Sunday 22nd February
Although no rain fell during Saturday morning the approaching weather front pushed ever thickening cloud in front of it that resulted in very misty conditions with moisture in the air. A few spots of rain fell just after 16.00 with light rain triggering the automatic rain gauge just before 03.00 early Sunday with light rain until the gauge was read at 08.00 with a daily total of just 1.8mm. The significant feature of the weather was the warmth thanks to the run of a west-southwest air stream front the Atlantic. The thermometer reached a peak of 14.1C at 14.29 being 5.9C above my long-term average, a minimum of 10.9C at 05.15 early Sunday was a significant 9.0C above average.
The maximum UV of 1.5 (top end of low) was the highest since 4th November whilst the peak temperature of 14.9C made it the warmest day since 13th November.
Sunday arrived dull with light rain falling from a weather front passing eastwards across southern England. The radar indicated that the heaviest and sustained falls were just to the south of our area, Marlborough being on the northern edge of the front. The cold front will clear our area around midday that should give is a dry and perhaps sunny afternoon.
The large area of high pressure will remain in its current position for two more days before elongating north/south over Scandinavia and eastern Europe. This will result in the breeze backing a few degrees to come from the south resulting in the warm weather continuing into next week with Wednesday likely to bring us the highest temperature with the air stream originating from around Iberia.
Europe’s next-generation satellite captures its first full view off Earth’s surface.
On November 15, 2025, a satellite hovering 36,000 kilometres above Earth snapped an incredibly detailed view of the planet. From that height in geostationary orbit, it sees the same stretch of Earth all the time the planet spins below.
What it captured wasn’t a normal photo. It was a map of heat and moisture across continents, oceans and clouds.
The images came from the Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder, or MTG-S. Its Infrared Sounder instrument doesn’t see light the way our eyes do. It reads infrared energy, which tells scientists how warm the surface is, how cold the tops of clouds are, and how much moisture sits in the air. That information shapes weather forecasts, especially when storms start to build fast.
Part two tomorrow.