The Times - UK (2022-05-02)

the times | Monday May 2 2022 45

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

4

Thursday

19

16

17

18

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

12 PC 1.2 3.0

10 PC 5.2 0.3

10 R 17.6 0.4

17 S 3.0 0.0

10 R 8.6 **

12 PC 0.0 **

11 DU 13.6 0.0

10 R 0.0 **

10 R 3.2 11.3

10 PC 0.2 **

10 PC 3.6 8.1

11 PC 4.2 1.0

10 PC 8.8 5.4

15 PC 1.6 2.6

10 PC 11.2 4.5

15 PC 3.4 1.9

11 PC 2.8 **

15 PC 0.0 2.8

15 PC 0.0 10.1

11 PC 19.2 0.0

11 R 0.4 **

16 PC 0.0 1.9

** ** 4.0 **

13 PC 2.6 0.0

10 PC 2.8 **

9 PC 0.2 0.0

12 PC 1.6 3.4

12 PC 0.0 11.3

12 PC 4.6 **

14 PC 0.0 11.6

10 PC 1.2 2.1

13 PC 3.8 7.7

** ** 0.0 0.0

9 PC 13.0 **

13 PC 7.8 **

10 PC 0.0 2.7

9 M 0.6 0.0

11 R 0.0 **

12 R 2.4 **

10 R 2.8 **

13 PC 0.8 **

15 PC 0.6 6.9

11 R 3.0 8.5

10 D 5.6 **

16 PC 0.0 7.3

14 R 1.2 **

12 PC 1.8 0.0

13 PC 3.0 0.0

10 PC 4.4 1.5

9 PC 0.6 **

10 R 2.6 10.0

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

21 PC

14 PC

20 PC

19 PC

32 PC

30 PC

29 PC

20 PC

26 PC

22 M

21 PC

15 PC

19 PC

21 PC

14 PC

20 PC

20 PC

14 PC

** PC

32 S

15 PC

21 PC

19 PC

14 PC

22 PC

36 S

31 PC

10 R

22 PC

20 PC

16 PC

15 PC

25 PC

12 SH

20 SH

29 PC

18 PC

23 PC

18 PC

31 SH

** **

26 PC

24 PC

16 PC

18 PC

21 PC

36 PC

23 PC

22 PC

28 PC

21 PC

17 PC

17 PC

27 PC

28 PC

20 PC

30 PC

12 PC

11 PC

33 S

12 PC

24 PC

20 PC

28 PC

16 PC

19 PC

27 PC

12 PC

15 PC

24 PC

16 PC

7 PC

8 R

23 M

37 PC

17 PC

17 PC

19 PC

19 PC

16 PC

31 PC

31 SH

9 PC

10 PC

20 PC

23 PC

26 PC

15 SH

13 PC

21 PC

13 SH

18 PC

18 PC

13 PC

The Times weather

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by Weatherquest

Five days ahead

Generally unsettled with

a mixture of sunny spells,

showers and perhaps

longer spells of rain

Today Early fog clearing to leave a rather cloudy day with a scattering of showers. Max 17C (63F), min -1C (30F)

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

03:02 4.1 15:14 4.1

09:06 13.0 21:19 12.8

13:06 3.3 --:-- --

08:56 12.0 21:06 11.9

07:32 5.3 19:45 5.3

13:08 6.5 --:-- --

--:-- -- --:-- --

07:01 5.0 19:16 5.0

02:06 3.3 14:30 3.3

01:20 3.9 13:44 3.9

12:08 5.4 00:26 5.3

08:06 7.0 20:19 7.2

04:21 5.3 16:36 5.3

12:56 9.1 --:-- --

03:31 7.1 15:51 6.9

11:24 2.4 23:33 2.4

08:00 6.8 20:14 6.7

13:06 9.0 --:-- --

13:01 6.5 --:-- --

06:50 6.7 19:04 6.6

07:24 3.9 19:31 3.9

06:24 5.4 18:40 5.3

01:02 4.6 13:21 4.5

13:18 6.0 --:-- --

02:16 4.4 12:56 4.2

08:09 9.3 20:20 9.2

05:25 5.3 17:35 5.3

08:41 2.1 20:52 2.1

Synoptic situation

A slack pressure pattern across

Britain and Ireland will lead to

a rather cloudy day with many

places staying largely dry with

some bright or sunny intervals.

A weak cold front will drift

southwards across Britain and

help to generate a scattering

of showers, particularly across

northern England. An occluded

front near Ireland will produce

showers there.

