Just been looking back at maximum temperatures for November and today's
16.1C is nothing out of the ordinary for November as a month though
coming so late in the month makes it rather more notable.

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Nick Gardner


It's the combination of factors (source of air, wind strength, prolonged sunshine etc.) that have made the last couple of days so exceptional, not just the temperature.

Looking at my warmest last 10 days of NOvember (24 years of records.

30/11/01 16.0C - Wind SW
29/11/01 14.8C - SW
26/11/02 14.7C - SW
24/11/01 14.7C - W
05/12/07 14.7C - SW
06/12/07 14.6C - SW
28/11/01 14.6C - W

You get the idea, in fact there has been no day after 15th NOvember, in the last 24 years, when the temperature has exceeded 13C during an easterly wind. Yet on Friday, in a near gale due easterly, gusting well over 40mph in exposed spots (50mph at St. Ives) it reached 14.8C, completely smashing the easterly record for this time of year.

Hence my interest in the source of the air.

Yesterday we lost the wind almost completely hence the even higher temperatures.

Graham
Penzance