26rh August 2011 Weather & General Chat

[Kent Snow]

16.2C, few cumulus, altostratus, bright, wind from the SW, 1004mb.

[SteveB]

Pressure 1000.8hPa

Temp 13.4c

Max Temp 14.9c

Min Temp 11.8c

Humidity 91%

Dewpoint 11.9c

Rainfall 6.7mm

Monthly Rainfall 73.5mm

[AderynCoch]

and just over the river a mostly sunny day ! It reached 20.2C earlier, fell back to 18.5C mid afternoon, despite the continuing sunshine.

I've actually been in Wallasey most of the day. Strange. There were some sunny breaks in the morning, but not that many.

[Isolated Frost]

Pressure 1000.8hPa

Temp 13.4c

Max Temp 14.9c

Min Temp 11.8c

Humidity 91%

Dewpoint 11.9c

Rainfall 6.7mm

Monthly Rainfall 73.5mm

Tiny range there! Amazing to see some of these maximums, roughly 6-7C off usual late August highs, cool end to a very cool summer, madness to think August may be the warmest month, shows how dreadful the summer is - with the exception of warm spells in late June, mid July and early August - April outshone them all. September will be nearly as warm as August IMO - with lows moving in, I think we'll get the warm eastern end, starting with ex-h Irene. If the lows can brush through the nation and hp ridges into the mid-atlantic however, a few frosty and wintry nights possible - September could be very good, and, unlike this summer, interesting in the UK

[sunny scunny]

Showery this morning and more general heavy rain late afternoon and early evening.Rather cool with a max temp of 14c.

[reef]

Overcast with moderate or heavy rain for much of the day. Exceptionally cool for late-August aswell with a max temp of 14.6C, which will make it the lowest since 2001.

Currently 12.9C and 96% humidity. 10.2mm of rain has fallen so far.

[Terminal Moraine]

Cloudy with light rain this morning then a spell of moderate-heavy rain from 1115 until about 1400 g.m.t. The heavy rain was accompanied by hill fog for a time but this cleared as the rain died out. After this it was cloudy and mainly dry with no more than a few spots of rain.

Today's max' of 12.4c was comparable with August 26th last year which had a max' of 11.9c.

At 1800 g.m.t;

Temp', 11.8c

Max' today, 12.4c

Min' last night, 9.8c

Grass min', 6.3c

Rainfall from 0800-1800 g.m.t, 9.4 mm

Sunshine today, nil

Mean wind speed, 6 mph NW

Highest gust today, 16 mph NW at 1757 g.m.t

8 oktas St

Vis', 30 km.

[Isolated Frost]

Overcast with moderate or heavy rain for much of the day. Exceptionally cool for late-August aswell with a max temp of 14.6C, which will make it the lowest since 2001.

Currently 12.9C and 96% humidity. 10.2mm of rain has fallen so far.

Durham observatory only reached 13.8C today! And it's incredible to see the lowest max in August since 2001 when the source isn't that cold and the uppers are 2-6C around the nation, aswell as a Southerly flow. I guess it's faux pas as the Sw'ly in December that was cool.

[SP1986]

I've actually been in Wallasey most of the day. Strange. There were some sunny breaks in the morning, but not that many.

Yes we were near the edge of the cloud band that covered what seemed to be most of Wirral and Liverpool, but to the southwest/SSW, it was blue sky all the way, and as a consequence we got sunshine for most of the afternoon!

[AderynCoch]

Thunder and lightning here now, coming from Heswall way actually. The sky's gone a pinkish-orange colour.

Edited August 26, 2011 by AderynCoch

[Stargazer]

Cool, cloudy and wet in the morning, with the rain becoming heavy at times. Bright intervals in the afternoon with a couple of showers. Currently partly cloudy, 13.9 deg C, wind light NW. Today's maximum 17.5, last night's minimum 13.4.

[Geordiesnow]

Durham observatory only reached 13.8C today! And it's incredible to see the lowest max in August since 2001 when the source isn't that cold and the uppers are 2-6C around the nation, aswell as a Southerly flow. I guess it's faux pas as the Sw'ly in December that was cool.

It would probably be down to the winds coming in from the Sea and coupled with the rain, it creates cool conditions, nothing particuarly unusual really. The dewpoints were quite high and that tells you we are in modest air rather than anything particuarly cool.

Be interesting too see what the temps will be in Northern & Eastern Scotland on Sunday with even cooler uppers and heavy rain, temperatures could struggle to get into double figures. I punt Aberdeen won't get any higher than 11C if the rain lasts all day.

As you say, dull cloudy day with moderate rain at times, there was a heavier downpour this morning but thats about as exciting the weather got unfortunately. Certainly seen more miserable days than this though thats for sure.

[Jon Somerset]

Bridgwater also suffers from the close sea and todays continual rain added to the cold making us a 13C high as well. No sun despite forecast. Drier inland at home nr Somerton but no warmer at 5.30 pm,

I am not going to complain as I am not sufferring the onset of a hurricane or a famine, so will count my luck stars instead (if the clouds part for a while).

[Ben_Cambs]

Looks like the last of any rain for a while for here at least, 12mm fell today, which isn't too bad. A paltry max of 16.8C before the rain got going again this afternoon.

[TonyH]

Report from Bangor North Wales:

Clear cool last night.

Sunny intervals and virtually dry today

Moderate nw breeze rather cool.

Back home very cool last night then sunny intervals and a few showers today

Min 5.2c

Max 18.2c

Rain yesterday 3mm approx

Rain since 10am 1mm approx

Current ly clear 11c

Pressure 1008mbar rising slowly

[PMPhotography]

Interesting day here in Scarborough. None stop moderate to heavy rain since around 8am and It's still coming down. Current rainfall for today is 24.3mm with a max temp of 13.6C.