Some notable changes now though:-

High pressure has now lost all control, pressure 1007mb and falling.

It's still dry (ignore the rainfall radar, little if any is reaching the ground) & cloudy. The cloud is now medium/high level frontal cloud, rather attractive actually with lumpy dense patches and glimpses of bluish sky. The visibility has improved, the horizon has made a return.


It's windy, recent gust to 27mph in Penzance, well over 35mph at Land's End & on Scilly. The well predicted F5 has arrived, and the wind is still increasing.

One thing that hasn't changed is the inherent warmth of the air 18.4C @ 08:50. I note there's some clear skies not far to the SW, which may push up this far for the afternoon

Graham
Penzance

A bright, dry, warm & very windy afternoon. 43mph gust at Land's End. brilliant conditions for the Marazion kite surfers.

Up on the Island at St Ives it's currently (16:15) gusting to 50mph, it's cloudy and it's still 20C! (According to the MetO, the sea state at Porthminster, St Ives facing directly into a good F6, is slight http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/w...cast/gbujekhtw .) I'd be interesting to see the programming that came to that conclusion. At Porthcurno, with some shelter from Logan Rock, an Atlantic swell is visible. http://www.minack.com/webcams.htm . Quite confused seas at the moment with the strong easterly wind against a 3ft swell from the west.

In Penzance sun often visible through the frontal cloud, but rarely strong enough to give distinct shadows. Despite this and the F5-6 onshore wind it still reached 21.2C. This air really is warm.

Not even 1 drop of rain in the gauge today, still only 0.9mm this month, all on 1st.

Graham
Penzance
http://penzanceweather.atspace.com/weather.html