[The changing daylight hours thread]

1:00am marked the beginning of DST.

GMT is one day closer

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 snowrye Saw your words & went straight to radar and it indeed shows snow in Dartmoor. Not the only place either, Lake District on the tops and the Welsh are getting in on the action

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Mostly a sunny day. Went a bit cloudy for a couple of hours this afternoon but back to bright sunshine by 4pm with a top temperature 15.5°C   at  15:17.

Current Temperature 11.2°C so don't hold much hope for single digits tonight.

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Graph shows we had a little blip at 8pm for a couple of hours but since 10pm the temperature has got back on track.

Temperature
8.0°C

Humidity
92%

Dewpoint
6.8°C

Wind Chill
8.0°C

Wind
N

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Today's High Temp

16.3°C   at  15:15

Sunny skies all day & a top temperature just over 16c.

A little rain overnight,

Today's Rain
0.6 mm

which kept the temps up to around 10c. 

Now we continue with the clear skies and the temperature dropping at quite a pace.

Current Temperature
10.1°C

 

 

[The changing daylight hours thread]

 Wynn D Woo It makes sense really because the first day of Spring is marked by the vernal equinox (Spring Equinox) which this year is March 20th, 2024 and the clocks go forward 11 days after.

Thus for us in Europe:

 

Spring is deemed to start at the Vernal Equinox (near 20 March)

Summer at the Summer Solstice (near 21 June)

Autumn at the Autumn Equinox (near 23 September)

Winter at the Winter Solstice (near 22 December).

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/when-does-spring-start

In 2024 the clocks go forward on 31 March at 1am.

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/when-do-clocks-go-forward

 

[SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 on]

Temperature
-2.8°C

Humidity
94%

Dewpoint
-3.6°C

Wind Chill
-2.8°C

Wind
WSW

Into the Sub-zero we go overnight again

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Today's Low Temp

-3.3°C  at    6:20 Went way into Sub-zero range

Temperature
9.2°C with warm bright sunshine that's been an all day affair so far

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 lassie23 No idea, don't have that data lol 

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Broken cloudy night skies with a lovely bright half Moon rising

Temperature 
-2.7°C

Humidity
94%

Dewpoint
-3.5°C

Wind Chill
-2.7°C

Wind
SW

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Today's Low Temp

1.6°C  at    0:18

That temperature was before the Barometer sunk it's reading and it began raining at 2:00am when it raised its warmth to a measley 3c.

These are the readings right now. The Barometer is on its way back up and the current weather is broken clouds with sunshine

 

Temperature
5.3°C

Humidity
90%

Dewpoint
3.8°C

Wind Chill
4.6°C

Wind
SSE

Barometer
990.2 hPa & Rising Slowly

Today's Rain
8.4 mm

 

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Today's Low Temp

-2.2°C  at    5:50

Dipped quite low just before the Sun came up.

Been a lovely sunny day here so far, a tiny shower at approx 10:00am then back to sunshine.

Temperature
6.3°C

Humidity
96%

Dewpoint
5.7°C

Wind Chill
6.3°C

Wind
NNE

Wind Speed
1.0mph

Barometer
995.2 hPa & Steady

Rain Rate
0.0 mm/hr

Today's Rain
0.2 mm

 alexisj9 Looks like maybe we're missing most of the showery conditions here with the Barometer reading Steady pressure. Guessing you are getting all of the showers down near the southern coast. 

[SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 on]

Finally for February overnight temperatures, we have left the anomalous rises to see a more normal drop into the Sub-zero realm. 

Now can we have some SNOW please? It's WINTER after all lol

Temperature
-1.4°C

Humidity
95%

Dewpoint
-2.1°C

Wind Chill
-1.4°C

Wind
WSW

 

[SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 on]

Temperature
0.1°C

Humidity
94%

Dewpoint
-0.8°C

Wind Chill
0.1°C

Wind
W

Barometer

998.6 hPa & Rising Slowly 

[SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 on]

Today started off with grey skies and by lunchtime it became bright with sunny skies. Sunshine remained throughout the afternoon until darkness took over  

The temperature has been a Borefest with hardly any changes in temperature since midnight:-

Today's Low Temp

9.3°C  at    3:55 

 

Today's High Temp

11.7°C   at  12:19

The current temperature is 9.5°C

 

[SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 on]

 Sprites  Guilty m'lord  

It is actually the broken signal given out by the local Radar and the effect you speak of is caused by 'radar clutter'. 

permanent echoes or reflections from hills and buildings (known as clutter**) <------ Sourced direct from 

Rainfall radar

WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK

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Weather radars send out electromagnetic pulses to measure the location and intensity of precipitation - including rain, hail and snow - in...

It was @Jo Farrow who kindly explained the details but I've been unable to find the information that she posted. Sorry

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The Mild Front was knocked back towards Europe by the Cold Front when it passed through here at 22:00 (10pm) The winds from the SW gave way to the NE wind

Temperature
4.2°C

Humidity
93%

Dewpoint
3.2°C

Wind Chill
4.2°C

Wind
NE

[SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 on]

 lassie23 I never throw my toys out of the pram. Leave that for the peeps in MAD thread

Temperature
10.3°C

Doesn't look like it will get anywhere near sub-zero tonight.

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 Vortex3929 Dark theme is still here, happy about that no matter what they do lol

Temperature
12.3°C

Humidity
86%

Dewpoint
10.1°C

Wind Chill
11.3°C

Wind
W

Wind Speed
12.0mph

Barometer
1022.9 hPa & Falling Slowly

Not entirely unpleasant out there as it's not raining.

It's basically the same as yesterday, windy dull overcast.

[SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 on]

Temperature
12.2°C

This morning had bright sunshine winning against the racing clouds. Since lunchtime the sunshine has lost the fight and we just have windy grey cloudy skies. So boring...

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 Vortex3929 Sun pillar as that is the light source IMO of course. Good spot though

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 snowblind Seriously thinking of taking notice of that. Only change into Autumn/Spring duvet at 7.5 togs but even that is becoming too hot in the depths of Winter. I notice the temperature climbed from 1.5c at 19:00 (7pm) last night lol See graph below...

What a way to welcome in February 2024.

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 lassie23 hahaha

I was too busy yesterday to find enough time to catch up with the MAD thread so do appreciate the updates posted in here.

May go read today for the giggles as models have given naughty data for early today

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 snowblind Glad someone else has noticed exactly this. The stats indicating the swap of the overnight temperatures in January & April is very interesting. I can only go on my experience of 'feels like' but have noticed that it's warmer more often in January. April has been colder with change of duvet not happening until at least the end of the month more often than not

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 lassie23 Be careful how you answer this Are you the reason for my 'funny turn' ? OR Are you feeling a bit cold? lol

Sounds as if the models have got interesting. Maybe time to get excited and go have a read through the thread