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johnholmes

Retired Pro Forecaster / Meteorologist
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  1. hi

    not a lot happening, fairly cloudy and not much wind; temp been up and down overnight, around 6am up at 10.9C now down to 6.9C with dewpoint also falling. No sign of having any rain but its probably the weak cold front that has just got south of here.

  2. Hi folks

    I posted this in another area this morning. Hope it may explain things.

    'remember that the lowest temp often occurs, winter and summmer AFTER the sun has poked its head over the horizon, sunrise, well here at any rate, is not until 0757am.

    A similar thing occurs with the max temp, usually after the sun has reached its maximum height in the sky'.

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  3. hi again

    Just worked out my Mean temp for the month so far; including yesterday is 8.9C, some 2.4C above the long term average, but dry, only 16.0mm so far.

    Still a couple of days to go but if the mean temp stays much the same then it will be the highest I've recorded in the back garden since I started in Jan 1997. Not sure about the long term value for this area.

  4. Hi folks

    Not sure how many have looked at this part of Net Wx site recently

    http://www.net-weather.co.uk/index.cgi?act...arts;type=nwsat

    give it a go, brilliantly clear sat pics in the Infra Red spectrum, ie the whiter any cloud is the colder it is, and 'usually' the thicker it is. Presume this is you Paul. Great and many thanks.

    John

    amend

    sorry should have said there are 4, I only looked at the first image. There are 4 images 2 infra red with one showing precipitaion, and two in the visible spectrum again one with ppn.

  5. Hi Tm

    tks for that, yep know the area, walked, biked in my younger days around there. It sure is pretty exposed. Talking of digging tunnels as a kid I do remember 1947. We had an outside loo, several mornings my father had to dig a way to it from our back door, only a matter of 2-3 yards along the same wall, and it was quite often way above my head. The house faced north with a sort of open box on 3 sides with houses, so with anything from the north or north east it just used to swirl around and plaster all the back of the house. A pity no one ever took photos in those days.

    cheers

  6. very impressive, or 'orrible, depending on one's love or hate of bitter cold and snow. Just where in the Peak District do you live? Your figures are nearly as bad as mine for Feb 1963 and that was an incredible winter. Well it was on low ground and even more so about 500 feet up at my parent's house. I shudder to think what your conditions would have been like in the winter of 62/3. Have you got any idea, from any other source perhaps?

    cheers

  7. Hi LL

    I've just been in the pub with a pal and been trying to explain just what it was like to experience Ms 15C, and also to have almost a whole WEEK with temps NEVER(excuse the capitals) even reaching zero deg C. We get really excited if it now stays below freezing for a couple of days, and if it snows as well --!!

    Like you LL I would not want 65 days of snow cover thank you very much. I will eventually put together something about 1947, I was but a little lad then honest!

    Again like you say LL it really is interesting to compare your figures with mine. Thanks a lot for your work too.

    cheers

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