Terminal Moraine

Thick fog until 0930, then cloudy and dry until about 1500 when light rain arrived. Temp' at 1800 7.1c Max' today 7.6c Min' today 0.8c Rainfall from 0900 0.3mm Sunshine nil Wind at 1800 24 mph SW, gusting to 34 Vis' 7 miles Barometer 1017.2mb, falling slowly. 8 oktas nimbostratus, continuous light rain falling. T.M

Dull and chilly today. Temp at 1800 2.3c Max' today 2.3c Min' today 0.8c ( at midday ) Grass min overnight 1.4c Rainfall from 0900 trace Sunshine nil Wind 14 mph SW, gusting to 18 Vis' 4 miles 1025.8mb, falling slowly 8 oktas stratus T.M

Much cooler and cloudier than yesterday after thick fog until 1030 Temp at 1800 4.8c Max' today 4.8c Min overnight 4.2c Grass min' -0.1c Rainfall from 0900 trace Sunshine today nil Wind at 1800 20 mph SE, gusting to 30 Vis' 7 miles Barometer 1028.2mb, steady First 12 days of December Mean max' 7.3c ( +1.9c) Mean min' 3.2c ( +1.8c) T.M

A very mild day here with periods of sunshine. Temp' at 1800 6.5c Max' today 9.4c Min last night 3.3c Grass min' -0.2c Rainfall from 0900 nil Sunshine today 1.93 hrs Wind at 1800 8 mph SW, gusting to 9 Vis' 10 miles Barometer 1028.4mb, rising steadily 1 okta altocumulus T.M

Thick fog until 1130 a.m, vis 70-100 mts. About 3 seconds of sunshine mid afternoon as the stratus broke. Temp' at 1800, 6.4c Max' today 7.8c Min' today 4.7c Grass min 0.3c Rainfall from 0900 0.1 mm Sunshine today 0.01 hrs Wind at 1800 7 mph SW, gusting to 11 Vis' at 1800 15 miles 8 oktas stratus Bar' rising steadily at 1030.2mb. T.M

Temp' at 1800 5.0c Max' today 7.8c Min overnight 6.0c Rain from 0900 nil Sunshine today 3.3 hrs Wind at 1800 4 mph SW, gusting to 4 Vis' 25 miles 1 okta cirrus fibratus

Temp at 1800 7.8c Max today 8.0c Min today 4.3c Grass min 0.0c Rainfall today nil Sunshine 1.5 hrs Wind at 1800 16 mph SW, gusting to 22 Vis' 40 miles 8 oktas altocumulus perlucidus and stratus fractus T.M

Tediously benign weather at present. The sort of weather the BBC forecasters describe as 'mild and pleasant' I spit upon their description. Anyway here's the data. Temp at 1800 6.3 Max today 8.8 Min today 5.6 Grass min 2.8 Rainfall from 0900, trace Sunshine today 2.1 hrs Wind at 1800 10 mph W , gusting to 12. Vis' 2 miles, fog in the valley. 2 oktas cirrus fibratus, altocumulus translucidus and stratus fractus

Max today 5.8c Min last night 2.2c Grass min' 0.3c Temp at 1800 1.6c Ranifall from 0900, trace Sunshine today 4.29 hrs Wind at 1800 7 mph NW, gusting to 7 Vis' 6 miles 1 okta cirrus fibratus T.M

I'm confused by the penultimate paragraph. If the feathers and the lead are measured in a vacuum, by definition there is no air so how can it slightly support the feathers? T.M

At 18.00 Temp' 4.4c Max today 4.8c Min today 0.6c Grass min' -2.6c Rainfall from 0900 nil Sunshine today 1.36 hrs Wind 9 mph S, gusting to 12 Mean temp' for November was 1.0c above 30 year average, this was the 4th consecutive mild November but the coolest since 2001 Rainfall and sunshine both 56% of average. Driest November since 2001.

At 18.00 Temp' 1.3c Max' today 5.5c Min' last night 1.2c Grass min' -0.4c Rainfall from 0900, nil Sunshine today 4.11 hrs Barometer 1018.9mb, falling slowly Wind 6 mph SW, gusting to 7 2 oktas cirrus fibratus and altocumulus translucidus T.M

Yes John, If I can't be accurate you may as well box me up and I'll call it a day. LOL. T.M

At 1800; Temp', 4.1c Max' today 5.2c Min' today 2.9c Rainfall from 0900, 0.7 mm Sunshine nil Wind at 1800, 23 mph N, gusting to 36 4 oktas altocumulus perlucidus and cumulus humilis Vis' over 40 miles Barometer, 1016.3mb, rising steadily. T.M

Not sure if this is the correct place to report sleet or snow, if not, please enlighten me. Anyway, we had sleet for about an hour this morning between about 1030 and 1130. T.M

