Todays Weather And General Chat

[MAF]

Last one of the year

Post your reports and general chat here please

[igloo]

heavy snow showers temp 0.0 dewpoint -1.0 wind from the NE

[MAF]

Grey Cloud

Temp (°C°F) 3°C 37°F

Wind (mphkm/h) North Easterly 9mph 14km/h

Humidity: 95%

Pressure: 996mB, rising

Visibility: Moderate

[Polar Continental]

A much clearer start, with a widespread ground frost, low 0.3c and –3.4c on the grass. Feeling cold in a moderate northeast wind.

Sky:3 Oktas, Cirrostratus, Cirrus, Cirrocumulus.

Temperature: 0.4°C

Wind Direction: Force 3 NE.

Humidity: 94%

Barometer: 1004mb rising..

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

Maximum temperature: 2.9°C

Minimum temperature: 0.3°C

Minimum temperature on grass: -3.4°C

Rainfall total: 16.7mm

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Light to moderate sleet and wet snow over night has changed back to continuous moderate rain this morning. Total rain since 09:00 yesterday is 16.7mm. The day continued with intermittent light to moderate rain, feeling cold and raw in the strong north east wind, the wind chill ranged between –5c and –2c for the most part. Maximum wind gust 32mph, ENE. Maximum temperature 2.9c.

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December 2009 so far:

Mean temperature: 2.4c (-1.9 of the local average)

Maximum temperature: 11.9c on the 5th

Minimum temperature: -8.3c on the 19th

Grass Minimum: -10.0c on the 19th

Rainfall = 76.8mm

Wettest 24 hours: on the 5th, 19.3mm

Maximum wind gust: 40mph ESE on the 7th.

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2009 so far:

Maximum temperature: 30.4c on the 1st July.

Minimum temperature: –8.3 on the 10th December

Grass Minimum: –10.0c on the 19th December

Rainfall: = 752.70mm

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

Maximum wind gust: 46mph 23rd March.

[SteveB]

Dry cloudy start

Temp 2.9c

[meerkat63]

Temp. 0.8c

Dewpoint -3.0c

Humidity 78%

Mean wind speed 1mph NE

1000.1mb

Sunshine with patchy cloud. Such a contrast to yesterday!

[Terminal Moraine]

Cold, dry and bright with sunny intervals and 4 oktas ci and stcu. Temp' at 0900 was -0.2c and is now just above 0c.

Rainfall in 24 hrs to 0900, 1.5 mm

Patches of lying snow but 50% cover only above 340 m, however hills a few miles to the north have a complete cover down to about 300m, how annoying is that!!

Mean wind speed is 23 mph NE.

[Kent Snow]

4.2C, light rain, broken cumulus, wind from the NE, 998mb.

[Lowestoft]

Breezy and overcast. Not cold. North Sea looks quite choppy. Happy New Year, hope you get some weather that's more interesting than mine. If not just get drunk.

[Snowyowl9]

9inches on snow now!!!!,and more drifting overnight and with a min or -0.8c and partly cloudy.

The wetter snow yesterday all froze and left blobs of ice on the trees,thawing slowly off them,with a gentle NE wind and sunny with some mid-level cloud and high cloud going in different directions.

Edited December 31, 2009 by Snowyowl9

[sunny scunny]

Rather cloudy and cold with a temp of 3c.

[SteveB]

Cloudy dry afternoon.

Temp 3.6c

[Verglas]

temp 1.7c, dp -2.1c

dry, calm, not lot of anything really !

[Jamie.]

Mostly cloudy, 2'C.

[BornFromTheVoid]

Skies have just cleared and the temperature in plumetting! Down 1.5C in the last 30 mins. Currently 0.3C, with light north easterly breeze.

If anyone's interested, here's a link to the Ireland cold thread, to a few pics I took while up the Galtee Mountains near where I live, the snow was over 4ft in some places!

[meerkat63]

Temp. -0.1c

Dewpoint -2.0c

Humidity 84%

1000.2mb

Dry, little or no wind

[Andy Bown]

After two very dull days today started cloudy before the cloud broke up in the late morning to allow some sunshine through the afternoon. There was (and still is) a biting NNE breeze with today's max being 3.5c, at present it's partly cloudy, breezy and 2.2c.

[Snowyowl9]

Max of 1.4c and a mainly sunny day with quite abit of cloud but not over the sun,getting very cold now -1.9c with this snowcover.

[Stargazer]

A dry day at last with bright spells after two days of continuous rain. Current conditions: cloudy, 2.9 deg C. Maximum 4.3, minimum 2.3, wind moderate NE.

[SteveB]

Today’s weather

Pressure 1003.8hPa

Current Temp 2.4c

Highest Temp 4.1c

Lowest Temp 2.4c

Humidity 89%

Dewpoint 0.7c

Windchill -6.2c

Min Windchill -7.4C

Current Windspeed 12.3mph

Max Windspeed 16.7mph

Wind direction NE

Rain Total .5mm

Monthly Rain Total 58.0mm

[BornFromTheVoid]

Clear skies, -0.1C and a very light north easterly breeze.

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry day apart from a few flakes of snow around 1100. Sunny periods throughout with variable amounts of stcu, cu and alcu.

It's amazing how the perception of 'wintriness' is changed, even when it's cold, when the snow cover is gone.

At 1800;

Temp', -0.5c

Max' today, 1.3c

Min' last night, -0.4c

Grass min', -2.0c

Rainfall from 0900-1800, trace

Sunshine today, 3.91 hrs

Mean wind speed, 16 mph NE

Highest gust today, 36 mph NE at 1228

4 oktas altocumulus

Vis', over 80 km

Patches of snow covering 10% of the ground.

[TonyH]

Coventry report

Cold and breezy today with sunny intervals but cloudy at times. A few sleety spots mid afternoon.

Min +0.7c

Max 3.6c

Rain yesterday 4.7mm

Currently clear intervals temp 0.2c.

Happy New Year to all out there!

[meerkat63]

Temp. -1.2c

Dewpoint -3.0c

Humidity 87%

1001.3mb

Light snow flurries, little or no wind.

Happy New Year to all.

[sunny scunny]

Clear and cold with a current temp of 1c.