Today's Weather And General Chat

[sunny scunny]

Post your weather reports here please

[SteveB]

Dry cloudy start,

Temp 9.6c

Humidity 85%

Dewpoint 7.5c

[Snowangel-MK]

Temperature 13.9 °C

Dew Point 6 °C

Wind

Speed/ Dir 12.9 km/h / 3.6 m/s fromVariable

WindGust 19.3 km/h

Conditions Dry and bright

Pressure 1029.0 hPa

Visibility Clear

Clouds N/A

Moisture

Humidity 56%

Rainfall 0 mm

[Coast]

12.7 DgC

1026.8 mb rising 0.2 mb/hr

Wind 4.9 mph gusting 12.7 mph max N/NW

DP 7.1 DgC

Humidity 68%

No rain last 24 hours

Cloud base 2375 ft

Bright, sunny and clear.

[johnholmes]

dry and fairly sunny with a W'ly breeze, patches of Sc Ac and Ci, about 3/8 in total; min was 7.8C its now 12.9C

[johnholmes]

forgive this off topic really but the first day of summer it may be but not in the Alps!

This at 6700ft in the Jungfrau, yesterday it was 12C

[sunny scunny]

A pleasant sunny start, but the cloud is slowly building.Current temp is 14c with light winds.

[conor123]

New month same old garbage, clear night and now 100% cloudcover already which will break up after 4pm as usual.

[Ben_Cambs]

Very pleasant start to the day, clear blue skies with a light breeze. Temperature is already up to 16.4C after an overnight low of 4.4C

[Polar Continental]

Wednesday: 01st June 2011:

Clear spells and cool overnight, though there was enough breeze, which helped prevent a ground frost. Low 4.9c, with 1.9c on the grass. Up to observation, dry with sunny spells, though has turned overcast from the west over the last 5 minutes.

7 Oktas, Stratocumulus, Altocumulus.

Temperature: 14.5°C

Humidity: 76%

Dew point 10.3c

Wind Direction: Force 4 WSW

Barometer:1029 mb rising slowly.

Today's readings for the 24 hrs up to 0:900 GMT:

Maximum daytime temperature yesterday: 16.0°C

Minimum temperature overnight: 4.9°C

24-hour maximum = 16.0°C

24-hour minimum: 4.9C

Minimum temperature on grass: 1.9°C

Rainfall total: 0.3mm

Yesterday:

Clear spells overnight, low 5.1c. Sunny spells up to observation with showers developing locally. The day continued bright with sunny spells, showers broke, some heavy, though this location only saw one very short moderate shower. Feeling pleasant in the sun and out of the wind.

May 2011 so far:

Mean temperature: 12.3c (+0.9c) of the local average)

Maximum temperature: 22.7 on the 6th.

Minimum temperature: -0.5c on the 4th

Grass Minimum: -3.8c on the 4th

Rainfall = 56.2 mm

Wettest 24 hours, 16.7 mm on the 8thh

Maximum wind gust: 41.2mph, SSW 22nd.

2011 so far:

Maximum temperature: 25.5 on the 23rd April.

Minimum temperature: -7.0c on the 31st Jan

Grass Minimum: -10.4c on the 31st Jan

Rainfall = 164.1 mm

Wettest 24 hours, 16.7mm on the 7th May

Maximum wind gust: 56.8mph, SSE 7th Feb

[Wynn D Woo]

very much grey and cool and not a patch on yesterday and its sunshine, currently 15.8C and slowly rising.

[Evening thunder]

Warming up a bit now after another rather cool min at 2.1C. Currently 16.4C and mostly cloudy but with a few more breaks appearing.

[Stormyking]

Hi Everyone, im going to start doing Daily weather reports

Weather report Wednesday 1st June 2011:

Weather: It is currently Sunny and a warmer than the last few days, there is a tad breeze outside with a lot of high cloud but of cirrus so there is a load of blue sky as well.

Temperature: 17.9c

Dew Point 11.2c

Humidity: 65%

Wind Speed 6.4mph

Wind Gust 6.4mph

Wind Direction South

Pressure: 1030.4hPa

Precipitation 0.0mm

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Highs and Lows:

High Temperature 18.1c

Low Temperature 9.1c

High Dewpoint 7.4c

Low Dewpoint 6.2c

High Humidity 87%

Low Humidity 85%

High Wind speed 20.9km/h

High Wind Gust: 20.9km/h

Average Wind Direction NW

High pressure 1030.4hPa

Low Pressure 1027.7hPa

Precipitation 0.0mm

[Andy Bown]

Today dawned sunny with small patches of Altocumulus and Cirrus.

