Another day where the beach gets the sunshine

[Graham Easterling]

The immediate coast is often sunnier than a short way inland in May/June, but this year the difference appears to have been huge. (The lack of sunshine recorders means I can't be absolutely positive, just 99.9% so) There's also been an lack of sea fog. 

This morning continues the trend. Sennen 09:00, already Cu <1mile inland.

No real swell now, 2/3 days ago saw the biggest swell of the month, though still with some coastal sunshine.

15th June

Beach was red flagged, on this occasion it needed to be. The size of the cars gives a vague idea of the size of the waves (8-12')

Graham

Penzance

[Graham Easterling]

There is still a good 2-4' clean swell on the south coast. 

Perranuthnoe (near Marazion) around 10:30. Absolutely no wind (as the flags show) but a decent clean swell.

At beach level 11:00(ish(

Absolutely glorious day - right on the coast. Bit different if I turned the camera inland.

Graham

Penzance

[Graham Easterling]

The satellite imagery shows up the situation well (13:00 image). The sea breeze convergence cloud pushed towards the north coast, as is normal around noon. It tends to move south later in the day as the NW facing north coast gets stronger heating from the sun.

At noon the current MetO forecast for Penzance showed a grey loud & 16C for 13:00. The new forecast, which is consistently better, sunshine and 17C. (It was 18.5C). The position of the sun in the sky (which benefits the south coast) doesn't seem to be taken into account in these situations.

Graham

Penzance

[jack.h...@gmail.com]

That satpic shows the sea breeze convergence beautifully and would be of great interest to glider pilots who usually find getting to Land's End challenging.

Jack