"Julian Scarfe" wrote in message
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"Alex Stephens Jr" wrote in message
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Loch Glascarnoch reporting -10ºC, Stornoway, a smidgeon over 70 miles
away,
reporting +3ºC.
And I imagine that difference will increase considerably over the next
few
hours.

I guess that what surprised me (which I didn't mention) was that both
Bristol and Mawgan were very much in the clag:

EGGD 201950Z 10014KT 1500 R09/P1500 R27/P1500 -DZ BR BKN001 02/02 Q1021=
EGDG 201950Z 25010KT 2600 RADZ OVC001 12/12 Q1020=

It's not unusual to see large surface temperature differences where
there's
a difference in cloud cover, but this seemed to me to be an unusually
sharp
change within the surface manifestation of a front.

Julian.

Actually it's quite common for the far SW to be much warmer than east Devon
upwards under these conditions. The sea is still 13 degrees, and west
Cornwall is almost surrounded by it. All that 'warmth' trapped under the
blanket of low cloud, and a W wind to go with it. The only way the
temperature gets remotely near freezing here these days is under a clear
sky, or a strong E/SE wind. In 2002 we didn't get a single air frost in
Penzance.