Wednesday 1st February 2006

[Bobby]

Temp: 0.5c (max so far today)

Pressure: 1021 - Falling

Humidity: 80%

No wind, overcast with low cloud

-1.4c min last night

Nothing like what was forceast. Also a bit of very fine snow drizzle falling.

[SP1986]

-1°C now, and overcast. No snow since before, but some more may fall later

[stano]

Grimsby wx ......... Increasingly misty and cold.

Wind --------------- Wly 5 mph

Pressure ----------- 1023 mb

Temp -------------- 1c

Cloud -------------- 8/8

Mist ---------------- yes increasing

Humidity ---------- 87%

[A Gower Guy]

Cold and cloudy 1.9°c

[Methuselah]

Sunny and dry, 0.2C...

[Optimus Prime]

Cold. Temperature at 1.3c. Hit my MAX at 1:00 when 1.7c was recrded. Certainly not the rubbish 6c that the BBC were forecating! Amazing that throughout the day, temperature has onlt risen by 1.1c.

Cloudy and damp.

[Glacier Point]

Met Office / Beeb spectacularly wrong today with their temps...

Max today 1.2, predicted 3 - 4 C, falling rapidly now under heavy cloud cover.

[Rollo]

Cold dull and dreech, temperature currently 1.3c (at 10am it was 0c) calm,barometer 1021 mb and steady now after falls earlier today.

[Kent Snow]

2.0C, stratus, dull, wind calm.

Edited February 1, 2006 by Kent Snow

[londonsnow]

Cold dull and dreech, temperature currently 1.3c (at 10am it was 0c) calm,barometer 1021 mb and steady now after falls earlier today.

2.5c in london, and as dull as a night out with dave allen (not the comedian, the dreary)

[M'Lady]

Overcast and cold.

Temperature 2.6c

Humidity 93%

Pressure 1022 hPa

(Wind E 2mph

Visibility 3900m.)

[Foggy]

As others have noted, temps have been falling during the day - its' -1.1 here down from +1 this morning. Does anyone know why?

[londonsnow]

2.5c in london, and as dull as a night out with dave allen (not the comedian, the dreary)

the dreary one

[Optimus Prime]

Have a look at this table for some very lot maxis indeed (at 3:00 today)

http://www.metoffice.com/weather/europe/uk...est_obs.html#ec

Even parts of the south west are struggling at 0c. While one place is recording 8c! Adiham is the coldest place in England with a maximum of -1c. And Redhill at 0c. Heathrow at just 1c.

Much colder in the Midlands. With only a few areas at or 1c above freezing. Shawbury is at just -2c!

Currently dropped to +1.2c here.

[Bobby]

-0.2 now

Coldest day of the year so far by the looks of it.

Edited February 1, 2006 by Magpie

[Andy Bown]

A freezing cold, calm and dull/misty day with low cloud sitting on the Plain. Max of 1c and temp now sitting at 0c.

If only this were precipitation bearing cloud .

[Yeti]

ICE DAY TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! WITH SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bitterly cold today - coldest day of the year.

Max temp: -2.0

Min temp: -4.3

A tiny bit of powder snow around midday

[Intrepid]

After a few cold, gloomy, misty days suprisingly the sun as broke through for the the first time since monday morning. Temp start to fall quickly now though.

Todays high: 5c

Current temp: 3.3c

Last nights low: 2c

[MP-R]

Been dull and gloomy with a fair bit of fog around this afternoon. As a result, the temperature only rose to 3.4C after a low of -0.5C. Now very foggy 2.5C.

[Somerset Squall]

A cold and gloomy day. Max temp reached a mere 2.3C. Now turning incresingly misty.

Temp: 1.6C, steady

Humidity: 94%, rising

Pressure: 1021mb, steady

[A Gower Guy]

Cloudy and cold here currently 0.9°c with Rel. Humidity at 85%

Highs today of 1.9°c and lows of -0.3°c

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-bin/akt...x&SORT=2&INT=24

Looking at the above site, my recording seems to match with the 2 nearest stations

[Flat land Andy]

overnight low 1C,

overcast again all day,

light breeze all day,

felt very damp and cold,

day time high 1.8C,

now 0.6C.

[Methuselah]

Dry and clear, -2.1 here, -4C at Dalcross...

[I can't believe it's not better]

A thick unmoving layer of cloud, still.

Min 2C

Currently 2C

R/H 80%

Welcome (Croeso) to net-weather Magpie Looking forward to getting back. I'm thinking of a new improved hut with windpower and solar (I can dream)

Edit: Hmmm?! And a fire

Edited February 1, 2006 by I can't believe it's not better

[Terminal Moraine]

If the temperature doesn't rise overnight, today will have been the coldest Feb' day here since 1996 and the coldest day in any month since Dec' 2000. (It was colder during the day on several days since then but on each occasion the temp' rose before 0900 the next morning)

Thick freezing fog from about 2230 yesterday evening until 1130 today, after which it slowly thinned to mist. Overcast all day.

Temp' at 1800......-2.5c

Max' today...........-1.7c

Min' last night.......-2.7c

Grass min'...........-3.0c

Rainfall today........nil

Sunshine today......nil

Mean wind speed at 1800......1 mph NE, gusting to 2

Highest gust today...........10 mph at 0412

8 oktas stratus

Vis' at 1800................2 miles

Barometer................1021.6mb, rising slowly.

Temp' currently (2000) -4.0c

T.M