The Times - UK (2020-09-05)

the times | Saturday September 5 2020 1GM 77

We a t h e r

Channel Islands

NORTH

SEA

CHANNEL

IRISH

SEA

ATLANTIC

OCEAN

Aberdeen

Glasgow

Edinburgh

Carlisle

Newcastle

York

Manchester

Liverpool

Hull

Llandudno

Shrewsbury

Nottingham

Sheffield

Norwich

Cambridge

Oxford

Bristol

Swansea

Cardiff

Plymouth

Exeter

Southampton

Brighton

London

Londonderry

Belfast

Galway

Dublin

Cork

Birmingham

CELTIC

SEA

Orkney Shetland

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Tuesday

24

17

20

22

Aberdeen

Aberporth

Anglesey

Aviemore

Barnstaple

Bedford

Belfast

Birmingham

Bournemouth

Bridlington

Bristol

Camborne

Cardiff

Edinburgh

Eskdalemuir

Glasgow

Hereford

Herstmonceux

Ipswich

Isle of Man

Isle of Wight

Jersey

Keswick

Kinloss

Leeds

Lerwick

Leuchars

Lincoln

Liverpool

London

Lyneham

Manchester

Margate

Milford Haven

Newcastle

Nottingham

Orkney

Oxford

Plymouth

Portland

Scilly, St Mary’s

Shoreham

Shrewsbury

Snowdonia

Southend

South Uist

Stornoway

Tiree

Whitehaven

Wick

Yeovilton

Around Britain

Key: b=bright, c=cloud, d=drizzle, pc=partly cloudy

du=dull, f=fair, fg=fog, h=hail, m=mist, r=rain,

sh=showers, sl=sleet, sn=snow, s=sun, t=thunder

*=previous day **=data not available

Temp C Rain mm Sun hr*

midday yesterday 24 hrs to 5pm yesterday

Noon today

15 C 0.0 8.5

15 PC 0.0 7.2

15 PC 0.0 3.3

13 PC 1.8 5.6

17 C 0.3 **

17 PC 0.0 **

15 PC 2.0 4.6

16 PC 0.0 **

18 C 0.8 0.0

16 PC 0.0 **

17 C 0.0 0.3

17 B 0.0 2.0

17 PC 0.0 0.0

15 PC 4.2 5.5

13 PC 1.8 1.4

15 B 3.2 4.8

16 C 0.0 **

18 C 0.6 0.0

17 PC 0.2 0.3

16 PC 0.0 3.5

19 PC 0.2 **

18 C 0.6 0.0

14 C 0.2 **

15 C 0.6 9.3

14 PC 0.4 **

13 B 2.4 1.9

17 PC 0.6 6.8

17 PC 0.0 4.7

16 PC 0.0 **

20 C 1.4 0.0

14 B 0.0 0.1

15 C 0.0 2.9

18 C 0.0 0.4

16 C 0.0 **

13 PC 1.4 **

16 PC 0.0 4.1

15 S 2.4 5.8

17 B 0.0 **

17 C 0.0 **

18 C 0.2 **

** ** ** **

18 PC 0.0 0.0

16 PC 0.0 5.8

13 C 0.0 **

19 PC 1.2 1.6

14 PC 3.0 **

13 PC 3.8 4.3

15 PC 0.4 7.6

13 C 1.0 1.2

15 PC 0.4 **

15 D 0.2 0.3

The world

All readings local midday yesterday

Alicante

Amsterdam

Athens

Auckland

Bahrain

Bangkok

Barbados

Barcelona

Beijing

Beirut

Belgrade

Berlin

Bermuda

Bordeaux

Brussels

Bucharest

Budapest

Buenos Aires

Cairo

Calcutta

Canberra

Cape Town

Chicago

Copenhagen

Corfu

Delhi

Dubai

Dublin

Faro

Florence

Frankfurt

Geneva

Gibraltar

Harare

Helsinki

Hong Kong

Honolulu

Istanbul

Jerusalem

Johannesburg

Kuala Lumpur

Lanzarote

Las Palmas

Lima

Lisbon

Los Angeles

Luxor

Madeira

Madrid

Mallorca

Malaga

Malta

Melbourne

Mexico City

Miami

Milan

Mombasa

Montreal

Moscow

Mumbai

Munich

Nairobi

Naples

New Orleans

New York

Nice

Nicosia

Oslo

Paris

Perth

Prague

Reykjavik

Riga

Rio de Janeiro

Riyadh

Rome

San Francisco

Santiago

São Paulo

Seoul

Seychelles

Singapore

St Petersburg

Stockholm

Sydney

Tel Aviv

Tenerife

Tokyo

Vancouver

Venice

Vienna

Warsaw

Washington

Zurich

27 PC

1 9 PC

