DaveL

New forum member here, old Netweather and (very old) uk.sci.weather subscriber though. Interesting thread, wish I'd seen it earlier as my back garden VP2 beat Fleetlands Gosport yesterday, at 25.9 though half a degree on the high side is likely in the sunhine. I am a few miles further in from the Solent than Fleetlands. BBC reports that the current record for both Easter Sunday and Monday is held by "Solent" which is of course the defunct Solent MRSC - at the other end of Gosport from Fleetlands so in the forecast conditions I'd have gone for Fleetlands or my back garden - but would have been too low on temperature. Fleetlands (like Hurn, and Solent MRSC before it) will be the one to watch whenever there's a lightish anticyclonic NNW to ENE wind with bright sunshine. Winds veered more to the SE today though so that's the end of that, here, for the moment anyway. Peaked at 24.7 early this afternoon in my garden - maybe half a degree on the high side again (VP2 screen effect) so a 24.2 max would be close to several stations between here and London, Otterbourne, Middle Wallop for example, with Heathrow or Northolt favourite. I can't see anywhere beating Fleetlands' 25.5 today or tomorrow.