Perhaps you should move to Warden Bay on the good old Isle-of-Sheppey in
Kent. It's wall to wall blue skies all the way down here. I am still in
agony after the weekends sunburn!!

Shaun Pudwell.


"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...
It's cloudy again. 6 okta CuSc.

Here in the Chilterns this fine spell has, Monday apart, been
much cloudier than the TV forecasts have given credit for.
It last rained on the 8th. Since then the daily sunshine totals
have been:
9th nil
10th 5.6
11th 0.1
12th 0.5
13th 4.7
14th 7.8
15th 6.4
16th 7.6
17th 11.8

(These figures are from a Campbell-Stokes recorder
which over-records sunshine on days of broken cloud)

It doesn't actually seem much different in London, as
the following figures from Hampstead (electronic recorder)
indicate:

9th 1.2
10th 6.4
11th 0.1
12th 0.3
13th 5.1
14th 7.7
15th 7.2
16th 7.7
17th 10.1

This morning's forecast (viewed, not heard)
seemed to indicate unbroken sunshine, which
it ain't.

Philip Eden

I saw a very small patch of Cirrus earlier and that's all. Temp today has
been 22.3 We have been getting sea breezes set in on most afternoons though
and that's reflected in the current temp of 19.3

Shaun Pudwell.
2M ASL, Warden Bay, Isle-of-Sheppey, North Kent.

"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
...
The sunshines getting almost boring here! 4th consecutive day of
virtually
unbroken sunshine, 12th consecutive completely dry day. I know there are
patches of sea-fog, but they are very localised.

Also very warm for west Cornwall in May (16th max 23.2, 17th 23.5, and
today has already reached 23.1 - at 13:50). There has been very little sea
breeze, hence the high temperatures. Went in the sea today (with a
wet-suit!) and was surprised how warm in felt. The water temperature close
in clearly being a good 2 degrees higher than the 12.5 degrees shown for
the
west Cornwall coast. There were still quite a few in the sea at Sennen
(near
Land's End) at 8pm yesterday.


Graham
Penzance
Penzance Weather www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/weather.html

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...
It's cloudy again. 6 okta CuSc.

Here in the Chilterns this fine spell has, Monday apart, been
much cloudier than the TV forecasts have given credit for.
It last rained on the 8th. Since then the daily sunshine totals
have been:
9th nil
10th 5.6
11th 0.1
12th 0.5
13th 4.7
14th 7.8
15th 6.4
16th 7.6
17th 11.8

(These figures are from a Campbell-Stokes recorder
which over-records sunshine on days of broken cloud)

It doesn't actually seem much different in London, as
the following figures from Hampstead (electronic recorder)
indicate:

9th 1.2
10th 6.4
11th 0.1
12th 0.3
13th 5.1
14th 7.7
15th 7.2
16th 7.7
17th 10.1

This morning's forecast (viewed, not heard)
seemed to indicate unbroken sunshine, which
it ain't.

Philip Eden

Well I can certainly say, that since I moved here 4 years ago, I have never
seen so much sunshine. It can even be raining in places as near as
Sheerness 9 miles away, yet be sunny here. Those cliffs work wonders for
this side of the island don't they!

Shaun Pudwell.


"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...

"Shaun Pudwell" wrote in message
...
Perhaps you should move to Warden Bay on the good old
Isle-of-Sheppey in
Kent. It's wall to wall blue skies all the way down here. I am
still in
agony after the weekends sunburn!!

Sounds like a good reason not to ...:-) Actually, I remember
a holiday on Sheppey, in a tiny caravan at Minster when I
was nine. I still remember the wonderful rocky cliffs and
the fantastic sandy beach ...

Philip Eden

It's cloudy again. 6 okta CuSc.

Here in the Chilterns this fine spell has, Monday apart, been
much cloudier than the TV forecasts have given credit for.
It last rained on the 8th. Since then the daily sunshine totals
have been:
9th nil
10th 5.6
11th 0.1
12th 0.5
13th 4.7
14th 7.8
15th 6.4
16th 7.6
17th 11.8

(These figures are from a Campbell-Stokes recorder
which over-records sunshine on days of broken cloud)

It doesn't actually seem much different in London, as
the following figures from Hampstead (electronic recorder)
indicate:

9th 1.2
10th 6.4
11th 0.1
12th 0.3
13th 5.1
14th 7.7
15th 7.2
16th 7.7
17th 10.1

This morning's forecast (viewed, not heard)
seemed to indicate unbroken sunshine, which
it ain't.

Philip Eden

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...
It's cloudy again. 6 okta CuSc.

snip
This morning's forecast (viewed, not heard)
seemed to indicate unbroken sunshine, which
it ain't.


.... indeed, I winced yesterday evening when the local (BBC South)
presenter used the dread phrase:...
"wall-to-wall-sunshine-from-the-word-go". It IS a pleasant enough day
(as on recent days), but a passing mention of cloud building from time
to time, or 'not unbroken sunshine' etc., might not have gone amiss.

Martin.

The sunshines getting almost boring here! 4th consecutive day of virtually
unbroken sunshine, 12th consecutive completely dry day. I know there are
patches of sea-fog, but they are very localised.

Also very warm for west Cornwall in May (16th max 23.2, 17th 23.5, and
today has already reached 23.1 - at 13:50). There has been very little sea
breeze, hence the high temperatures. Went in the sea today (with a
wet-suit!) and was surprised how warm in felt. The water temperature close
in clearly being a good 2 degrees higher than the 12.5 degrees shown for the
west Cornwall coast. There were still quite a few in the sea at Sennen (near
Land's End) at 8pm yesterday.


Graham
Penzance
Penzance Weather www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/weather.html

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...
It's cloudy again. 6 okta CuSc.

Here in the Chilterns this fine spell has, Monday apart, been
much cloudier than the TV forecasts have given credit for.
It last rained on the 8th. Since then the daily sunshine totals
have been:
9th nil
10th 5.6
11th 0.1
12th 0.5
13th 4.7
14th 7.8
15th 6.4
16th 7.6
17th 11.8

(These figures are from a Campbell-Stokes recorder
which over-records sunshine on days of broken cloud)

It doesn't actually seem much different in London, as
the following figures from Hampstead (electronic recorder)
indicate:

9th 1.2
10th 6.4
11th 0.1
12th 0.3
13th 5.1
14th 7.7
15th 7.2
16th 7.7
17th 10.1

This morning's forecast (viewed, not heard)
seemed to indicate unbroken sunshine, which
it ain't.

Philip Eden

"Shaun Pudwell" wrote in message
...
Perhaps you should move to Warden Bay on the good old
Isle-of-Sheppey in
Kent. It's wall to wall blue skies all the way down here. I am
still in
agony after the weekends sunburn!!

Sounds like a good reason not to ...:-) Actually, I remember
a holiday on Sheppey, in a tiny caravan at Minster when I
was nine. I still remember the wonderful rocky cliffs and
the fantastic sandy beach ...

Philip Eden

Funnily enough, Philip, I also had a holiday there when I was about 12 (that
would have been ca 1950). Was the beached Sunderland flying boat still there
when you had your visit?. It was near Leysdown if my memory serves me.

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Satellite images at:
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html




"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...

"Shaun Pudwell" wrote in message
...
Perhaps you should move to Warden Bay on the good old
Isle-of-Sheppey in
Kent. It's wall to wall blue skies all the way down here. I am
still in
agony after the weekends sunburn!!

Sounds like a good reason not to ...:-) Actually, I remember
a holiday on Sheppey, in a tiny caravan at Minster when I
was nine. I still remember the wonderful rocky cliffs and
the fantastic sandy beach ...

Philip Eden

"Bernard Burton" wrote in
message ...
Funnily enough, Philip, I also had a holiday there when I was
about 12 (that
would have been ca 1950). Was the beached Sunderland flying boat
still there
when you had your visit?. It was near Leysdown if my memory serves
me.

I don't remember it Bernard. It was ten years later, so it's
unlikely that it still would have been there. 1960 was an excellent
summer to enjoy the local geology in all its glory.

Philip Eden