33 PC

11 S

36 S

3 2 PC

28 SH

2 7 PC

30 S

31 M

2 4 PC

20 PC

28 SH

30 S

2 0 PC

1 8 SH

24 S

1 1 B

3 2 PC

33 S

17 S

18 PC

30 DU

19 C

3 2 PC

32 S

41 S

16 B

28 S

31 S

26 S

24 S

2 4 B

** **

17 B

30 B

30 PC

28 PC

36 S

23 S

29 SH

24 S

26 PC

15 DU

32 S

23 PC

39 S

26 PC

29 S

29 PC

27 S

28 PC

15 B

26 PC

33 B

26 S

27 B

2 2 C

20 S

32 S

24 S

25 B

30 S

33 S

29 PC

26 S

37 S

17 B

2 7 PC

20 B

23 PC

9 PC

2 0 PC

29 S

42 S

28 S

19 PC

16 S

27 S

25 PC

28 PC

29 SH

20 PC

16 B

17 R

36 S

27 PC

3 4 PC

20 PC

24 S

23 PC

23 PC

31 B

24 S

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by Weatherquestt

Five days ahead

Mainly dry and warm

with sunny spells in the

south, but breezy and

unsettled farther north

Today Plenty of warm sunshine, but the chance of a few showers. Max 18C (64F), min 3C (37F)

Tides

Tidal predictions.

Heights in metres

Today Ht Ht

Aberdeen

Avonmouth

Belfast

Cardiff

Devonport

Dover

Dublin

Falmouth

Greenock

Harwich

Holyhead

Hull

Leith

Liverpool

London Bridge

Lowestoft

Milford Haven

Morecambe

Newhaven

Newquay

Oban

Penzance

Portsmouth

Shoreham

Southampton

Swansea

Tees

Weymouth

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1 0:02 12. 5 22:1 5 12. 5

0 1:4 0 3.4 14: 00 3.2

0 9:4 6 11.7 22:00 11. 8

0 8:28 5.2 2 0 :37 5.3

0 1:44 6 .4 13:57 6. 6

0 1:48 4.0 14:18 3.7

0 8: 0 2 5. 0 20 :13 5.1

0 3:03 3.5 15:19 3.2

0 2:28 3. 9 14:32 3. 9

0 0:43 5. 6 13:04 5.2

0 8:52 7.4 21:1 6 6. 9

0 5:11 5.4 17:35 5.2

0 1:42 9.2 14:01 8.8

0 4:37 6 .9 1 6 :4 6 6. 9

0 0:12 2.4 12:05 2. 6

0 8:53 6. 6 21:09 6 .8

0 1:42 9.3 14:00 8. 9

0 1:36 6.5 13:54 6.6

0 7:44 6. 6 20:00 6 .8

0 8:16 3.8 20:37 4. 0

0 7:17 5.2 19:33 5.4

0 1:55 4.5 14:26 4.6

0 1:51 6 .0 14:09 6 .1

0 0:59 4.2 13:58 4.4

0 9:01 9.0 21:1 6 9.1

06 :08 5.4 18:39 5.1

0 9:33 2.0 21:48 2. 0

Synoptic situation

A weak area of high pressure

centred just to the north of

the Azores will ridge into

southwestern Britain and

Ireland, bringing some dry and

sunny conditions. An area of

low pressure over Scandinavia

will push a trough and a weak

occluded front across the rest

of the British Isles, leading to

the risk of showers spreading

from northwest to southeast.

Highs and lows

24hrs to 5pm yesterday

Warmest: Frittenden,

Kent, 21.1C

Coldest: Cairngorm, 2. 6 C

Wettest: Achnagart,

Inverness-shire, 28.0mm

Sunniest: Kinloss, 9.3hrs*

Sun and moon

For Greenwich

Sun rises:

Sun sets:

Moon rises:

Moon sets:

Third quarter: September 1 0

Hours of darkness

Aberdeen

Belfast

Birmingham

Cardiff

Exeter

Glasgow

Liverpool

London

Manchester

Newcastle

Norwich

Penzance

Sheffi eld

20:24-0 5 : 51

20:35-0 6 :1 1

20:1 6 -0 5 : 57

20:19-0 6 :0 4

20 :2 0 - 06 : 06

20:30-0 6 :0 2

20 :21- 06 : 01

20:07-05:5 2

20:18-0 5 : 57

20:18-05:5 3

20:03-0 5 :4 4

20:27-0 6 :1 5

20:1 5 -0 5 : 55

General situation: Mainly dry and ld

sunny in the south, but cloudier with

scattered showers over northern areas.

