DaveL

Grrrr! Looks like today's maximum equals my previous record (post 2013) of 31.8°C so I have STILL failed to reach the magical 32 degrees! Albeit technically still half a degree C below 90F. Now down to 30.8.

Minimum here 19.4°C at 05:16, high so far 31.1°C at 13:41 so beats yesterday by almost a degree, so far. My post-2013 record is 31.8 and could be in danger. Otterbourne water works nr Winchester was also 31.1 at 2pm so I'm fairly comfortable with my own reading.

20.2°C at 03:51, RH 74%, and I thought last night was bad at 16.1 min. We are heading for a minimum of 19.x°C tonight. I can't find anywhere warmer than 20 in the latest METARS.

22.1°C here at midnight! 30.2°C was yesterday's max. Wind ENE from Heathrowland.

Just made the magical 30, max 30.2°C at 2:43pm. My highest ever 'VP2' temperature ever (since 2013) is only 31.8, we always get the sea breezes starting up before we hit the even more magical 32. Except in 1976!

Min 16.1 °C, currently 29.3! Wind is still just north of east, will it stay that way? Come ON!

Another late morning or lunchtime maximum here, 20.1°C at 11:27. Then came those pesky heavy showers again and it was down to 15.5, sams as now, but recovered to 17.7 in between the showers. 6.8mm so far today, Still only 23mm total this month, and it's hard to believe it but my daughter's back garden lawn is actually soggy now !

No thunder here but we caught a packet of heavy showers earlier this afternoon, 10.4 mm so far which is my wettest day by a long way since April. Was turning out to be a nice afternoon until then, touching 21.1°C at 12:42pm - warmest day for 9 days - but it went rapidly downhill after that, 15.3 an hour later and now though dry it's Strange to feel some wet grass!

Oh, I forgot ro upload my early morning noctilucent photo from Saturday so here it is. The stars were still out of course, you can see what is I think Capella on the left just above the middle, it was a fraction east of due north. 200mm lens that just happened to be the one on my 35mm APS DSLR at the time. It would not autofocus, it was too dark for that.

Nice display of noctilucent clouds this morning! Took a few shots of them, will check out the quality later today.

I was just looking at that here, and with 3.9 mm to date after today's 1.1 mm, it is drier here than every May at the old Southampton site between 1855 and 2000, when it closed. I haven't checked any other local sites for more recent data but if the weekly forecast is correct, there will probably be some long-term sites in the region with record low levels of rainfall for May. There were, however, 20 other months of the year with less than 4mm of rainfall at Southampton in that 145 year period - the lowest being June 1925 and Aug 1940 (0mm), Feb 1891 and April 1938 (0.8mm).

Min 14.3 at 8 am, max 18.7 at 1pm, quite a pleasant albeit breezy day here with sunny spells.Just a few spots or 'rain' early in the day but there is nothing in the gauge so 'trace'.

Same as here, peaked at 26.6 at 3:56pm. There is some walled garden effect as my 'north wall' check thermometer shows 25.0, the truth probably somewhere in between. Warmer than yesterday, warmest of the year so far.

There's been nothing special here so far today, wind-wise, but I have just broken my monthly rainfall record - albeit with reliably accurate records only dating back to December 2014. Previous record was December 2018 at 150mm but I have now hit 151.0 mm up to the 28th, with today's rainfall still to add. That is 251% of the 30 year February average for my locality as per current Met Office mapping, and 300% of the average for the now defunct Solent MRSC at Lee-on-the-Solent nearby (<5 miles).. For this mildly rain-shadowy part of the country, it has been a very wet month and I suspect wind speeds for the month have been very high as well. EDIT - Just checked my average monthly wind speeds since Feb 2014, this month has been 20% higher than my previous record highest in Dec 2015.

Since emptying it at midnight, the ol' raIn gauge is about to overflow into the outer container (so ~25mm) and it's still raining at 4 to 5 mm an hour. I am not going outside to empty it! Had 14.1 mm yesterday so am now approaching 40 mm for the event, and 37mm in 24 hours. My very well drained back garden (stony soil) has pools of water on it, which is almost unknown - I'm in the Solent/IoW rain shadow. As forecast, the wind hasn't been a problem, blown-over wheelie bin excopted. Starting to feel a bit nippy outside now, at 6.8°C.

