Took off from lands end in a brief gap in cliff top sea mist Sat morn. Landed on Scilly in warm calm sunny conditions to the south of the front. Largely sunn y ever since with remarkably little wind for Scill y. Ideal for boating swimming walking snorkeling

Mins around 13 max 17 or 18, in the prolonged strong sunshine its glorious. Very brown & dry out here.

Graham
Penzance

On 15/06/2015 16:52, Graham Easterling wrote:
Took off from lands end in a brief gap in cliff top sea mist Sat morn. Landed on Scilly in warm calm sunny conditions to the south of the front. Largely sunn y ever since with remarkably little wind for Scill y. Ideal for boating swimming walking snorkeling
Mins around 13 max 17 or 18, in the prolonged strong sunshine its glorious. Very brown & dry out here.

Aye, lovely on Scilly and lovely here too again today.

5th consecutive day with a temperature 20C and virtually unbroken
sunshine all day. Mind you, it was a rather cool start with a minimum of
just 7.8C.

A pleasant sea breeze started up at 12:15 knocking the temperature back
a little but with a DP of between 13C & 14C for the afternoon, it felt
reasonably warm.

UV very high again with 8.7. Might get even higher later this week with
possibly my first +9 of the summer.

I see that on St Martin's, Scilly, the UV reached 9.2 today. Don't get
too burnt Graham!

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 7:34:06 PM UTC+1, Nick Gardner wrote:
On 15/06/2015 16:52, Graham Easterling wrote:
Took off from lands end in a brief gap in cliff top sea mist Sat morn. Landed on Scilly in warm calm sunny conditions to the south of the front. Largely sunn y ever since with remarkably little wind for Scill y. Ideal for boating swimming walking snorkeling
Mins around 13 max 17 or 18, in the prolonged strong sunshine its glorious. Very brown & dry out here.

Aye, lovely on Scilly and lovely here too again today.

5th consecutive day with a temperature 20C and virtually unbroken
sunshine all day. Mind you, it was a rather cool start with a minimum of
just 7.8C.

A pleasant sea breeze started up at 12:15 knocking the temperature back
a little but with a DP of between 13C & 14C for the afternoon, it felt
reasonably warm.

UV very high again with 8.7. Might get even higher later this week with
possibly my first +9 of the summer.

I see that on St Martin's, Scilly, the UV reached 9.2 today. Don't get
too burnt Graham!

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk
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Excellent here too until 2 pm when the northerly above the boundary layer brought in Dartmoor cloud.
Will has a lot to answer for.
:-)

http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...512&STNM=03808

Max 20.2 C
Min 9.6 C

Len
Wembury, SW Devon coast

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Just got back from a baking St Agnes. UV of 10.4 on St martins! Max 20.0 . That might not sound hot but in strong J June sun no wind and fairly high humidity it certainly felt it. Just a little semi transparent Sc to boost the UV to record levels.

No swell at all off the western rocks - quite exceptional.

Time to cool off in strong the ocean.


Graham
Penzance

Ignore strong in the last sentence of me post.

Forgot to mention met a weather nut. Only 1.2mm on St Agnes sinc e 1 June. Cliffs very dry.

Graham

On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 4:52:02 PM UTC+1, Graham Easterling wrote:
Took off from lands end in a brief gap in cliff top sea mist Sat morn. Landed on Scilly in warm calm sunny conditions to the south of the front. Largely sunn y ever since with remarkably little wind for Scill y. Ideal for boating swimming walking snorkeling

Mins around 13 max 17 or 18, in the prolonged strong sunshine its glorious. Very brown & dry out here.

Graham
Penzance

Just how reliable is that UV sensor at St Martins? I say that because using the data from DEFRA realtime UV monitoring, Camborne only managed an index max of 7.6, today and even way down south at Gibraltar it only reached 8.3, where, incidentally, it has yet to reach 10.0 this year.

Dick Lovett

Camborne had some Cu development today. This reduces UV whilst the thin Sc out to sea tends to increase it. When both locations have clear blue skies the readings are similar though with Camborne around 1 lower in summer. I believe this is down to the reflection off the surrounding sea on St Martins

Graham

On 16/06/2015 16:48, wrote:
Just how reliable is that UV sensor at St Martins? I say that because using the data from DEFRA realtime UV monitoring, Camborne only managed an index max of 7.6, today and even way down south at Gibraltar it only reached 8.3, where, incidentally, it has yet to reach 10.0 this year.

I recorded a maximum UV today of 7.1, the lowest reading since the 12th.
The reason was that between midday and 14:40 it was rather cloudy and
the 7.1 occurred at 14:45.

Yesterday the UV reached 8.7 at 13:20. By 14:40 it was 7.3 which is
comparable with today. Therefore the UV, given clearer conditions would
probably have been around 8.5.

Looking at the satellite picture, Camborne may have been similarly
affected by cloud for a few hours around high sun and thus read lower
than the UV would otherwise have been.

The Isles of Scilly are renowned for having a very high UV. I went there
(in the days of non-digital SLRs - 1995 I think) and all the photos I
took during the middle part of the day had a blue(ish) tinge to them
with many of the colours 'washed-out' yet the exposure was correct.
Possibly a skylight filter would have helped but my only conclusion was
that the UV must have been very high.

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk