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OCEANAberdeenGlasgowEdinburghCarlisleNewcastleYorkManchester
LiverpoolHullLlandudnoShrewsbury NottinghamSheffieldNorwichCambridge
OxfordBristolSwansea
CardiffPlymouthExeterSouthamptonBrightonLondonLondonderryBelfastGalwayDublinCorkBirminghamCELTIC
SEAOrkney Shetland23Saturday22181821Aberdeen
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
YeoviltonAround 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 yesterdayNoon today13 C 0.0 0.6
16 PC 0.2 5.3
16 S 0.0 0.6
15 S 0.0 4.1
17 D 2.4 **
19 PC 0.0 **
17 PC 0.0 0.0
18 PC 0.2 **
16 DU 1.4 9.8
13 C 0.0 **
20 PC 0.4 1.8
17 B 0.0 7.6
17 C 0.0 7.2
14 C 0.0 2.4
14 PC 0.0 4.6
16 S 0.0 3.5
18 PC 0.0 **
15 R 1.0 3.2
18 PC 0.0 0.0
15 PC 0.0 0.6
15 M 1.6 **
16 D 7.4 7.7
18 C 0.0 **
14 DU 0.0 4.9
16 S 0.0 **
11 PC 0.0 5.2
14 S 0.0 3.2
16 PC 0.0 0.3
17 M 0.2 **
20 PC 0.5 0.0
18 B 0.4 0.0
16 C 0.0 0.1
18 M 1.0 **
17 C 0.0 **
13 PC 0.0 **
16 B 0.0 0.0
13 C 0.0 10.4
20 PC 0.0 **
18 PC 1.6 **
15 C 1.0 **
16 D 2.2 **
17 C 0.2 0.0
17 C 0.0 0.0
15 PC 0.0 **
20 PC 0.2 0.0
15 PC 0.0 **
15 PC 0.0 11.4
14 C 0.0 10.6
17 C 0.0 2.6
13 S 0.0 **
18 B 0.0 3.7The 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
LuxorMadeira
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
Zurich26 S
17 PC
26 PC
18 B
39 S
33 PC
30 PC
24 PC
24 S
27 PC
28 S
22 S
25 SH
23 B
16 B
26 S
27 S
11 S
31 S
35 S
8 B
30 S
20 C
16 B
30 PC
42 S
43 S
15 B
24 S
28 PC
23 S
23 PC
29 S
19 S
30 SH
31 PC
18 SH
29 PC
19 S
29 SH
** **
27 PC
25 PC
16 C
25 PC
22 PC
37 S23 PC
30 S
24 S
26 PC
30 S
10 B
28 B
28 S
26 PC
27 B
23 B
18 S
33 B
16 B
21 B
27 PC
31 C
24 PC
25 PC
28 PC
17 B
20 B
18 S
15 R
14 B
25 PC
24 S
44 S
27 S
19 PC
16 S
21 S
23 S
30 PC
27 R
19 S
19 S
17 S
29 PC
27 S
20 B
16 PC
20 PC
20 SH
24 PC
26 PC
17 TThe Times weather
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by WeatherquestFive days ahead
Turning mainly dry and
warm in the southeast
but cloudier further
northwest with some rainToday Rain and showers across Britain and Ireland, some perhaps heavy and thundery. Max 21C (70F), min 5C (41F)
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
Weymouth08:24 3.4 21:18 3.4
01:18 10.3 13:59 10.0
05:55 3.1 18:51 2.8
01:17 9.6 13:57 9.4
12:39 4.3 00:53 4.5
06:08 5.3 18:31 5.5
05:07 4.6 18:00 4.4
12:18 4.0 00:39 4.3
06:44 3.0 20:04 2.7
06:35 3.3 18:58 3.3
05:12 4.6 18:06 4.4
01:03 5.8 13:00 5.9
09:37 4.4 22:19 4.5
05:52 7.5 18:33 7.3
08:22 6.0 20:42 5.8
05:17 2.1 16:28 2.2
13:22 5.2 --:-- --
06:06 7.4 18:47 7.2
05:46 5.1 18:29 5.4
12:20 5.2 00:49 5.5
13:39 2.8 --:-- --
11:54 4.2 00:20 4.5
06:13 3.8 18:58 4.0
05:50 4.8 18:40 5.0
05:02 3.6 17:46 3.8
13:25 7.2 --:-- --
10:44 4.5 23:33 4.5
13:39 1.3 --:-- --Synoptic situation
Low pressure from the Atlantic
will drive fronts across the
British Isles bringing unsettled
conditions. Slow moving
occluded fronts will produce
rain over Ireland and Scotland
while a trough will generate
showers over northern England.
