Nick wrote:
On May 30, 8:37 pm, "Colin Youngs" wrote:
Brussels on Monday 30th May 2011

Sunny and very warm until mid-afternoon. Gradual increase in cloud at all
levels later in the afternoon and it was mostly cloudy by 18.00 local time.
Light SE to S breeze veered SSW and increased to moderate during the
afternoon. Wind veered NW in the early evening with a sharp fall in
temperature after 18.00.

Brussels Uccle 28.3°C - overnight minimum 11.4°C
Brussels Airport 29.2°C - overnight minimum 10.4°C

Brussels Airport http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/EBBR.html

Brussels Uccle Graphshttp://deus.irceline.be/~celinair/meteo/temporal_evol.php?lan=nl&sta=...

Rainfall radar http://www.buienradar.nl/h.aspx?jaar...t=loop24uur1x1

OGIMET monthly summary for Brussels Uccle http://tinyurl.com/3cz6otz

Webcam Grand-Place http://www.brussels.be/artdet.cfm?id=4664&FMT=18

Webcam Uccle http://www.meteo.be/meteo/view/en/15...cam+Uccle.html

Colin Youngs
Brussels

29C!! Amazing that somewhere really just over the Channel, with no
particular barrier to the Atlantic in terms of high mountains etc, is
getting such extraordinarily high temperatures in what seems a bog
standard Wly setup and still in May. Given how often Brussels seems to
record temperatures well in excess of SE England, it's also surprising
that the mean maxima for Brussels in summer seem no higher than
London. I take it when it gets cool in summer it gets *really* cool,
to balance things out.

With the summer heat, winter snow, and impressive thunderstorms places
a little further away still get (S Germany - based on 3 visits), think
I'm living the wrong side of the channel :-)

Nick
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I think Colin came to that conclusion a while ago ;-)