Martin Rowley wrote:

It's important (the distinction between SSW & SW or WSW), because as
has been pointed out through the summer/early autumn, SSTs are
above-average (roughly +0.5 to +1.0C 71-00) looking back towards
Madeira, rather than +0.5 or less back to the Azores. Oceanic heat
storage at work!

Martin.



Having watched this ex-TS on radar & satpic most of the day it's still
there on the Meteox 21z IR satpic, it's the only ex TS the OP has ever
seen clobbering Britain. It shows in spectacular fashion on one of BB's
sat pics too:

It seemed to just eat the front whilst travelling on its merry way to
the UK.. it seemed the front lost its identity and not the TS.

http://www.woksat.info/etcrj06m/rj06-msg-1800-eu.html

SW Wales just has to be getting a lot of rain..

Les