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. Scotland recorded 1053.6mb in Aberdeen on 31 January 1902, with similarly high values seen in England (1053.1mb in Falmouth, 1905) and Wales (1050.5mb in Mumbles, 2020). Such high-pressure systems can dominate for days, leading to cold, calm and often frost-laden weather. Rainfall extremes: concentrated
. Austell Barnstaple Exeter Princetown Plymouth Plymouth Nettlecombe Bruton Yeovilton Taunton Yeovil Exeter airport Teignmouth Torquay Penzance Penzance Gwennap Head St. Mary’s Falmouth Pendennis Point Lizard Stations Places Figure 1. Map of South West England. The plateaux are deeply incised by rivers
. Map showing the 30-year (1971 — 2000) average number of days of thunder per year across the UK. Picture (following page) Thunderstorm off Falmouth, Cornwall © SD Burt. National Meteorological Library and Archive Met Office FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB, United Kingdom. [email protected] www.metoffice.gov.uk Produced by the Met Office. Met Office and the Met Office logo are registered trademarks. © Crown copyright 2023
in inland Devon. On 8/9 January 1982 conditions were especially severe in the Bristol area where dri s were locally 1 m deep. Another event, this time from convective showers, on 12 January 1987 produced snow depths of 35 cm (Falmouth), 39 cm (Penzance) and even 23 cm on the Scillies. Also, persistent
on the mounting of barometers, while the Committee moved to establish observatories at Kew, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Stonyhurst, Armagh, Valentia and Falmouth. By the end of 1867 the observatories at Kew, Glasgow and Stonyhurst had become fully operational and the remaining four followed before the end
. The heavily instrumented cruise D319 on the RRS Discovery from Lisbon, Portugal to São Vicente, Cape Verde and back to Falmouth, UK was used to characterise the spatial distribution of boundary layer components likely to play a role in reactive halogen chemistry. Measurements onboard the ARSF Dornier
