Friday 23rd December 2011 Weather & General Chat

[Dorsetbred]

Mornin' All, currently:

Temp 11.1°C

DP 7.2°C

Rh 77%

Wind 19.4kts SW

1018.4mb FALLING SLOWLY

Conditions: Breezy, dry & overcast

[SteveB]

Dry mild start,

Temp 10.3c

Humidity 88%

Dewpoint 8.3c

[Snowangel-MK]

Temperature 9 °C

Dew Point 7 °C

Wind

Speed / Dir 26 km/h / 7.2 m/s from SW

Wind Gust

Conditions

Pressure 1015 hPa

Clouds Few 609 m

Mostly Cloudy 914 m

Moisture

Humidity 87%

Rainfall 0 mm

Snow Depth 0 cm

[Coast]

10.6°C

1016.2 mb falling 0.4mb/hr

Wind 8.1 mph gusting 14.4 mph max W/NW

DP 9.4°C

Humidity 92%

0.2mm rain last 24 hours

Cloud base 514 ft

Overcast, damp and mild

[johnholmes]

cloudy but dry, rain not far away showing on the radar, bit of a breeze from the WSW, another mild night with a 'low' of 10.4C, higher than the average max for this time of the year.

[Polar Continental]

Friday 23rd December 2011:

Cloudy and very mild overnight, quite windy. The morning so far has been dry, cloudy, breezy and mild.

Today's readings for the 24 hrs up to 09:00 GMT:

7 Oktas: Stratocumulus.

Visibility: about 10 miles.

Temperature: 9.6°C

Humidity: 92%

Dew point 8.4°C

Wind Direction: Force 4-5 SW

Barometer:1014mb falling.

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 12.2°C

Minimum temperature overnight: 9.9°C

24-hour maximum = 12.2°C

24-hour minimum: 9.5°C

Minimum temperature on grass: 6.7°C

Rainfall total: tr mm

Yesterday:

Variable cloud overnight, mild and damp. At observation, bright, mild and damp. Continuing with bright and sunny spell, staying damp. Cloud increased to overcast by mid afternoon. Very mild.

December: 2011 so far:

Mean temperature: 4.2c (-0.1c) of the local average)

Maximum temperature: 12.8 on the 8th.

Minimum temperature: -3.3c on the 10th

Grass Minimum: -6.4c on the 18th

Rainfall = 60.1mm

Wettest 24 hours = 10.7mm on the 17th

Maximum wind gust: 45.6 mph W on the 8th.

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 = 482.3 mm

Wettest 24 hours, 22.5mm on the 24th Aug

Maximum wind gust: 56.8mph, SSE 7th Feb

[trickydicky]

Christmas Floodin'

[Kent Snow]

10.1C, stratocumulus, grey, wind from the SW, 1019hPa.

[Methuselah]

Dry, bright and breezy, 12C...

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry, cloudy and very mild night. A few spots of light rain by 0700 but predominantly dry until 0830 when intermittent drizzle arrived from the west.

Currently continuous moderate rain but at 0900 there was intermittent moderate drizzle with a temp' of 7.9c

The min' was 7.5c and the grass min', 6.6c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0900, trace

Mean wind speed, 21 mph SW

8 oktas St

Vis', 15 km.

[TonyH]

Very active cold frontal passage just now: very heavy rain with 6mm in the past hour and some 13mm so far in total, drop of 2c to 8c in the hour, and the strong, blustery wind has suddenly veered from SSW to NNW.

Still a good couple of hours heavy rain to come, December is turning into a wet month

[Bobby]

Lots of heavy rain here too, 17.5mm so far. Looks like we may just make average for the month.

[Andy Bown]

Dull and windy and mostly dry so far although some drizzle in the last half an hour.

10.9c and rising ahead of the Cold Front.

[alr1970]

Wet in Manchester, cooler than yesterday, but still nowhere near cold. Is that a wave developing on the front?

[TonyH]

Does seem to be starting to circulate yes. Down to 6c here, still heavy ran, and the wind veered NNE.

[knocker]

Foul is about the only word to describe the weather this morning. Continuous moderate rain, temp of 11C with a SW wind 23mph gusting 36. Should see some improvement when the fronts are through.

[conor123]

A very mild night last night due to generally cloudy skies with temperatures hovering between 10-11c.

Rainy since around 9am today, very heavy at times and after a mild morning its now cooled off considerably at 6.1c

[Liam Ellis]

Some really heavy rain around - with plenty of flood warnings closing a few roads accross Wales. Gone really cold here too (LL55 - NW Wales), local stations recording 3.6C, I'm pretty sure the rain is quite sleety at the moment.

[TonyH]

Must be some flooding through Wales now with this deluge. 19mm since 0900, close to an inch since midnight.

Temperature steady at 6c now, the back edge is approaching.

[Evening thunder]

Well, this is bizarre, We had a bit of rain and a brief heavy bit from the squall line feature, then a rather strong gusty NW wind.

But now according to the radar we are in the middle of the rain band with more to come, yet Dartmoor is blocking it quite a lot so it was mainly light, and now a hole has opened up in the middle of the front and apart from some low level stratocumulus the sky is pure blue above with some sunshine! Meanwhile moderate/heavy rain is still piled across West + Central Devon which was the case with the stuff coming this way earlier, but that turned to sunshine!

Just 1.6mm from the front here.

Over a 5C temp drop so far as it has dropped from 11.9C earlier to 6.8C now.

[Bobby]

Front has largely cleared here leaving 30mm of rain.

[Kent Snow]

9.5C, light rain, broken cumulus, wind from the SW, 1010hPa.

[SteveB]

Pressure 1013.8hPa

Temp 6.2c

Max Temp 11.9c

Min Temp 6.2c

Humidity 89%

Dewpoint 4.5c

Rainfall 3.1mm

Monthly Rainfall 68.8mm

[Stargazer]

Dry cloudy start, light rain from late morning onwards becoming moderate at times in the afternoon. The rain has cleared in the past hour and the temperature has dropped fast. Currently overcast, 5.1 deg C, wind moderate W. Today's maximum 11.2, last night's minimum 5.8.

Yesterday: dry, sunny and pleasant for December. Clouded over in the afternoon. Maximum 12.5, minimum 8.2. Wind moderate W.

[Terminal Moraine]

Front has largely cleared here leaving 30mm of rain.

I can only weep with envy!

A mild and cloudy morning and early afternoon with light rain and drizzle at first giving way to continuous moderate rain from about 1000 until mid-afternoon. Showers followed after 1630 and these became squally and turned to sleet as the temp' fell from a max' of 8.2c around midday to 2.8c by 1730.

At 1800;

Temp', 3.2c

Max' today, 8.2c

Min' last night, 7.5c

Grass min', 6.6c

Rainfall from 0900-1800, 14.0 mm

Sunshine today, nil

Mean wind speed, 32 mph NW

Highest gust today, 59 mph NW at 1727

7 oktas Cu and Ast

Vis', 30 km.

Shower of sleet in past half hour.