On 19/06/2017 04:31, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Sunday, 18 June 2017 22:43:02 UTC+1, wrote:
From the Telegraph today:

"Unusual levels of UV are also being recorded in the UK at the moment - with the strength of the UV in some spots being as high as that in Cyprus and Gibraltar."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...-temperatures/

Can anybody shed any light (ouch) on this ? It makes no sense to me.

It could make sense in that Britain could be under an area of low ozone concentration but I've no idea whether it actually is or not. UV levels depend on the altitude of the sun among other things so it could be just that. Maybe it's just a generic warning because it's sunny - stock footage so to speak.

I think they mean that the air is fairly clean and the sun almost as
high in the sky as it ever gets coming up to solstice. UV index online at:

https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/uv-...on=daily_plots

Forecast and actual at Uccle, RMI Belgium

http://ozone.meteo.be/meteo/view/en/...+at+Uccle.html

I was not terribly amused to read that current temperatures are 10°C (50°F) above average.

They say some funny things in an attempt to popularise the weather
reports. It is rather warm at night at the moment even in our very thick
walled cool house the heat ingress is starting to become an issue.

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Regards,
Martin Brown