6th October 2011 Weather And General Chat

[Polar Continental]

Thursday 06th October 2011:

Windy overnight and there were some moderate bursts of showery rain through the early hours, clear conditions spread in from the west by around 03:00 GMT. Dry, bright and windy up to observation, feeling cool in the wind.

3 Oktas: Cumulus fractus.

Temperature: 10.4C

Humidity: 75%

Dew point 6.1C

Wind Direction: Force 6-7 W

Barometer: 1009mb rising.

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

Maximum daytime temperature yesterday: 19.9°C

Minimum temperature overnight: 7.3°C

24-hour maximum = 19.9°C

24-hour minimum: 7.3°C

Minimum temperature on grass: 6.1°C

Rainfall total: 6.7 mm

Yesterday:

Cloudy, breezy, dry and very mild overnight, low 15.2c. Dry, windy and cloudy to observation. The day stayed overcast, and dry for the most part, very windy, top gust, 42.2 SSW. Despite the wind it felt warm, top temperature 19.9c. The evening saw light rain and drizzle spreading in to the area.

October: 2011 so far:

Mean temperature: 18.1c (+ 7.9c) of the local average)

Maximum temperature: 28.2 on the 1st.

Minimum temperature: 7.3c on the 6th

Grass Minimum: 6.1c on the 6th

Rainfall = 7.1mm

Wettest 24 hours 6.7mm on the 5th.

Maximum wind gust: 41.2 mph SSW on the 5th.

2011 so far:

Maximum temperature: 29.1 on the 27th June.

Minimum temperature: -7.0c on the 31st Jan

Grass Minimum: -10.4c on the 31st Jan

Rainfall = 343.6 mm

Wettest 24 hours, 22.5mm on the 24th Aug

Maximum wind gust: 56.8mph, SSE 7th Feb

[GulberwickWeather]

Annoyingly, it won't be our first single-digit maximum of the season today whatever happens, because at midnight, it was 10.2º.

Might manage it here, highest temp since midnight so far = 9.1C

[Isolated Frost]

Just had a really blustery shower, heavy intense rain with some hail!

Just had a really blustery shower, heavy intense rain with some hail! Now clearing again, anticipating some more heavy showers throughout the afternoon looking at radar.

[user700]

Windy here today no thunder storms yet.

[peterf]

very windy here with heavy showers blowing in,really cold out in the wind.

[penicuikblizz]

Hail and sleet mixed in the heaviest showers here in Penicuik, a nice wintery feel today!!

[Cheshire Freeze]

Clear blue skies here and dry. Was obvious from the outset to me that the showers would concentrate north of here as the wind is too westerly to penetrate the showers down. The same has happened the past 2 winters with that same wind direction- inches and inches of snow just 15 miles north with zilch here.

[GulberwickWeather]

Well its now 1233 the temp reached a max of 9.6C and has now fallen back so I think I can safely claim a single figure max for today!

[Cheese Rice]

Single figure max likely here too!

So far max of 9.c, under showers around 6-7c.

Mixture of hail and some rain with strong gusty winds.

Feels like a wintry old day today!

Edited October 6, 2011 by Cheese Rice

[BornFromTheVoid]

14.0C here 70% RH. Mostly sunny with the odd moderate shower. Feels quite nippy out in the wind though.

[Andy Bown]

Autumn has well and truly arrived today with a very strong, gusty and cool WNW wind!

It's actually been quite a sunny morning after early showers but showers are now arriving quickly from the West.

12.1c after being 14.2c 15 minutes ago, humidity 67%.

[19jacobob93]

6°C at the moment here with frequent heavy showers with hail.

Meanwhile in the Highlands

http://www.winterhighland.info/cams/glencoe/

[Stargazer]

Dry and mainly sunny so far; feeling much colder than recently in the fresh W wind. Currently 14.8 deg C after an overnight minimum of 10.6.

[Lake District Blizzard]

temperature drop from 10c to 6c in the last 30 mins, with horizontal rain and hail in 30-40mph gusts, wind chill of around 0c

Edit - 10 minutes later its calm and bright

Edited October 6, 2011 by rjd1000

[alex131297]

Max temp so far: 13.8

Min temp: 10c

Currently gusts of 30+mph winds, temp 13c, and pouring down with rain

[reef]

A mixture of sunshine and showers with a strong and gusty wind. Rather cool at the moment with a temperature of 9.5C after the latest shower passed over. Overnight was actually quite mild so thats the min temp of the day so far. The max was 14.7C at midnight.

As Mr Data says, today at this time is around 18 degrees cooler than Saturday!

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Irritatingly reached 10.1º earlier, but now back down to 7.7º and showery....3.8mm of rain so far.

[lizmartin1981]

It feels colder than it is here, very blustery day, changing from lovely sunshine one moment to overcast and dull the next. Currently 14.6, with a dew point of 5.2. Overnight low of 8.1c which is the coldest it's been in i don't know how long

[Weather-history]

Hail at times in the squally showers. Seems a long time ago since I have seen a squally rain/hail shower.

[Isolated Frost]

My favourite type of day! Sunny and cold with several wintry squalls.

Currently 8c under heavy rain and hail showers, was 12c 10 minutes ago in pristine sunshine. Frequent alternating spells, and extremely blustery under the showers. Beauty! Just 5c lower and some snow would have been dominant - but I'll take this weather all winter (maybe some snowy days like this in there aswell).

[Isolated Frost]

SW Scotland and N Ireland is currently a melting pot for heavy, heavy showers banding together - aswell as in N Wales, and W Scotland and the NW of England - some very heavy localised showers in the south especially.

I'd expect NE England and NW England to get hit by some showers soon.

[AderynCoch]

Another very windy day with some fierce squalls of rain and hail. I would say October has finally begun, but it feels more like spring than autumn.

[Cheshire Freeze]

SW Scotland and N Ireland is currently a melting pot for heavy, heavy showers banding together - aswell as in N Wales, and W Scotland and the NW of England - some very heavy localised showers in the south especially.

I'd expect NE England and NW England to get hit by some showers soon.

lol how about this part of southern NW England- we may aswell be lumped together with the Midlands in this scenario.

The other half was reporting thunder and lightning in Stockport around an hour or so ago.

Edited October 6, 2011 by CreweCold

[Isolated Frost]

lol how about this part of southern NW England- we may aswell be lumped together with the Midlands in this scenario.

The other half was reporting thunder and lightning in Stockport around an hour or so ago.

I'd imagine between 5pm and 6pm you should start seeing some precip, could be very heavy for you by 6pm-7pm. Possibly last a couple of hours if it keeps it's current intensity.

[Aaron]

Very dark, wet and windy here, lights are on and it is 9.6c