Today's Weather And General Chat

[sunny scunny]

Post your reports and general weather chat here please.

[johnwirral]

Having a cigarette in the back garden (1:00am)with the Missus, just seen what looked like a fire ball from the Wirral heading north, visible through the clouds. Very bright never seen anything like it. Any other sightings?

This is not a Halloween hoax.

[MAF]

Grey Cloud

Temp: 12°C 54°F

Wind: SE 11mph 18km/h

Hum: 94%

Press: 1010mB, falling

Vis: Good

[Methuselah]

Cloudy but dry, 9C...

[MAF]

just checking the radar and it looks mighty wet out there. some big clumps of very heavy rain showing up

[Norman Closs]

just checking the radar and it looks mighty wet out there. some big clumps of very heavy rain showing up

like wise i checked it there some very nasty weather about could very easily get flooding priblems in some parts to.day

[sunny scunny]

Cloudy with heavy rain, and the winds are very light.

Current temp is 12c

[Lyn-M]

Very wet and very windy here in Dorset this morning, with more to come. I have to venture out shortly to take the readings.....

Johnwirral....could what you saw have been one of those Chinese flying lanterns that are so popular these days? We saw some a few weeks back, convinced that they were UFOs!

[Cymro]

Very wet and windy morning here in the Amman Valley, With the main road flooded at parts due to leaf clog up and heavy downpours river is also bursting it's banks. Winds are very strong gust of around 50mph atm

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Not windy here, but 8mm of rain so far to add to Friday night's 22mm. 9.9C

[Koppite]

Wet and windy.

[magicpatch]

Haven't got that very strong wind yet, it's breezy tho. But rather wet. Currently 13.9c and wet.

[Terminal Moraine]

Continuous moderate-heavy rain and a 28 mph SE wind, gusting to 43mph. 12.2mm rain from 1800 yesterday to 0900 today.

Vis' 600 mts. Temp' is 9.7c and still falling.

[MP-R]

Cloudy, breezy and mild this morning after earlier rain (5mm). Hoping there will be some proper heavy rain as forecast soon as the back edge of this area of rain is not far out the west at present. 14.9C

[grab my graupel]

Breezy and Wet

Wind Speed 14.8 mph

Wind Gust 21.5 mph

Wind Direction 127.0 °

Temperature 11.2 °C

Wind Chill 4.3 °C

Dew Point 11.0 °C

Humidity 97.0 %

Pressure 996.0 mBars

Rainfall 11.2 mm

[frostyjoe]

cloudy wet dull and windy with a temp of around 8c which is still dropping.....

[Methuselah]

No wind, but it's hosing it down with rain!

[Polar Continental]

Todays conditions and Readings @ 09:00 GMT:

Rain arrived here around 5am, was light initially, turned moderate to heavy through the morning giving 13.8mm leading up to observation. Wind gusting to 33mph south easterly.

Sky: 8 Oktas, Nimbostratus.

Temperature: 11.5°C

Wind Direction: Force 6 ESE

Humidity: 99%

Barometer: 996.0mb falling rapidly.

Today's readings for the 24 hrs up to 0900 GMT:

Maximum temperature: 16.4°C

Minimum temperature: 11.1°C

Minimum temperature on grass: 7.0°C

Rainfall total: 13.8 mm

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Yesterday:

Cloudy, mild, damp and misty to start the day after overnight light rain.

The morning turned brighter with a few sunny spells which contiued through in to the afternnon, very mild indeed for late October, high 16.4c. The wind was very light from the SE.

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October 2009:

Mean temperature: 11.1c (+ 0.9c)

Maximum temperature: 19.9c on the 6th

Minimum temperature: 0.5c on the 8th

Grass Minimum: -1.5c on the 8th

Rainfall = 55.0mm

Wettest 24 hours: on the 6th, 18.4mm

Maximum wind gust: 44mph W on the 3rd.

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2009 so far:

Maximum temperature: 30.4c on the 1ST July.

Minimum temperature: 7.3 on the 7th January

Grass Minimum: 9.4c on the 7th February

Rainfall: = 575.0mm

Wettest 24 hours: 23.3mm on the 7th June.

Maximum wind gust: 46mph 23rd March.

Edited November 1, 2009 by Polar Continental

[J10]

Was belting down out there but much drier now, however very windy 69mph at local weather station.

[Liam J]

very heavy rain at present, its so dark got the lights on in the house, 10c very little wind

[peterf]

vey heavy rain here since 4-30 ish,strong gusty wind.the dog wont even go out lol.

[PEMBS PIRATE]

IRISH SEA......Westerly gale force 8 increasing STORM 10 imminent

[SteveB]

A bit windy but very little in the way of rain, only 4mm so far.

Temp 15.9c

Humidity 93%

Dewpoint 14.7c

[glasgow-guy]

been raining heavy since around 5pm here in south lanarkshire

wind-7.5mph

gusts-13mph

accumulation 10.0mm

[reef]

Overcast with heavy rain. Currently it is 10.9C and 7.7mm has fallen so far. Not really too windy though, currently around 20mph ESE.

Still nice to see some Autumnal weather though!