Sunday 8th November
Saturday was predominantly cloudy with a little brightness in the afternoon that lifted the temperature to a peak of 10.2C at 15.04, which was 0.1C below the November average. The cloud overnight resulted in a relatively mild night with a minimum of 6.6C logged at 07.39 early Sunday, which was 2.5C above average.
After first light on Sunday it was evident that fog had returned but not quite so dense as on previous days with visibility down initially to around 400m, but thickened towards 08.00 with the visibility dropping to around 300m. Once again the new day started under calm conditions with the anemometer stationary although as the day progresses the air stream is forecast to come from the southwest before very quickly changing to arrive from the east during the evening.
The depression that has been lurking in the eastern Atlantic for the past few days, blocked by the recent high-pressure, will begin to edge closer as the anticyclone falls away. The forecast charts indicate that although the centre of the depression will stay to the west of the UK, from Tuesday it will begin to push weather fronts across the UK with showers likely Tuesday onwards. Depressions often bring winds off the Atlantic from a southwesterly direction, however, the centre of this depression is to the southwest of the UK. This will result in the air moving anticlockwise around the centre as they do, but, due the position of the depression, it will arrive from the south on its eastern circumference starting from around Iberia, before arriving from the east over the UK around the top of the low pressure. An easterly breeze is likely to continue this week getting stronger mid-week.
There is a suggestion that cooler air will arrive from the northeast from Friday, but that is quite a long way ahead.
The National Memorial Arboretum is the UK’s year-round centre of Remembrance and home to the Armed Forces Memorial. The expansive site is located on the edge of Staffordshire. During this coming week I will attach various scenes from the arboretum.