameters closer to Earth than average.

Clocks change: Don’t forget that UK clocks go forward one hour to British Summer Time at 0100 hours 27^th March 2011. Ascension time remains unchanged at Greenwich Mean Time.