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East and North Coasts

Location Weather
Air Temp.(°C)
Dew pt.
temp. (°C)
Sea temp. (°C)
Humidity (%)
Wind speed
& direction
Visibility (NM)
Pressure (hPa)
Wave
period (seconds)
Wave
height (metres)
Aberdeen Airport Overcast 70 WSW 4 40 1,007
Boulmer Sunny day 73 ENE 7 18 1,007
Donna Nook Overcast 75 NNE 13 16 1,006
F3 11° 64 E 3 1,005 6 0.3
Kirkwall Airport Overcast 73 N 6 18 1,007
Lerwick (S. Screen) Sunny day 66 S 9 40 1,007
Leuchars Sunny day 60 ESE 11 32 1,007
Lossiemouth Overcast 71 NNE 6 18 1,007
Manston Overcast 10° 64 ESE 7 18 1,005
Sandettie
Shoeburyness Sunny day 11° 59 SE 9 21 1,004
Weybourne Sunny day 68 NNE 7 21 1,005
Wick John O Groats Airport Overcast 71 SE 3 29 1,007

Offshore

Location Weather
Air Temp.(°C)
Dew pt.
temp. (°C)
Sea temp. (°C)
Humidity (%)
Wind speed
& direction
Visibility (NM)
Pressure (hPa)
Wave
period (seconds)
Wave
height (metres)
Brittany 11° 62 W 9 1,003
Gascogne
K1
K2 10° 12° 66 1,007
K7 83 1,007
M6
Pap

South Coast

Location Weather
Air Temp.(°C)
Dew pt.
temp. (°C)
Sea temp. (°C)
Humidity (%)
Wind speed
& direction
Visibility (NM)
Pressure (hPa)
Wave
period (seconds)
Wave
height (metres)
Bournemouth Airport Cloudy 11° 68 ESE 10 21 1,003
Channel
Culdrose Sunny intervals 11° 74 SSW 9 29 1,000
E1 10° 84 SE 12 1,001
Greenwich Light Vessel 11° 88 5 1,003 7 0.2
Guernsey Cloudy 11° 82 S 7 21 1,001
Jersey Sunny intervals 11° 79 SSW 5 29 1,001
Jersey Buoy
L4
Mount Batten Light rain 92 E 7 8 1,001
Needles Old Battery
E 8
Seven Stones

West Coast

Location Weather
Air Temp.(°C)
Dew pt.
temp. (°C)
Sea temp. (°C)
Humidity (%)
Wind speed
& direction
Visibility (NM)
Pressure (hPa)
Wave
period (seconds)
Wave
height (metres)
Belfast International Airport Cloudy 10° 52 N 4 40 1,006
Belmullet Sunny day 11° 54 NNE 14 16 1,008
Campbeltown Airport Sunny intervals 70 W 8 40 1,007
Crosby Overcast 10° 63 NNW 10 35 1,005
Islay Airport Overcast 58 W 3 24 1,007
K4 11° 72 NNE 19 1,011
K5 10° 75 N 19 1,012
M2
M3
M4
M5
Malin Head Sunny intervals 64 NNE 10 18 1,008
Roches Point
Ronaldsway Sunny day 57 E 10 1,006
Skye/Lusa
South Uist Range Sunny day 63 NNW 14 40 1,008
St. Bees Head Sunny intervals 57 NW 10 35 1,006
Stornoway Airport - Climate Station Overcast 71 ENE 4 35 1,007
Tiree Sunny day 66 N 12 26 1,007
Valentia Observatory Light shower (day) 59 ENE 8 24 1,006
Valley Cloudy 10° 58 NE 10 29 1,005

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