Katrine Basso

I could not get on the Spaceweather website as I got a message: Forbidden you don't have permission to access / on this server. I have never had any problems accessing the website before.

It is a beautiful sunny morning in Ockendon. I hope this will be a start of a new trend of warmer and sunnier days.

Spaceweather has not updated the sunspot count today as it still has yesterdays sunspot count.

There is a cloudy sky which is very slowly brightening up. It stopped raining earlier in the morning at 09:00 am and will be getting more rain in 12 hours time. Thurrock has had more than their fare share of rain and many of the fields are flooded with rain.

This morning in South Ockendon started with promising weather of lovely bright sunshine but sadly it did not last more than 2 hours. The sky clouded over which led to heavy showers rain and cooler temperatures.

I wonder what will the final count of sun spotless days. I hope it will between 150 and 200.

It won't be long before we reach the 2010 count of 51 sun spotless days.

The Spaceweather.com has not updated their sun count number. I went on to the Solarham.net website and the have the sunspot count as zero.

I live in a council maisonette flat with and do not get snow falling from the roof due as it is not insulated. I have very sensitive hearing and would have easily heard snow blow off the roof. It looked like it was snow heavier in the front garden and lighter in the back garden.

Last night it seemed to be snowing heavier in the front garden facing the street than in my back garden. Later on in the night the snow stopped falling in my back garden but was continuing in the front garden. This morning I found that I have snow in my front garden than my back garden.

Increases of snow and sea ice.

I live in Thurrock and the Met Office Weather station which covers my area is in Greenhithe in Kent. When there was an amber warning for snow for Tuesday 27th February but we hardly got any but Greenhithe did get more heavy snowfall. Kent has always got snow than Essex. This is not a criticism more of an observation. I wonder if it would be more for Essex to have their own weather station. We got our heavy snow a day later. Thurrock and Kent are divided by the river Thames and there is a least 8 miles between South Ockendon and Greenhithe as the M25 is two or three miles away from where I live.

The definition that I found on the internet is what the temperature feels like. I got the weather data from the Thurrock Weather station website which is based in Tilbury.

It has been snowing since 7 am and there is a heavy dusting of snow. It stopped snowing in the late of morning. It has been sporadic snow showers since the early afternoon and the snow will become heavier over night. The pearly grey clouds have been thickening throughout the day. The temperature is now at -1.5 °C , the windchill is at -4.9 °C , the apparent temperature is -5.2 °C and the dew point is -2.3 °C .

On Solarham.net has not counted the very small faint sun spot. http://www.solarham.net/

More increases of sea ice in the Baring Straits.

Some minor increases in sea ice.

There have been slight increases in the sea ice in the Baring Straits which has gone back to the same level it was over 9 days ago.

This is the 9th sun spotless day. 2018 total: 37 days (52%) Solar Flux 68

Another day of a spot free sun. The current stretch of spotless days: 7 days 2018 total: 35 days (51%) The Radio Sun 10.7 cm flux: 68 sfu

According to http://sidc.oma.be/silso/ this is the fourth day that the sun has been completely spot free. The sunspot data has been updated at http://www.spaceweather.com/ and has three spotless days.

This the latest snow and ice chart for Europe and Asia

Since the start of March there have been two sun spotless days; yesterday and today.

It looks like the sea ice is moving.

Warden Bay and Leysdown are on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.