The Times - UK (2021-11-11)

70 Thursday November 11 2021 | the times

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

8

Sunday

13

10

12

12

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

9 PC 0.2 5.9

11 C 5.6 0.0

12 B 2.2 0.0

8 PC 0.4 1.9

14 DU 1.6 **

13 C 0.2 **

8 PC 0.4 4.8

11 C 0.2 **

14 C 0.2 0.1

12 PC 0.4 **

13 DU 0.2 1.0

13 DU 9.2 0.1

14 C 0.6 0.0

10 S 0.2 2.8

9 PC 0.0 0.4

10 PC 0.6 4.7

11 DU 1.4 **

14 C 0.0 0.6

12 M 1.6 4.3

12 PC 0.0 1.7

14 C 0.2 **

13 C 0.0 0.0

11 C 1.6 **

10 S 0.4 3.1

10 C 2.0 **

8 PC 6.4 1.6

9 PC 0.0 4.1

11 R 0.4 2.3

11 C 2.6 **

13 D 0.6 3.3

13 C 0.2 0.0

11 DU 5.4 0.2

13 C 0.0 0.1

12 C 3.8 **

11 PC 0.0 **

12 PC 0.0 1.3

8 PC 5.0 1.9

13 DU 0.6 **

12 R 5.2 **

13 PC 0.2 **

14 PC 0.2 **

13 B 0.4 0.3

11 PC 2.0 0.8

9 D 4.6 **

13 M 0.4 3.1

10 PC 1.6 **

10 S 2.8 2.0

10 C 2.0 1.8

10 PC 0.2 0.0

9 PC 0.2 **

14 D 2.0 1.5

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

Helsinki

Hong Kong

Honolulu

Istanbul

Jerusalem

Johannesburg

Kuala Lumpur

Kyiv

Lanzarote

Las Palmas

Lima

Lisbon

Los Angeles

Luxor

Madeira

Madrid

Malaga

Mallorca

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

20 PC

11 B

16 PC

21 S

27 S

29 B

30 PC

14 R

14 S

** **

11 S

8 S

24 SH

13 S

10 S

8 S

7 PC

24 PC

25 M

30 S

19 C

23 S

14 B

11 DU

21 PC

26 S

29 S

11 B

18 PC

20 PC

7 S

8 S

18 PC

9 B

22 S

28 B

13 PC

27 S

21 B

29 PC

4 S

21 PC

22 PC

17 DU

18 S

18 PC

30 S

23 PC

16 S

20 PC

15 B

22 PC

11 C

22 S

25 B

12 B

31 PC

14 PC

0 S

33 S

5 S

26 SH

22 PC

21 S

20 S

21 R

24 PC

8 PC

10 S

21 S

6 PC

3 B

7 DU

24 C

27 PC

23 S

17 B

24 S

19 DU

7 B

30 PC

28 R

2 SH

10 B

20 T

27 S

24 PC

21 PC

9 B

14 S

10 PC

10 S

23 PC

5 S

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Five days ahead

Staying mostly cloudy

with showery rain and

drizzle, heaviest in

western areas

Today Rather cloudy and damp with increasing amounts of rain from the west. Max 14C (57F), min 6C (43F)

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

06:23 3.8 18:32 3.8

11:41 10.7 --:-- --

03:53 3.2 16:07 3.4

11:31 10.0 --:-- --

10:19 4.8 23:10 4.4

03:21 6.0 16:03 5.7

04:27 3.6 16:40 3.8

09:50 4.5 22:50 4.0

04:35 3.2 16:52 3.3

03:48 3.5 16:37 3.6

03:02 4.8 15:23 5.0

11:06 6.2 23:14 6.3

07:29 4.9 19:49 4.8

03:36 7.9 16:07 8.1

06:01 6.0 18:41 6.4

01:30 2.4 14:58 2.3

10:58 5.9 23:37 5.4

03:49 7.9 16:20 8.0

03:30 5.8 15:56 5.6

09:54 6.0 22:34 5.5

10:32 3.2 23:20 2.8

09:21 4.8 22:04 4.4

04:21 4.3 16:32 4.1

03:38 5.5 16:05 5.2

03:01 4.0 15:26 3.9

11:04 7.9 23:42 7.3

08:37 4.8 20:47 4.8

11:07 1.7 --:-- --

Synoptic situation

A ridge of high pressure will

extend across the British Isles

from central Europe, leading to

a mostly dry day over England,

Wales and Scotland with sunny

intervals after any fog or drizzle

has cleared. Low pressure to

the west of Ireland will push

a complex set of fronts across

Ireland and western Scotland,

bringing thick cloud and

outbreaks of rain.

Highs and lows

24hrs to 5pm yesterday

Warmest: Thorney Island,

West Sussex, 14.9C

Coldest: Balmoral, -0.2C

Wettest: Gogerddan,

Dyfed, 13.6mm

Sunniest: Tibenham, 6.1hrs*

Sun and moon

For Greenwich

Sun rises:

Sun sets:

Moon rises:

Moon sets:

Full moon: November 19

Hours of darkness

Aberdeen

Belfast

Birmingham

Cardiff

Exeter

Glasgow

Liverpool

London

Manchester

Newcastle

Norwich

Penzance

Sheffi eld

16:32-07:14

16:58-07:18

16:50-06:54

16:59-06:56

17:03-06:54

16:46-07:17

16:51-07:02

16:46-06:43

16:48-06:59

16:39-07:02

16:37-06:42

17:13-07:00

16:45-06:56

General situation: Mainly dry with

sunny spells in the north, but fog

lifting to cloud elsewhere with

showery rain.