The jet stream to the south of
Britain combined with colder air
in the upper atmosphere will
help to produce showers.Highs and lows
24hrs to 5pm yesterday
Warmest: Northolt,
Greater London, 22.4C
Coldest: Aboyne, 2.2C
Wettest: Jersey,
Channel Islands, 7.4mm
Sunniest: Stornoway, 11.4hrs*
Sun and moon
For Greenwich
Sun rises:
Sun sets:
Moon rises:
Moon sets:
Full moon: June 14Hours of darkness
Aberdeen
Belfast
Birmingham
Cardiff
Exeter
Glasgow
Liverpool
London
Manchester
Newcastle
Norwich
Penzance
Sheffi eld22:29-03:44
22:26-04:18
21:57-04:15
21:56-04:26
21:54-04:31
22:28-04:03
22:06-04:14
21:44-04:14
22:04-04:11
22:11-03:59
21:45-04:02
21:59-04:43
22:00-04:08General situation: Rain in the north
with scattered showers further south.
SW England, Cen S England, Wales,
W Mids: Scattered showers and sunny
spells throughout the day, some
turning thundery at times across
Wales and the West Midlands. Light
to moderate easterly winds. Maximum
19C (66F), minimum 9C (48F).
SE England, E Anglia, E Mids, E Eng:
Rain during the morning clearing
eastwards with scattered showers
developing in the afternoon, someheavy and thundery. Light to moderate
southwesterly winds. Maximum
21C (70F), minimum 9C (48F).
Lake District, NE England, Borders,
SW Scotland, Argyll: An overcast,
foggy and murky start with outbreaks
of rain, heavy at times, perhaps turning
a little brighter later. Variable winds,
becoming moderate southwesterly
in the south. Maximum 17C (63F),
minimum 7C (45F).
Ireland, N Ireland, IoM: Cloudy with
rain and showers, perhaps thundery,spreading northeastwards during the
day. Drier and brighter in the south
later. Moderate to fresh southwesterly
winds. Maximum 18C (64F),
minimum 8C (46F).
NW Scotland, NE Scotland, N Isles,
Moray Firth, Cen Highlands, Aberdeen,
Edinburgh and Dundee: Mainly dry,
cloudy and chilly at fi rst, but rain and
showers arriving during the afternoon.
Light to moderate northeasterly winds.
Maximum 16C (61F), minimum
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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 Tuesday 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
LOW
LOW
HIGH
LOW
LOW
LOW
HIGH
HIGH
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1016
1008
1008
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Blustery with cloudy skies and
showery rain over Ireland, Scotland,
Wales and northwest England, heavy
in western Scotland. Dry and warm
over southern and eastern England.
Max 22C, min 7C
Warm and dry in most of England,
Wales and Scotland with sunny spells.
Rather cloudy with light rain in Ireland
spreading into western Britain
by the evening.
Max 21C, min 5C
Cloudy with showery rain over Ireland
and western Scotland. Sunny spells
and the chance of a few showers over
England and Wales.
Max 23C, min 8C
Cloudy with rain across Scotland,
Ireland, Wales and northwest England,
heavy in northwestern Scotland. Dry
with sunny spells elsewhere.
Max 22C, min 5C
Dry with sunny spells over most of
England and Wales. Rather cloudy with
showery rain over Ireland, Scotland
and northwest England, heavy and
persistent in western Scotland.
Max 22C, min 4C
04.44
21.13
13.31
02.23 Thu
15
LOW
LOW
F
riday is looking like a
surprisingly windy day. The
winds are expected to pick
up tomorrow evening and by
Friday there will be the risk
of gales around northwestern shores,
possibly gusting up to 55mph, and it
will be a breezy day across the whole
UK. This would be unremarkable
and hardly worth mentioning later
in the year, but coming in June it is
rather surprising.
The genesis of this windy spell was
in the Gulf of Mexico, where a
tropical depression flooded much of
south Florida and Cuba with
torrential rain. As the storm moved
into the Atlantic on Sunday and
headed towards Bermuda, it swept
over seas about 1C above normal for
early June, giving it the energy to
boost its winds and grow into a
tropical storm called Alex, the first
named storm of the 2022 Atlantic
hurricane season. And Alex may be
a taste of what is expected to be an
active hurricane season, especially
around the Gulf of Mexico where
the seas are already unusually
warm.
But Alex was a short-lived affair
and by Monday evening it had lost its
tropical character and had grown
weaker. And as this ex-tropical storm
headed further northeastwards it
became absorbed into an Atlantic
depression, beefing it up with warm,
humid tropical air that gave it an
injection of extra energy and
invigorated its winds and rain. And
as that strengthened depression is
dragged across the Atlantic by the jet
stream, it is heading straight towards
the UK, eventually pummelling the
northwest with gusting winds and
some showers.
The remnants of tropical storms or
hurricanes hitting the UK with wet
and windy weather is not unusual.
But searching through the weather
archives, it is difficult to find another
example of something like this
hitting the UK in June. These
leftovers of tropical storms tend to
strike from August to October, and
particularly in September at the
height of the hurricane season. But
whether ex-tropical storm Alex is a
sign of things to come for the UK
this summer and autumn is not clear.
Weather Eye
Paul Simons