Highs and lows

24hrs to 5pm yesterday

Warmest: Jersey, 16.9C

Coldest: Great Dun Fell, 2.2C

Wettest: Port Ellen,

Argyll, 20.6mm

Sunniest: Wittering,

Cambridgeshire, 11.6hrs*

Sun and moon

For Greenwich

Sun rises:

Sun sets:

Moon rises:

Moon sets:

First quarter: May 9th

Hours of darkness

Aberdeen

Belfast

Birmingham

Cardiff

Exeter

Glasgow

Liverpool

London

Manchester

Newcastle

Norwich

Penzance

Sheffi eld

21:23-04:44

21:28-05:10

21:05-05:02

21:06-05:10

21:05-05:14

21:27-04:58

21:12-05:03

20:54-04:58

21:09-04:59

21:12-04:51

20:52-04:48

21:12-05:24

21:06-04:57

General situation: Mist and fog patches

will clear at fi rst to leave a rather

cloudy day with a mixture of bright

intervals and scattered showers.

London, SE Eng, Cen S Eng, E Anglia,

E Mids, W Mids, N Wales: Early mist

and fog will clear to leave a few bright

spells, but rather cloudy with scattered

showers developing. Light and

variable winds. Maximum 17C (63F),

minimum 5C (41F).

SW Eng, S Wales, Channel Is: Early

fog patches clearing to leave sunny

spells and scattered showers. Light

and variable winds, becoming moderate

northerly. Maximum 16C (61F),

minimum 6C (43F).

E Eng, Cen N Eng, NW Eng, IoM,

Lake District, SW Scotland, Glasgow,

Argyll: Some bright or sunny spells, but

it will be rather cloudy with scattered

showers, a few perhaps turning heavy.

Light and variable winds. Maximum

16C (61F), minimum 3C (37F).

NE Eng, Borders, Edinburgh and

Dundee, Aberdeen, Cen Highland,

Moray Firth, NW Scotland, N Isles,

NE Scotland: A few isolated showers,

especially in the south, but otherwise

most places staying dry with sunny

spells. Feeling quite chilly. Light to

moderate north to northeasterly

winds. Maximum 12C (54F),

minimum -1C (30F).

Republic of Ireland, N Ireland: Early fog

patches clearing to leave a mixture of

sunny spells and scattered showers.

Light northerly winds. Maximum

16C (61F), minimum 5C (41F).

Tomorrow

15

14

15

16

Wednesday

16

15

17

17

Friday

20

16

17

18

Saturday

16

13

15

17

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17

15

16

18

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15

16

15

15

12

12

10

8

12

7

7 7

16

17

15

14

13

14

15

13

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 Sunday there were no
fl ood alerts or warnings in England,
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
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1024
1024
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1016 1016
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992
Cloudy with rain at times across
Scotland and northern parts of Ireland.
A mixture of sunny spells, areas
of cloud and scattered showers in
England and Wales and feeling warm.
Max 20C, min 6C
Many places will stay dry with bright
spells although rather cloudy much of
the time. A few showers are possible,
most frequent in southern and
western England, Wales and Ireland.
Max 17C, min 3C
Mostly cloudy with showers or spells
of rain spreading southeastwards
across many areas. Drier in the north
and west later.
Max 18C, min 3C
Dry and bright in the south and
east at fi rst, otherwise cloudy with
showery outbreaks of rain spreading
southeastwards across most places
through the day.
Max 20C, min 0C
Many areas will stay dry with sunny
spells and patchy cloud. Scattered
showers across southern England,
Wales and parts of Ireland.
Max 18C, min 0C
05.29
20.24
06.11
22.34
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G
rim experience of May
bank holiday weekends
in this country teaches
us to expect bad weather,
and especially on the
Early May bank holiday.
It all began in 1978, when the
original May Day bank holiday
began. It probably seemed a good
idea to have a spring break in May
but that first holiday was a
spectacular washout with buckets of
rain for much of the UK.
That inauspicious start set the
tone for many more dreadful May
Days, and changing the name to the
Early May bank holiday made little
difference to the weather. Only last
year the holiday was hit by torrential
rains and strong winds in England
and Wales, with some roads closed
in Wales from floods and fallen
trees, and water supplies cut off in
Winchester due to power cuts in
what was a thoroughly cold, wet and
windy May that is best forgotten.
One bad year could be written off
as a freak of nature, but it was only
two years before, in 2019, that the
Early May holiday was one of the
coldest on record, with snow in
Scotland and a record low of minus
6.2C at Kinbrace in the Highlands.
But it is not always gloom and doom,
and the bank holiday weekend in
2018 had a heatwave that reached
28.7C at Northolt in west London.
On average, though, three out of
four of these bank holiday weekends
have a mixed bag of weather, with
some days fine and other days wet at
least in some parts of the UK. The
problem is that uncertain weather
hardly inspires much confidence to
make plans for going out.
Indeed, on this year’s holiday
weekend, the long run of dry
weather came to an end over much
of the country with rain pushing in
from the northwest bringing wet
weather to many parts especially in
the west, and grey skies covering
much of the country yesterday
except for Scotland and Northern
Ireland.
And for the bank holiday today
there is a mixture of dull skies,
bright spells and a few scattered
showers, but warm in much of the
south.
Weather Eye
Paul Simons