I'll second that, from here just over the water. 11mm rain so far, and to be fair, it did blow my wheelie bin over a few minutes ago ... gust to 54 mph at Soton airport, as forecast by the Met Office.. Tonight and early tomorrow is forecast to be worse than today, down here.

BBC website still forecasting 93 mph gusts for Freshwater and 70 mph gusts for Southampton though. Other locations nearby a more sensible 50-60 mph gusts. Their 'app' has been broken since at least Ciara - anyone know how to tell them so they'll actually take notice?

That little lot woke me up at 4:20 am as I got a direct hit. Here's s radar snapshot (I am the black dot just left of Fareham) with today's extremes embedded. You can roughly double the wind speeds as I measure at under 3 metres, and sheltered. 230 mm/hour and it sounded like it too. 14mm rain in the early hours with a further 3mm before noon.

I was referring to 60 mph gusts at ground level in a town or city (let's say at 2 metres). That's a whole different ball game from 60 mph gusts at 10metres in a standard open exposure, where the mean wind speed might be say 40 but much less at 2m. At ground level, gusting to 60 mph would,be sharper, as you round a corner say, in a mean wind speed of maybe 30 mph and maybe going from zero to 60 mph in seconds due to turbulence, funnelling and so on. The ground would probably be wet as well. As I said, at 40-45mph gusts at 2 metres (handheld anemometer) on the beach it was officially gusting over 70 mph standard exposure, and I could not stand in one position due to the buffeting, however I braced myself - I needed to have a fence right next to me to grab as necessary. I'm not a 7 stone weakling.

That is a very good point almost always missed by almost all of the media. I have a Davis VP2 anemometer sited at 3 metres height in my back garden, as open as I can get it but we are in the middle of a large housing estate of mainly detached houses - not untypical of where most people in suburbia live. The record highest gust is 39 mph (in 6 years) and yesterday's max gusts were 30 mph (3 times) and today, 31 mph (less shelter in westerlies). My record mean wind speed is a mere 14 mph (yesterday)! I once stood on Lee on Solent beach with a hahdheld anemometer registering 40-45 mph gusts and had to hang onto a fence to stay where I was. I think the old coastguard station there was reporting 70 mph plus! Anyone out in a genuine 60 mph gust at ground level would be thrown off their feet and bowled down the road. The media never seem to pick up on the fact that 10 metre open aspect wind speed measurements are for uniformity/comparison and statistical purposes, and don't usually reflect what we mere mortals experience at ground level. As for cliff edge gust speeds at the Needles Old Battery etc., (97 mph yesterday) don't even get me started on that!

20 mm of rain here yesterday (calendar day) and that evening push was a bit of a nightmare for me, I had to head out into the sticks of Hampshire north of here at 5pm, there were bits of broken branches to contend with and huge ponds going halfway across the road. Had three separate wind gust peaks during the afternoon yesterday but they were beaten earlier this afternoon by 1 mph as often happens here in a westerly rather than southerly (nearby house positions). It was the combination of wind and rain that made the drive so tricky. 31 mph gust at 3 metres surrounded by houses is close to the highest I ever get.

I noticed that squall line effect too, it broke my mean wind speed record (albeit only 6 years of wind records) but not my gust record, and was followed by a huge dip in speeds as in your graph. There were three separate gust peaks here, spread across the afternoon.

Flipping heck, the lifeboat nearly capsized! Damned IDIOT surfer.

Sq Squall line imminent! Just had my highest gust iof the day (30 mph at 3 metres in the middle of 2 storey houses, it's usually about half the gust speed at a 10 metre open aspect anemometer e.g. EGHI, so likely a 60 mph-ish gust at standard height).

Idiots. One of them just got knocked over by a wave, then went and did it again, ending up on his back in the water. Lucky he didn't get dragged into the sea.