On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 7:28:24 PM UTC+1, Nick Gardner wrote:
Sunshine amounts this month were struggling right up until the 18th then
it was a dramatic 'all-change'. Including the 7.5 hours we've enjoyed
today (Friday), there have been 70 hours of the glorious stuff since.
That equates to 75% of the total possible sunshine for those given dates.

The monthly total is now just two hours short of my very estimated LTA
of 130 hours' sunshine for October. Given the forecast, this month could
well end up in the rather sunny category, though it will have some way
to go to beat October 2010 or 2016 which had 164 and 165 hours respectively.

That cold wind came as a shock today despite the sunshine. A maximum of
12.6C belied the chill in the air. Dramatic skyscapes with towering
thunderclouds that all skirted around the Otter Valley and it stayed dry
here.

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Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalleyweather.me.uk

About 105 hours of sun so far up over the moors at Bosullow, a bit more here, but certainly not 130 hours. (110-115 at a guess).

Several very brief showers here today, but tomorrow looks like a major dangler. In Penzance the coldest days in Autumn tend to come under these lines of rain. They may be described as 'bands of showers' on the forecasts, but often it's fairly continuous rain for hours in a very narrow strip, causing some very localised high totals, certainly 20mm on some occasions, Especially the ones that just clip west Cornwall. It tends to break up if the line is further east and get's more disrupted by the land mass of SW England.

Example here http://www.turnstone-cottage.co.uk/DanglerFinal.PDF

MetO certainly thinks it'll be particularly cold (for Penzance that is, clearly not for Copley!) tomorrow
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/...ate=2018-10-27

Wetsuit packed away until 2019.

Graham
Penzance