SW Eng, E Anglia, Midlands, NW Eng,

Wales: Any fog around at fi rst will lift

to leave a mostly dry day with sunny

intervals, but the risk of drizzle in

places from the thickest cloud. Light

and variable winds, becoming moderate

southerly. Maximum 14C (57F),

minimum 7C (45F).

Cen S Eng, SE Eng, London: Overcast

with outbreaks of light rain and drizzle.

Light southerly wind. Maximum

14C (57F), minimum 8C (46F).

E Eng, Channel Is, NE Eng, Moray Firth,

Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dundee,

NE Scotland, N Isles: Any mist or fog

patches clearing to bring a dry day with

some sunshine, although cloud will

tend to increase in most places. Light

to moderate southerly wind. Maximum

11C (52F), minimum 7C (45F).

Republic of Ireland, N Ireland: Fog

patches clearing to bring an overcast

day with outbreaks of rain, turning

heavy in the west in the afternoon.

Moderate increasing to fresh or strong

southerly wind. Maximum 14C (57F),

minimum 8C (46F).

Lake District, SW Scotland, Borders,

Cen Highland, NW Scotland, Glasgow,

Argyll, IoM: Mainly dry with any fog

patches clearing to sunny intervals

before cloud increases to bring rain.

Light increasing to moderate or fresh

southerly wind. Maximum 11C (52F),

minimum 6C (43F).

Tomorrow

14

10

13

14

Saturday

12

11

12

13

Monday

10

9

10

11

Tuesday

10

7

11

10

27

eaks of light ra

10 10

6

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19

9

21

16

7

neyney Sh

11

11

11

12

9

9

8

8

7

8

8 7

13

14

13

12

10

14

11

12

8

11

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Wind speed
(mph)
Temperature
28 (degrees C)
34
Sea state
Calm
Slight
Moderate
Rough
Flood alerts and warnings
At 17:00 on Wednesday there was one
fl ood alert and no warnings in England
and no fl ood alerts or warnings in
Wales or Scotland.
For further information and updates
in England visit fl ood-warning-
information.service.gov.uk, for Wales
naturalresources.wales/fl ooding and
for Scotland SEPA.org.uk
Cold front
Warm front
Occluded front
Trough
LOW
HIGH
LOW
LOW
HIGH
HIGH
LOW
LOW
LOW
HIGH
HIGH
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(^10321032)
1024
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1016
1016
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1008 1008
1008
1000 1000
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992
992
984
Mainly dry over England, Wales and
Scotland with some sunshine, but the
risk of some drizzle from thicker cloud.
Showery rain in Ireland with some
sunny intervals.
Max 14C, min 4C
Cloudy with outbreaks of heavy rain
across northern England, Scotland and
northwest Wales. Sunny spells and
showery rain elsewhere.
Max 14C, min 4C
Dry with sunny spells in Ireland.
Mainly cloudy over England, Wales
and Scotland with showery rain and
drizzle.
Max 13C, min 3C
Mild and rather cloudy with patchy
light rain and drizzle in England and
Wales. A band of cloud and rain will
spread slowly east over Ireland and
Scotland.
Max 12C, min 3C
Mainly dry with rather cloudy skies
and some drizzle in places, but the odd
sunny interval. Dry at fi rst over Ireland
and Scotland before cloud thickens to
bring rain from the west.
Max 12C, min 1C
07.11
16.16
14.01
22.53
12
‘T
he sky is falling down!”
shouted Chicken Licken. And
the chicken’s fear has almost
become fact because the Earth’s
upper atmosphere is contracting and
lowering. At the same time, the
lowest layer of the atmosphere
where our weather happens — the
troposphere — is expanding and
rising higher. This paradox is a truly
global result of climate change.
The troposphere is warming as
greenhouse gases trap more heat,
and so this thin layer of atmosphere
expands and rises higher. A study,
published in Science Advances this
month, found that it had risen an
average of 200m in height over 40
years, from 1980 to 2020, even
though natural events also have an
influence, such as volcanic
eruptions, and El Niño and La Niña.
Chicken Licken’s fear of the sky
falling down plays out in the
atmosphere higher up. The
stratosphere lies above the
troposphere at about 20km to 60km
above the Earth’s surface. As the
troposphere expands it has been
pushing up on the stratosphere, and
yet the stratosphere has been
contracting because it has been
cooling over the past four decades.
Nasa satellites also revealed that
the mesosphere, the high
atmosphere near the edge of space,
is cooling and contracting at about
150m to 200m each decade.
“Down near Earth’s surface, the
atmosphere is thick,” said Dr James
Russell, co-director of the Center for
Atmospheric Sciences at Hampton
University, Virginia. “Carbon
dioxide traps heat just like a quilt
traps your body heat.”
In the lower atmosphere there are
plenty of gas molecules, so they
easily trap and transfer Earth’s heat
between each other, keeping the
atmosphere warm. But when Earth’s
heat makes it higher up, to the
thinner upper atmosphere, there are
fewer gas molecules there and any
heat captured by carbon dioxide
soon escapes into space. Increases in
greenhouses gases like carbon
dioxide mean more heat is lost to
space and it cools. When air cools it
contracts, much like a balloon
shrinking when it is put in a freezer.
Weather Eye
Paul Simons