I presume a warm front then arrived as the cloud increased with the base lowering quite quickly while a few breaks remained

to allow hazy sunny spells.

16.2c at the moment with hazy sunshine increasing.

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry night with clear periods and a dry morning with sunny intervals and variable amounts of Acu, Ci and St.

The current temp' is 16.1c after a min' of 5.8c and a grass min' of 2.3c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0800 g.m.t, trace

Mean wind speed, 15 mph SW

Vis', 60 km.

[Summer of '47]

Very pleasant day despite high cloud increasing and a slightly cooling breeze. Pretty much uninterrupted sunshine here so far.

@15.00 BST

Temp = 21.2 °C

RHum = 29%

Baro = 1028.2

Wind = light, swirling about a bit but mostly NW

[conor123]

The weather in Telford again today, just took out the window, the past month must of been one of the cloudiest May-June spells on record here.

[Lancashire Lass]

It's been cloudy with a light breeze for most of the day but the temperature has been steadily rising. Currently 17.6C.

[Anti Boring Weather]

New month same old garbage, clear night and now 100% cloudcover already which will break up after 4pm as usual.

agree mate this always happens, cloudy here too but it will be a nice clear night then cloud will build by noon 2moro

[TonyH]

The cloud cleared to give a lovely warm sunny end to this afternoon now. 19c.

Did you not have a sunny day yesterday Conor? Shawbury was the sunniest place in the west mids with 10 hours. Most of England had above average sun for May so perhaps your expectations of the British climate are pitched at an unrealistic level.

[Kent Snow]

19.1C, cirrus, sunny, wind light, 1030mb.

[conor123]

The cloud cleared to give a lovely warm sunny end to this afternoon now. 19c.

Did you not have a sunny day yesterday Conor? Shawbury was the sunniest place in the west mids with 10 hours. Most of England had above average sun for May so perhaps your expectations of the British climate are pitched at an unrealistic level.

My expectations are not unrealistic at all.

This is what its like 9am-5pm, took a few hours ago.

However suddenly when 5pm passes, just took this out my window as proof, almost always goes like this in the evening and starts like this in the morning.

More evidence of the Telford greyness in action recently.

The 15 minutes of sunshine between 9am-5pm has come from little gaps in the clouds like these.

Yes there might of been 10 hours of sunshine in Shawbury yesterday but not here, 4:45am to 9am = 4.25 hours in the morning, 9am-5pm = 15 minutes of the course of 8 hours, 5pm-9pm = 4 hours = 8.5 Hours of Sunshine so its easy to see how the sunshine hours can stack up on a rubbish day.

Personally i dont like sitting in the garden or hiking at 7am and the sun moves off the garden in the evening so its a waste of time for me.

There were only 5 days in May that were relatively sunny in the 9am-5pm period here, any sunshine that stacked up for the rest of the month came from the description above.

I wish i was exaggerating i really do but im really not and it never used to be this consistantly cloudy here.

For evidence:

May not above average here sunshine wise,

April

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/anomacts/2011/4/2011_4_Sunshine_Anomaly_1971-2000.gif

Small section over Shropshire notice.

July 2010

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/anomacts/2010/7/2010_7_Sunshine_Anomaly_1971-2000.gif

I can provide plenty more evidence if you still need to be convinced but this post is getting rather long :lol:

Edited June 1, 2011 by conor123

[TonyH]

But that is the nature of British (especially inland) weather, that as I am sure you well know convection is likely to produce cloudy late morning/ afternoon periods. Shawbury (I know its not Telford but its likely very similar), had approximately 175 hours sunshine last month (slightly below average, and that was nowhere near offsetting the very sunny April there and elsewhere:

Recent sunshine Shawbury

Also, this equates to below 6 hours a day on average, and in some years 175 hours would have been the sunniest month of the year so basically last month was far from lacking in sunshine, and if you feel it was you are in for constant disappointment living in Britain:

Shawbury long term data

[SteveB]

Pressure 1032.5hPa

Temp 17.0c

Max Temp 17.2c

Min Temp 9.5c

Humidity 76%

Dewpoint 12.7c

Rainfall 0.0mm

Monthly Rainfall 0.0mm

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry day with sunny intervals during the morning and early afternoon. Clouding over after 1330 g.m.t as a sheet of Stcu rolled in from the west.

At 1800 g.m.t;

Temp', 15.6c

Max' today, 17.6c

Min' last night, 5.8c

Grass min', 2.3c

Rainfall from 0800-1800 g.m.t, nil

Sunshine today so far, 4.93 hrs

Mean wind speed, 10 mph W

Highest gust today, 29 mph SW at 0747 g.m.t

Vis', over 80 km.

Edited June 1, 2011 by Terminal Moraine