On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:17:08 +0100, "ron button"
wrote:

Stephen Burt of COL and Philip Eden have done some work on this I think so I
would not be so presumptious as to question their findings of course .

My maxima, when the sun is shining (ho, ho), are always higher than I
might expect. This was discussed here some years ago and I think Philip
Eden suggested that this was due to the West of Scotland Walled Garden
Effect. We overlook Loch Long which means that we're near the bottom of
a trench. The theory was that this trapped the warm air, similar to the
air in a walled garden, which gave rise to these elevated temperatures.

The maximum I recorded last week was 9.3°C in bright sunshine and an
average wind speed of 4 mph. This was three or four degrees higher than
that recorded at Glasgow Bishopton.

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Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
By Loch Long, twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.co.uk/weather