Hi John, I'm on Middleton moor, it's about 17 miles SE Buxton and about 5 miles SW of Matlock. The best indication I can get of the conditions in 1963 is to look at the Buxton record, my max' are slightly lower than there's on average and minima rather higher as they are in a hollow surrounded by land up to 450m or so. I'm on top of an exposed plateau and never experience exceptionally low minima. The Jan and Feb' mean temp at Buxton in 1963 were -2.9c and -2.7c respectively, unfortunately I don't have the daily data. The mean in Feb' 1947 was -3.8c, I think ours would have been about -4.0c as it is this type of month ( dull, cloudy, E wind ) which gives us our lowest temperatures rather than anticyclonic months such as Jan' 1963. I do know from talking to elderly villagers that in Feb' 1947 some people dug tunnels through snow up to 5m deep to access their front doors. I can quite believe this as in Jan' 1979 I had snow higher than the top of the back door of the house after one single blizzard. T.M

At 1800 Temp' 7.2c after max' of 7.8c and min' of 5.8c Rainfall from 0900, trace. Sunshine, nil Wind 11 mph S, gusting to 13 7 oktas altocumulus perlucidus and translucidus Light shower in past 10 minutes. Benign and boring about sums it up. T.M

I should have mentioned, snow depth is in cm. T.M

Right, here goes with the Feb' 1986 data, recorded at 330mts in the southern Peak District of Derbyshire. The figures are daily max, daily min and mean depth of lying snow at 0900. 1 0.2 -0.9 14 NE gale, light snow and freezing drizzle. Gust of 88 mph 2 -0.2 -0.6 20 NE gale, light snow and freezing drizzle, drifts to 2m 3 0.0 -1.0 27 Thick freezing fog and light drizzle or snow 4 -0.7 -1.6 27 Thick freezing fog and drizzle. Glaze and rime 7cm thick 5 -1.0 -4.3 29 Moderate snow and f5 NE wind. Thorn trees bent double and welded to snow surface due to weight of glaze and rime 6 -2.8 -5.5 29 Snow showers and f5 NE wind. Drifts 1-3m deep 7 -2.7 -4.3 29 Light snow showers and sunny intervals 8 -2.0 -4.3 32 Snow showers and f4 NE wind, more drifting 9 -1.1 -4.2 31 Dull, light wind and occasional light snow 10 -3.6 -8.3 31 Sunny after thick freezing fog a.m 11 -1.5 -5.5 30 Dry and cloudy 12 -2.6 -4.4 29 Freezing fog and f4 SE wind 13 -0.4 -5.2 30 Sunny, f5 NE wind. Last of glaze and rime fell from trees 14 -3.0 -4.4 28 Dull and windy with light-moderate snow, further drifting. 15 -2.1 -3.8 27 Cloudy with f5 E wind, drifting snow 16 -1.9 -3.1 27 Dull, intermittant light snow and drifting 17 -1.2 -3.6 27 NE gale, light snow and drifitng 18 -1.6 -2.7 25 Snow showers and f5 E wind, more drifting 19 -1.2 -4.2 26 Sunny periods and snow showers 20 -1.1 -5.3 26 Sunny periods after freezing fog. NW wind 21 -2.9 -8.0 26 Sunny periods 22 -1.5 -6.5 26 Sunny with f4 NW wind 23 -2.6 -5.6 26 Sunny spells, snow showers, f4 E wind, more drifting 24 0.7 -4.6 25 Sunny, light snow showers, first day above 0c for 23 days 25 -1.8 -4.7 25 Sunny intervals and snow showers, f4 E wind 26 -2.9 -6.7 27 Sunny, f5 E wind, light drifting 27 -1.8 -6.0 27 Sunny, f6 E wind, drifitng snow 28 -0.1 -3.3 25 Sunny, f7 E wind, drifting snow. Mean max' -1.6c, mean min -4.6c. Rainfall (all snow or freezing drizzle) 41.6mm 21 days snow falling, 28 mornings snow lying. The coldest Feb' since 1947 and second coldest of the century T.M

Big thanks indeed to L.L and John for taking the trouble to transcribe that lot, fascinating stuff. It makes me wonder what the conditions were like where I live. We certainly wouldn't have experienced the very low minima but the daily maxima would have been interesting. The data for February 1986 here make interesting reading, I'll attempt to put them on the board tomorrow. T.M

A very quiet day after yesterday's gale. At 1800. Temp' 8.5c Max today 10.3c Min' today 8.1c Rainfall from 0900, trace Sunshine 0.02 hrs Wind at 1800 6 mph NW, gusting to 7 Vis' 15 miles 8 oktas stratocumulus and stratus Barometer 1029.mb, rising steadily T.M

Excellent stuff Ledbury Lad, were the readings taken in Herefordshire? My own readings didn't begin until Sept' 1963 alas. T.M

At 1800 Temp' 9.9c after a max' of 11.1c Rainfall from 0900, trace Sunshine today 4.87 hrs Wind 30 mph W, gusting to 46 Max' gust today 68 mph at 10.17 Barometer 1016.5mb, rising slowly. 7 oktas cumulus with occasional light showers T.M

Like mid- March today. Temp' 10.0c after min' of 6.7c. Wind 43 mph W, gusting to 62. Vis' 30 miles. Sunny with 1 okta cirrus and altocumulus to the west Baromter 1011.3mb rising slowly. Needless to say all snow has gone. T.M

No snow or sleet here this mornng but we did have an hour of freezing rain and drizzle which covered everything in a light glaze. Anemometer ceased up for an hour and a half as a result. Temp' got above 0c by 0715 and the glaze slowly thawed. T.M