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• Dartmoor Gliding Society - Ed Borlase

  and the challenge comes in.   Ridge lift is where a hillside or ridge gets in the way of the air, forcing it upwards. Gliding becomes sort of like surfing; you can beat up and down a ridge which can stretch for miles. You can fly pretty low compared to other types of lifts so it's a very different type

• How unusual is this week’s extreme heat, and why will it feel so intense?

  stands at 35.6°C, last recorded in 1976 and 1957, and could be challenged during this spell. Runs of very high temperatures are also uncommon. Historically, sequences of three consecutive days reaching 35°C have only occurred a handful of times, such as in June 1976, August 1990 and August 2020

• Bank holiday forecast: A hot and settled weekend

  twenties across central and southern regions. In these areas, it will feel very hot in direct sunshine, with strong late-spring sunshine adding to the intensity of the warmth. Further north and west, including parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, it will be cooler and somewhat cloudier. Although any

• Decadal forecast 2014

  individual location. The chances of these limits being met everywhere are very small, so the complete patterns shown in diagrams B and C are very unlikely to be realised.   Five-year mean forecast: mean, lower and upper estimates Figure 2:Forecast maps of surface temperature differences (°C) relative

• Summer 2022: a historic season for northern hemisphere heatwaves

  pattern very closely to monitor if the pattern will persist into August. What of the role of climate change?  The extreme temperatures that we have been experiencing in the UK are unprecedented in recorded history. In a climate unaffected by human influence, climate modelling shows

• Week ahead: How long will the heat last?

  Office Tue 26 May 2026 Temperatures at the start of the week have already reached well above late-May averages and a number of temperature records have been broken. But how long will the heat last? The current settled weather pattern will persist into midweek, bringing further sunshine and very high

• session-1---our-climate.pdf

  the clothes in your wardrobe, the number of trousers and t-shirts you have in there, year-on-year probably doesn’t change that much, as these prepare you for your climate. What you have in your wardrobe might be very different to what someone who lives in the Arctic has in theirs. That’s because

• Disc Log 185

  occasionally form at slightly lower altitudes provided that the temperature and humidity conditions are appropriate. In a very dry atmosphere, continued mixing between the contrail, which is very turbulent, and the environment can lead to the air becoming sub-saturated, resulting in the cloud

• Microsoft Word - 2023_08_storm_babet_v1.docx

  1891, while the Midlands provisionally recorded its wettest 3-day period on record. This rain came on top of very wet weather earlier in October with some central and eastern parts of England and Scotland recording more than twice the October whole-month average rainfall in the first three weeks

• Deep Dive: extreme rainfall, spring frost and a dry April

  , this week’s Deep Dive will also look back on what April delivered across the UK - a month that brought stark contrasts in rainfall, abundant sunshine for many, and temperatures that behaved very differently by day and by night. Exceptional rainfall risk in South Africa While large parts of central Africa