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It has turned a bit wretched out there - heavy-ish drizzle. It looks like a few heavier bursts may be on their way?!

Temp bottomed out at around 12:30am at -2.5°C Overcast and breezy today, rain incoming. Temp: 7.1°C - Hum: 77% - Dew: 3.3°C - Bar: 1035.73hPa - Wind: SSW ~ SW @ 5mph.

After a small rise about 40 minutes ago, it has started falling again, -2.3°C - at least it'll be like that after midnight, meaning another air frost to my stats lol

I should've sent my quad up in the air early this morning - completely forgot! That would've made a nice aerial picture. Maybe in 8 or 9 days time?

Just nipped out for a smoke, and there is cloud moving in now.

Minus two point two at the moment.

Peaked at 6.7°C - currently 4.1°C

Russia is certainly stealing the limelight..

It looks like it may dip below freezing here tonight/just after midnight, before the cloud encroaches - that'll make 16 frost days so far.

Very frosty this morning, a low of -3.4°C Temp: -2.1°C - Hum: 97% - Dew: -2.5°C - Bar: 1034.91hPa - Wind: Calm.

Finally just dropped below zero here..

That LP on the 18Z would be very troublesome! It falls around a Spring tide, and when you think that parts of the East coast were under flood warnings today - coming up to a neap tide, it would be much worse than that.

Temperature is struggling to fall here - completely cloudy.

GIF o' clock

Currently at 3.7°C here. Region average is 4.5°C

Only one month to fill, to complete my heatmap for one year - its gone so fast!

The wind got up out of the blue last night - registered a 27mph gust. A low of 1.8°C this morning, mostly cloudy today, and feeling cold because of it. Temp: 7.7°C - Hum: 86% - Dew: 5.4°C - Bar: 1026.85hPa - Wind: W @ 5mph. The MetO are going for -3°C here by the morning, quite possible I may get close to my -4.7°C record in December. GFS and NetWx SR respectively:

I bought the black version of this: http://www.gearbest.com/rc-quadcopters/pp_424346.html For the money, you'll be hard pushed to find one with GPS on both the transmitter and quad for 'follow me' mode, and for flying home and landing by itself. Yeah, i've had a good read up on many sites about quad flying - it is still a grey area regarding actual rules though. I think common sense prevails to be honest. I used GPS mode when I took those pics, at a height of about 25m, it's safer in that mode, and it will return to the place you took off from if anything goes wrong. I'll only be going higher and further out when I head to some numerous open spots around here - Old Harry Rock being one of them. There are some people on YouTube who have managed to fly the same quad at a distance of 2km, and also got it to go 1.2km up, a bit excessive for my liking, and out of range of your own sight. It would be good to add some kind of lightweight sensor array to it, and measure temp/humidty as you ascend.

A couple of pics I took from my quad earlier. Facing SW - Purbeck hills/Corfe Castle Facing ENE-ish - Showing how close Poole Harbour is from me.

February 3rd 2015.

I'm not sure whether it'd be January or February 2014 for me - the storms that were battering the coastline were quite a spectacle! I spent more time at the beaches down here during that period, than I do in Summer.

My bad - My glass eyes decided to skip past Tg lol

December 2016 turned out to be the dampest in 5 years. Sunshine was pretty much average, probably slightly above due to positioning of my sensor. I also managed 6 air frosts too, which isn't too shabby for my location. Temperature: High: 14.1 °C - [December 9th] Low: -4.7 °C - [December 1st] Average: 7.1 °C MetO region Average: 4.8 °C Humidity: High: 99 % - [December 11th] Low: 67 % - [December 26th] Pressure: High: 1044.84 hPa - [December 27th] Low: 1015.71 hPa - [December 15th] Wind: Max Gust: 42 mph - [December 23rd] Max Speed (10 Min Avg): 20 mph - [December 23rd] Avg Speed: 4 mph Dominant Direction: SW Rainfall: Total: 36 mm MetO Region Average: 80.9 mm Max Rain Rate: 37 mm/hr - [December 10th] Max Hourly Rain: 3.8 mm - [December 10th] Max Daily Rain: 8.4 mm - [December 21st] Solar Radiation and Sunshine Data: Max Daily High Solar: 332 Wm⁻² - [December 3rd] Min Daily High Solar: 47 Wm⁻² - [December 8th] Max Sunshine: 5.2 hrs - [December 4th] Min Sunshine: 0 hrs - [December 2nd / 6th / 8th / 12th / 19th / 20th] Total Sunshine: 49.1 hrs MetO Region Avg: 49.4 hrs

A low of -2.8°C here, quite a way off from the lows of November 30th and December 1st. It was probably the hardest frost of Winter though, my pond fully iced over for the first time. Temp: 4.4°C - Hum: 87% - Dew: 2.5°C - Bar: 1030.86hPa - Wind: WSW ~ N @ 3mph. Were you looking at dew points knocks? This is what shows up for me..

My frost season is 59 days in (started November 3rd) and i've managed 12 air frosts in that time - that's actually pretty darnn good for this location.