On 28 Aug, 21:28, "Nick Gardner"
wrote:
For those interested in these things, I have just been looking back through
my recent weather recordings for last Saturday (25th Aug 2007) and I've just
noticed what the effects of the arrival of an unusually 'late-in-the-day'
sea breeze had on temperature, and of course, wind direction. The sea breeze
here is normally very persistent on warm, sunny days blowing almost
continuously from a SSE direction at between 8-10 mph. This one was a little
feeble but it still managed to drop the temperature quite quickly, though
obviously aided by the lowering of the sun in the sky.

16:00 28.6C 1.4 mph NW
16:15 28.9C 1.0 mph NW
16:30 29.1C 1.3 mph WNW
16:45 29.1C 1.8 mph NW
17:00 29.1C 1.3 mph WSW
17:15 29.3C 0.9 mph WSW
17:30 29.4C 0.6 mph WNW
17:45 28.9C 10.9 mph S
18:00 24.1C 6.7 mph SSE
18:15 22.5C 4.6 mph SSE
18:30 21.9C 2.9 mph SSE
18:45 21.5C 2.5 mph SSE
19:00 21.2C 2.9 mph SSE
19:15 21.0C 2.3 mph SSE
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Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amslhttp://www.ottervalley.co.uk

Hi Nick,

Must have cooled it down nicely between 1730 and 1815.
Being a land lubber, please excuse my lack of knowledge on sea
breezes. What is the likely cause for such a late sea breeze? With an
air temerature of 29.4, and I imagine a SST of around 17C, and no
enviromental wind field to oppose your expected sea breeze it seems,
as you say unusually late

Cheers,

Ian.

Raunds East Northants. Nat Grid Ref SP9972
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