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THE GUARDIAN Friday April 15. 1994 Weather 26 General outlook SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND and East Anglia will be rather cloudy with showery outbreaks of rain. It will feel cold again in the fresh northeasterly wind. The rest of England and Wales will be drier and brighter with sunny spells, the best of the sunshine likely in western regions after any early mist or fog patches have cleared. Scotland and Northern Ireland will be generally fine with sunny spells, although parts of northern Scotland will be cloudy with perhaps a little drizzle.

It will feel quite pleasant in sheltered western areas. London, SE England, Anglia, Central England, Midlands, Channel Is: Rather cloudy with outbreaks of showery rain. Wind northeast fresh to strong. Feeling cold. Max 10C (50F).

England, Midlands, SW England, NW England, Central England, NE England: Mainly dry with bright or sunny spells. However, there may be the chance of a shower at times. Wind north-east moderate or fresh. Max 11C (52F). Wales, Wales, Lake Dist, Isle of Man, Borders, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, SW Scotland, Glasgow, Central Highlands, Afternoon Night SMOOTH A CLEAR 20 20 RODE 7 MODERATE CLEAR CLEAR MODERATE MODERATE MODERATE MODERATE.

Moray Firth, NE: Scotland, Argyll, Ireland: Mainly dry and bright with sunny spells. Wind north or north-east light to moderate. Max 11C (52F). NW Scotland, Orkney, Shetland: Fairly cloudy, with perhaps some light rain or drizzle. Wind mainly northerly light to moderate.

Max 9C (48F). Outlook for Saturday and Sunday: Breezy with showers in the south-east, cloudy with some drizzle in the north. Fine and dry with sunny spells elsewhere. The Open University Qualify to teach in Secondary Schools through Part-time study If you are considering teaching as a career, and you already have or are about to obtain a degree, a new and innovative programme from the Open University leads to full recognition as a qualified teacher, and could meet your needs. The Open University Postgraduate Certificate in Education currently has places for those wishing to train as teachers of the following subjects: Mathematics, Technology, Science, French, English, History.

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But they all look rather ghostly and suggest something less extraterrestrial to their origins. Later analyses showed they were in fact unusual clouds called lenticular clouds. These have an astonishing resemblance to a collosal flying saucer, often with circular rings around them and occasionally luminous if the sun is shining from behind. Lenticular clouds come from mountains but are fairly unusual. Normally winds passing over mountains lose their strength and become weaker on the leeward side.

But occasionally something strange happens the air on the leeward side bounces up and down like a bob- Newcastle 7.9 .01 8 3 Showers Norwich 3.6 .12 6 3 Showers Nottingham 6.8 .02 3 Showers Penzance 11.7 Sunny Plymouth 11.2 Sunny Poole 7.7 05 Thunder pm Ross-on-Wye 8.4 Sunny Ryde 1.6 .06 Hail pm Salcombo 11.1 Sunny Saunton Sands 11.5 12 1 Sunny Shanklin .02 2 Hall pm Skegness 8.3 9 Showers pm Southport 12.4 11 4 Sunny Swanage 4.6 Showers pm Southsaa 4.8 Bright Stornoway 5.0 Sunny am Teignmouth 12.2 Sunny Tenby 12.6 Sunny Tirea 11.9 10 Sunny Torquay 11.9 12 Sunny Tynemouth 7.3 Gale Ventnor 6.1 .02 9 3 Sleet pm Weymouth 6.1 9 1 Bright not available. Dial a forecast For a recorded regional forecast dial 0891 500 followed by the code for your area: Greater London 401; Kent, Surrey, Sussex 402; Dorset, Hants, loW 403; Davon, Cornwall 404; Wilts, Glouce, Avon. Somerset 405; Barks, Bucks, Oxon 406; Beds, Horta Essex 407; Nartolk, Suffolk, Cambe 408; and Mid Glamorgan, Gwent 409; Shropshire, Hereford, Worcs 410; Central, Midlands 411; Midlands 412; Lince, Humberside 410; Dyled. Powys 414; Gwynedd, Cheyd 415; NW England 418; and Yorks, Yorks Daica 417: NE England 418; Cumbria. Lake District 419: SW Scotland 420; Central Scotland 421; Edin, File, Lothian, Borders 422; Central Scotland 423; Grampian, Highlands 424; NW Scotland 425; Calthnesa, Orkney, Shetland 436; Ireland 427, Poak rate 40p per minute, off-peak 30p.

Cold front Warm front 1000 Occluded front Trough Satellite predictions to 0604 LONDON to 0608 From To Max to 0602 Elev to 0604 Cosmos 2238 03.14 03.17 42NW Cosmos 1844R 03.47 03 54 59SW Cosmos 2219A 03.53 04.00 72W 1717 6.9m 1410 6.1m MANCHESTER 1431 8 6m From To Max 2232 12.1m Elev 2151 67m Cosmos 2238. 03.14 03.17 67NW 1551 3.0m Cosmos 1844R 03.46 03.54 63WSW 1819 5.0m Cosmos 2258 03.47 03.50 38NW 1504 3.7m Leaves or enters eclipse. Predictions are tar tomorrow. Weather information supplied by the Meteorological Office. Satellite Predictions by the 1957 Royal Greenwich Observatory.

1 Air Quality infor0035 mation supplied by the Department of the Environment. bing wave with nowhere to go. It's caused by air on top of the mountain pushing down on the bottom of the leeward side and "squashing" the air there. If the air is also moist, then every time the air bobs up a lenticular cloud is formed. Apart from their shape they behave even more UFO-like because they often stay stationary as they rest on the lee-waves.

In fact, you can see them in Britain at places like the Pennines, where, with a strong westerly wind, as many as 10 bouncing lee-waves with lenticular clouds can form about five miles apart across Yorkshire, from the Pennines down to the coast. A fairly harmless encounter of a lenticular kind. Around the world Reports for noon yesterday day's reading) be Ajaccio 16 61 Algiers 21 70 Amsterdam 48 Athens 68 Bahrain Bangkok Barcelona Belgrade Berlin Biarritz Bombay Bordeaux 48 Brussels 45 Budapest Alres Cairo 90 Calcutta 97 Cape Town Cagablanca Cologne Copenhagon Corfu 'Denver Dublin Faro Florence Frankfurt nal Geneva Gibraltar Glasgow Helsinki Hong Kong 19 Innsbruck Istanbul 82 Jersey Larnaca Las Palmas Lisbon Locarno London Angeles Luxembourg Madrid Majorca Malaga Malta Moscow Munich Naples Nassau 25 New Delhi 31 York Nice Oporto 16 Oslo 9 Paris 8 Peking 24 Prague Reykjavik Rhodes Rio de Jan. Alyadh Rome 16 Salzburg 8 46 Seoul 15 32 Stockholm Strasbourg Tangier Tel Aviv Tenorifo 21 Tokyo 16 "Toronto Tunis Valencia Vanico Vienna Warsaw Zurich 6 Cloudy; Dr. Drizzle: Fair; Fo: Fog: Hall; 8: Sunny: Th: Thunder, '(previous dav's.