Todays Weather And General Chat

[Stargazer]

After a dry and partly cloudy day at work in Basingstoke, on the warm and muggy side of the front, I've arrived back in Reading to light rain with the threat of something much heavier. Currently 11.6, maximum 17.6, last night's minimum 11.0. We also had a brief thunderstorm just before midnight last night.

Edited April 16, 2009 by Stargazer

[Andy Bown]

The Southern half of the sky is largely clear with Cirrus, the Northern half is cloudy and, just a few miles N & stretching across the horizon, is very active with active scud and very dark cloud.

13.3c and 86% humidity.

[conor123]

A dull misty/foggy day with overcast skies and showers on and off which were heavy at times.

Pretty cool to with a high of 11c, currently 9.4c and drizzly.

[MP-R]

A small thunderstorm passed here between 02-30 and 03-00 this morning with heavy rain but all was calm this morning. It was rather cloudy and muggy this morning but by midday the clouds dissipated and allowed convection take place. This afternoon was largely sunny and warm, the warmest day of the year so far and I have had great views of storms over Wales since about 3.30pm. Now it is cloudy and very ominous looking to the north.

Current Temp: 14.0C

Max. Temp: 18.7C

Min. Temp: 10.8C

Ave. Temp: 14.8C

Month Ave: 11.3C

Rain: 6.4mm

Sun: 4.9hrs

Wind: NE (Ave. 5.1mph)

Pressure: 1007.8mb

[Koppite]

Its been cloudy and cool pretty much all day with outbreaks of mostly moderate rain (occasionally heavy at times,) with lots of misty low cloud. Top temperature was 13.7C this morning, this afternoon its been mostly round the 10C-12C mark which has felt decidedly chilly in the easterly breeze.

Edited April 16, 2009 by RUSS L.F.C.

[Terminal Moraine]

Thick fog until late morning, thinning to mist by midday. An overcast day with a few short and mainly light showers, also the coolest day of the month, the cool feel accentuated by a fresh NE wind.

At 1800 g.m.t;

Temp', 6.7c

Max' today, 7.9c

Min' last night, 6.9c

Grass min', 6.4c

Rainfall from 0900-1800, 1.1 mm

Sunshine today, nil

8 oktas stratus

Mean wind speed, 21 mph NE

Highest gust today, 35 mph NE at 1616 g.m.t

Vis', 2 miles.

[SteveB]

Today’s weather

Pressure 1008.3hPa

Current Temp 13.6c

Highest Temp 18.6c

Lowest Temp 10.0c

Humidity 73%

Dewpoint 9.0c

Windchill 13.6c

Windspeed 0.0mph

Wind direction S

Rain Total 0.0mm

Monthly Rain Total 9.8mm

[TonyH]

Rather cloudy today. Clear and sunny intervals, humid and rather warm.

When we left at 1500 it was overcast. Drove up to Bethesda in Snowdonia there was rain most of way north of Aberystwyth. Staying up here a few days.

Min 11.0c

Max 16.7c

Rain yesterday 0.5mm.

Currently in Bethesda its dark damp and

overcast temperature about

10c.

Excuse the mobiles texting:$.

[Bottesford]

A chilly feeling day & evening with a chilly easterly, dark skies & frequent showers. Using a lot more heating tonight than I've used in a good few weeks - chilly easterlies literally strip the house of warmth. 9.9c at the moment compared to this time last nights almost 14c.

[Tucco]

Wind strong very gusty NE temp still falling currently 4.7C.

Mark

Teesdale,Co Durham

[damianslaw]

A tempestuous day with a really strong buffeting and cold east wind which has been absolutely relentless all day, also a very dry wind but it just cuts through you, my flat is east facing and exposed and the wind seems to be cutting right through it.

Like yesterday a predominantly cloudy day aswell, though the sun did try to break through on occasion.

Come this time tomorrow it will have been a week with nil rain measurement, nothing unusual for April, but a big contrast to much of the rest of england and Wales, we have been just to the north of all frontal activity, hence way I think the pressure gradients have been so strong here over the past 2 days and why we have seen such a strong east wind.

Can see tomorrow being a carbon copy of today and yesterday.. roll on Saturday.

[Zenarcher]

Castlebay Isle Of Barra

Outdoor temp 10c

Outdoor humidity 75%

Pressure 1018mb

Wind direction South

Wind speed 6mph

Gust 20mph

Cloud Height 1774ft

Wet Bulb 8c

Rain in last 24hours 0.0mm

Total rainfall This Month 62mm

Dew Point 6c

Wind Chill 7c

Weather Partly cloudy dry dark

Over The Last 24hours averages and extra details,

Temperature rose 1.6c

Pressure dropped 8.2mb

Humidity dropped 3%

Average wind speed 18mph

Dewpoint rose 1c

Average wind direction East

Moon age 21 days 57%

Sunrise and Sunset 6:22am - 8:40pm

Moonrise and Moonset 3:48am - 9:54am

[Rainy]

My first ever post on NW ! Hope it works.

Can't find a suitable thread.

Just wondering is anyone else is suffering with hay-fever type symptoms today?

I've been working outdoors every day this week in this welcome dry but strong E wind.

Felt increasingly out of sorts, tired, sneezing and with sore eyes. Noticed similar problems sometimes other Aprils. I don't suffer later in the main hay fever times, thank goodness.

BBC Ceefax gives high tree pollen count for many areas at present. Other years birch pollen from Scandinavia was said to be causing problems in the UK.

Sure enough, a Google search under birch pollen shows there's an extra big surge in Denmark at present this season. Nicely upwind.

http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article689879.ece

[sunny scunny]

A cloudy,cool and breezy evening here. Temp is

8c after a max of 10c this afternoon.