Tuesday 6th March 2012 - Weather & General Chat

[Dorsetbred]

Mornin' All, currently:

Temp -0.5°C

DP -5.3°C

Rh 70%

Wind Calm

1025.0 mb STEADY

Conditions: Dry, clear and starry

[The PIT]

A cold dry start

temp 0.4c

wind f2 nnw

rainfall since midnight nil

[SteveB]

Cold frosty start,

Temp -0.1c

Humidity 83%

Dewpoint -2.3c

[sunsetter]

A frosty start, clear sky and calm

temp 1.6°C

pressure 1025.6mb rising slowly

RH 87%

dew point -0.3°C

wind calm

rain nil

[johnholmes]

sunny and frosty with white frost on cars and ice on small pond, no wind, about 3-4/8 thick Ci patches, lowest temperature=-0.1C its 0.6C now

[Evening thunder]

Frosty cold start with some high level cloud to the NW.

Temp: -2.4C

Dew: -2.9C

Humidity: 96%

Wind 2mph (N)

Pressure: 1027.1mb

Min temp: -2.6C just now.

[Snowangel-North]

Temperature 0.6 °C

Windchill 1 °C

Dew Point -1 °C

Wind

Speed / Dir 3.2 km/h / 0.9 m/s from WNW

Wind Gust 4.8 km/h

Conditions

Pressure 1026.0 hPa

Clouds Mostly Cloudy 426 m

Moisture

Humidity 86%

Rainfall 0 mm

Snow Depth 0 cm

Touch of frost this morning - quite chilly !

[Polar Maritime]

A lovely crisp morning here, was light at 6am clear blue sky's.

Temp -2

S/S/W Wind

Humidity 44%

10255mB

-4.6 Wind Chill

[Coast]

5.2°C

1023.9mb rising 0.6 mb/hr

Wind 8.7 mph gusting 16.2 mph max N

DP 1.9°C

Humidity 79%

No rain last 24 hours

Cloud base 1380 ft

A bit of a nip in the air this morning

[Polar Continental]

Tuesday 06th March 2012:

Clear skies lead to a widespread moderate frost overnight, thick freezing fog also formed during the early hours, low –4.2c with –7.8c on the grass. At observation, thick freezing fog, vis < 100 yards.

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

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 10.1°C

Minimum temperature overnight: -4.2°C

24-hour maximum = 10.1C

24-hour minimum: -4.2°C

Minimum temperature on grass: -7.8°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 29.7 mph. NNW

Rainfall total: 0.3 mm

Current Conditions:

9 Oktas: Obscured.

Visibility: about < 100 Yards.

Temperature: -2.0°C

Wind chill –2.0°C .

Humidity: 94%

Dew point –2.9°C

Wind Direction: Force 2 E

Barometer 1027 mb rising slowly.

Yesterday:

Wintry showers cleared away early last night and there were clear spells, a continued force 4-5 west to north westerly wind stopped the temperature from falling below 2.0c.

Grass low –0.9c, so a touch of ground frost. At observation, dry with sunny spells, windy, feeling cool. The day continued bright with sunny spells and a blustery north westerly wind.

March 2012 so Far

Mean temperature: 7.0c (+0.7c) of the local average)

Maximum temperature: 15.4 on the 1st

Minimum temperature: -4.2c on the 6th

Grass Minimum: -7.8c on the 6th

Rainfall = 12.2 mm

Wettest 24 hours = 6.3 mm on the 4th

Maximum wind gust: 34.8 mph NW on the 4th.

2012 so far

Maximum temperature: 17.7c on the 23rd February.

Minimum temperature: -8.9c on the 4th Feb

Grass Minimum: -11.2c on the 4th Feb

Rainfall = 102.8 mm

Wettest 24 hours, 17.2mm on the 4th Jan

Maximum wind gust: 48.6mph, NW 5th Jan

[Methuselah]

Dry and bright, 4C...

[Backtrack]

Clear blue skies again with the strong March sun really getting to work on those temperatures. It's 8C now after a low of around 0C last night (1.2C when I turned off my station at 4am) so I imagine 0C was the low.

[Zenarcher]

After a nice day yesterday currently wet and windy temp 7c and wind 35mph gusting to 48mph.

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry and mainly clear night last night and a dry and sunny day so far today.

Current temp' is 6.8c after a min' of -0.3c

Grass min' was -3.5c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0900, nil

Mean wind speed at 0900, 3 mph N

Current wind speed, 10 mph SW

2 oktas Ci

Vis', over 80 km.

[Andy Bown]

Today dawned clear and frosty with the minimum being -0.6c, the first sub zero morning since 12 February!!

It has been a mostly sunny and very pleasant day with cloud amounts incrasing slowly since 13.00 and there is now a layer of

Cirrus with scattered small Cumulus beneath it.

The maximum has been 8.4c and it's currently 8.2c with a gentle SW breeze, humidity is 72%.

[Stargazer]

A pleasant springlike day after a cold start with an air frost. Dry with long sunny spells, particularly in the afternoon. Currently sunny, 8.4 deg C, wind light SE. Today's maximum 10.8, last night's minimum -0.4.

[SteveB]

Lovely sunny day but with a chill in the breeze.

Max Temp 10.2c

Min Temp -0.1c

Current Temp 6.3c

[Terminal Moraine]

Dry and sunny until around 1430 when increasing high and medium level cloud turned it cloudy for the rest of the afternoon.

At 1800;

Temp', 5.6c

Max' today, 7.8c

Min' last night, -0.3c

Grass min', -3.5c

Rainfall from 0900-1800, nil

Sunshine today, 7.94 hrs

Mean wind speed, 12 mph S

Highest gust today, 19 mph SW at 1314

7 oktas Ac and Cst

Vis', 55 km.

[SP1986]

A warm morning and early afternoon, after a cool start. Cooled down in the afternoon.

Maximum: 12.2C

Minimum: 1.5C

Currently: 8.1C

[TonyH]

Clear and frosty last night, foggy by dawn.

Fog cleared by 0830 to give a sunny morning. Sunny intervals afternoon, cloudy by 1600. Quite mild and a moderate to fresh south wind.

A few spots of rain this evening.

Min: -2.3c @ 0730

Max: 11.5c @ 1230

Rain yesterday: Trace

Rain since 0900: Nil

Currently: Cloudy, recent rain.

Temp: 6c

RH: 89%

Pressure: 1022mbar, falling.

[Kent Snow]

1.9C, mostly clear, cool, wind light, 1026hPa.

[slaphead]

I don't know if anyone can confirm but my colleague says its was snowing on the North Downs near Dorking this morning AND settling. Don't think that was forecast!