Cen S Eng, SE Eng, Channel Is, London:

Dry and sunny in the morning, but

cloud increasing during the afternoon.

Light to moderate northwesterly wind.

MaximumMaximum 18C (64F) minimum 18C (64F), minimum

7 C (45F).

Republic of Ireland, Wales, SW Eng:

Most of the day will be dry with sunny

spells, but the risk of a few showers

moving in from the northwest at

times. Light to moderate northwesterly

wind. Maximum 18C (64F),

minimum 8C (46F).

Moray Firth, NE Scotland, N Isles,

NW Scotland: Rather cloudy and

blustery with showery rain and a few

sunny intervals. Moderate to fresh

northwesterlynorthwesterly wind strong around the wind, strong around the

coast. Maximum 12C (54F),

minimum 5C (41F).

Cen N Eng, NW Eng, SW Scotland,

IoM, Lake District, N Ireland: Some

sunshine, but most of the time it

will be cloudy with showery rain,

heavy at times. Moderate to fresh

northwesterly wind. Maximum

1 6C (61F), minimum 7C (45F).

E Anglia, E Eng, Midlands, NE Eng,

Borders, Edinburgh & Dundee, Argyll,

Cen Highland, Aberdeen, Glasgow: Dry

andand mainly sunny in the morning then mainly sunny in the morning, then

cloud increasing to bring the risk of

a few showers during the afternoon.

Light to moderate northwesterly wind.

Maximum 18C (64F), minimum

3 C (37F).

Tomorrow

18

16

18

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Monday

20

16

18

20

Wednesday

21

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15

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16

19

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Temperature

28 (degrees C)

3434

Sea stateSSaa aaee

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Slight

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Rough

Flood alerts and warnings

At 17:00 on Friday there were no fl ood

alerts or warnings in England, Wales

or Scotland.

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in England visit fl ood-warning-

information.service.gov.uk, for Wales

naturalresources.wales/fl ooding and

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a few sunny intervals over Ireland,

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06 .20

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21. 08
    10 .34 Sun

15

S

eptember can’t make up its

mind whether it is in

summer or autumn. This

weekend the weather will

show its autumnal character

in a chill breeze and some outbreaks

of showers but next week will bring

some warm, summery sunshine, at

least in the southern half of Britain.

The poet and Jesuit priest Gerard

Manley Hopkins wrote in his 1877

sonnet Hurrahing in Harvest:

“Summer ends now; now, barbarous

in beauty, the stooks arise/ Around;

up above, what wind-walks! what

lovely behaviour/ Of silk-sack

clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier/

Meal-drift moulded ever and melted

across skies?”

Hopkins was extolling the beauty

of the autumn landscape of the Vale

of Clwyd, and he said the sonnet was

“the outcome of half an hour of

extreme enthusiasm as I walked

home alone one day from fishing in

the Elwy”. He paints an evocative

picture of the open sky, the “wind-

walks” through which the clouds

sweep. The white clouds are smooth

and shiny sacks of silk, their shapes

shifting in the sky like “meal-drift”,

the white dust in the air of mills

where grain was ground into flour.

Although there will be gales in

Scotland at the start of next week,

winds will be lighter farther south

and temperatures will start to rise as

high pressure begins to nudge in

from the southwest. By Tuesday a

weather front will stretch south

from Iceland to the sub-tropical seas

of the Atlantic. A southwesterly

breeze will carry that warm, humid

air, which will unleash heavy rain

when it hits the west of Scotland. For

much of England and Wales it will

be dry with temperatures climbing

as high as 25C in sunshine, giving a

taste of summer again that could

last into Wednesday and Thursday.

Perhaps it was spells of warm

autumnal weather like this that

inspired William Wordsworth, who

wrote in his poem September, 1819:

“Departing summer hath assumed/

An aspect tenderly illumed,/ The

gentlest look of spring;/ That calls

from yonder leafy shade/ Unfaded,

yet prepared to fade,/ A timely

carolling.”

Weather Eye

Paul Simons