Penzance - Temperature back to double digits.

[Graham Easterling]

It's just topped 10C here in Penzance (10.5C to be precise, 10.4C at Lands End) Yesterday reached 8.7C despite the showers, would have been the warmest place in the UK in the old days, which was often the case in late autumn early winter.  These days a hill top in Scilly often gets the prize. Still some evidence of a very weak dangler over Scilly, and just about clipping Lands End.

I was a bit surprised how easily the temperature rose each day, the exceptional SSTs must be playing a significant part. Had a lovely walk along Marazion beach this morning in sunshine & near calm conditions. It felt very pleasant, the causeway to the Mount was quite busy.

Prom around noon.

Proper 'andsome.

Graham

Penzance

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Timelapse

https://youtu.be/2iik75orqwI

Limited sun here after cold strart at minue 4C

Jack

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I recall the winter of 1947.  It was cold and very snowy.  I was 8 years old at the time.

Mum had a conversation in the butcher's about "when is this going to end?"  Nobody had a clue, but there were rumours of much milder conditions in the far southwest (Cornwall, I presume).

The computer/internet age hasn't always brought benefits (try talking to a human about an order that's gone wrong), but at least today we can see what the weather is like in Cornwall. (You do like to rub it in, Graham!)

Jack

[Keith (Southend)]

It's been wall to wall sunshine here at Southend-on-Sea today, the solar generated 15.6kWh of electricty, filled the battery which covers an expensive 3 hours on Octopus Agile.

Keith (Southend)

[Graham Easterling]

Not long ago though Jack, you had sunshine whilst we had dreary drizzle.

I don't quite go back to the 40s, but back in the '60s I lived out at Sennen but went to secondary school in Penzance, 9 miles away. In those days we used to have snow every winter, even down here. Whilst it rarely lasted long, with the 'warm' sea it could be heavy. The headmaster would be reluctant to let you leave school early, even if a nuclear war had started. 

On one occasion by the time we left school (3:50) the chance of the bus home running was non existent, so 3 of us from Sennen set off for a 3 hour walk home it what was moderate snow and seemed fun. A couple of miles outside Penzance was a blizzard, and it was becoming a bit much of an experience. We were eventually spootted 4 miles out by a farmer who managed to get us to Sennen in a particularly rugged 4X4. The headmaster faced the full wrath of my mother, and a few others, on that occasion. Can't say it changed him. 

Our last really heavy snow to sea level was in 2018. Sennen, and my garden

Graham

Penzance