Sunday 29th April - Weather And General Chat

[The PIT]

A cold wet windy start with light rain at times

temp 3.9C

rainfall 1.8mm

wind f5 nne

[Polar Maritime]

Morning.

What a horrible morning out there today, Heavy rain, Dull, Windy Cold. Overnight low of 1.7c. 4mm rain since Midnight, 182mm Rain so far this month.

Temp 2c

Wind Chill -3c

Humidity 71%

Borometer 1011mb -1013mb/ph

Wind N/E 22mph, Gusting 38mph

[johnholmes]

cold and breezy with light rain, lowest temperature is now with 5.5C-unpleasant day ahead?

[Cakie]

Wet and wild again out there. Been very strong winds all night, keeps dying down but then starting up again. Currently 4.6c, with windchill of 0.9c 7.5 km/h average but some really strong gusts

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Morning.

What a horrible morning out there today, Heavy rain, Dull, Windy Cold. Overnight low of 1.7c. 4mm rain since Midnight, 182mm Rain so far this month.

Temp 2c

Wind Chill -3c

Humidity 71%

Borometer 1011mb -1013mb/ph

Wind N/E 22mph, Gusting 38mph

Was thinking you would have snow

[sunsetter]

It's really miserable out there this morning. Wet, cold and quite blustery.

temp 6.2°C

wind chill 4.2°C

pressure 997.4mb falling

humidity 89%

dewpoint 4.5°C

wind 5.8mph NE

gust 21.8mph NE

rain 2.1mm

cloudbase 686ft

[Darren Bown]

Very windy here too this morning from my bed. Whistling around the house!

[Terminal Moraine]

Light-moderate sleet and rain set in around 0400 g.m.t and has continued since, becoming heavier in the last half hour.

At 0800 g.m.t;

Temp', 2.4c

24 hr max', 8.4c

24 hr min', 1.6c

Grass min', 2.0c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0800 g.m.t, 3.5 mm

Mean wind speed, 28 mph N/NE

8 oktas Ns

Continuous moderate rain falling

Vis', 12 km.

[Polar Maritime]

Was thinking you would have snow

A little sleet mixed into the heavy bursts now, but nothing notable. Mostly rain.

[The PIT]

Rain turning to sleet here should be some snow around on top. Wonder if we'll get any evaporative cooling. None so far.

[sunny scunny]

Cloudy and cool with moderate rain.Temp is 6c with 3.3mm of rain so far.

[Coast]

10.4°C

995.3 mb falling 0.3 mb/hr

Wind 15.7 mph gusting 25.2 mph max E/NE

DP 9.5°C

Humidity 94%

7.6mm rain last 24 hours

Cloud base 361 ft

Looks like even more rain on the way, currently dark and cloudy.

[Polar Maritime]

Rain turning to sleet here should be some snow around on top. Wonder if we'll get any evaporative cooling. None so far.

-5.2c Dew Point here now, Bitter outside.

[Snowangel-MK]

Temperature 5.9 °C

Windchill 4 °C

Dew Point 6 °C

Wind

Speed / Dir 9.7 km/h / 2.7 m/s from NNE

Wind Gust 19.3 km/h

Conditions

Pressure 1007 hPa

Clouds Mostly Cloudy 152 m

Moisture

Humidity 98%

Rainfall 16 mm (since midnight)

Cold...wet....windy...

[Evening thunder]

Wet and windy with persistent moderate rain at the moment. My anemometer is slightly sheltered from the NE perhaps but it did pick up one gust of 44mph at 5:27am. It did seem to have eased just little recently but sounds a bit winder again now.

Temp: 6.0C

Dew point: 4.8C

Humidity: 93%

Wind: avg 14mph gusting 32mph in last half hour (slightly sheltered)

Pressure: 997.7mb

Rain today so far: 15.8mm and counting

Wet and wild again out there. Been very strong winds all night, keeps dying down but then starting up again. Currently 4.6c, with windchill of 0.9c 7.5 km/h average but some really strong gusts

It certainly is, someone I know on facebook posted a photo of a large oak tree right across A3052 at Sidmouth Waitrose at about 5am, as they were called out to help clear it.

[Polar Continental]

Sunday 29th April 2012:

Strong north easterly winds overnight with sub-zero wind chill. Rain reached this location around 05:00 GMT. The morning to observation has been overcast, windy, cold and raw, with continuous moderate rain.

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

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 9.0°C

Minimum temperature overnight: 4.1°C

24-hour maximum = 9.0°C

24-hour minimum: 4.1°C

Minimum temperature on grass: 3.5°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 29.7 mph NE

Rainfall total: 6.2 mm

Current Conditions:

8 Oktas: Nimbostratus.

Visibility: <1 mile.

Temperature: 4.4°C

Wind chill –1.5°C .

Humidity: 95.0%

Dew point 3.7°C

Wind Direction: Force 7 NE

Barometer 1010 mb falling.

Yesterday:

The rain gradually died out last evening and the rest of the night was overcast and dry. The morning so far has been overcast and dry. Bright spells and watery sunny spells developing now at the observation. thicker cloud quickly returned and the day stayed overcast, dry and rather dull. Feeling cold again, especially in the fresh NE wind.

April 2012 so Far

Mean temperature: 6.9c (-0.8c) of the local average)

Maximum temperature: 14.4 on the 1st

Minimum temperature: -4.0c on the 5th

Grass Minimum: -7.0c on the 5th

Rainfall = 114.6 mm

Wettest 24 hours = 14.3 mm on the 18th

Maximum wind gust: 41.3 mph ESE on the 25th.

2012 so far

Maximum temperature: 21.4c on the 28th March.

Minimum temperature: -8.9c on the 4th Feb

Grass Minimum: -11.2c on the 4^th Feb

Rainfall = 238.3 mm

Wettest 24 hours, 17.2mm on the 4th Jan

Maximum wind gust: 48.6mph, NW 5th Jan

[Methuselah]

Heavy rain and a strong NE wind, sleet & hail earlier, 6Cish...

[SteveB]

What a god awful day, I thought I had woken up on a November moring & missed the whole of Summer.

Wet, windy= horrible

Temp 5.1c

[IanR]

5c at the moment, very gusty winds .driving rain, now the trees have some leaves on they are swaying badly and making loud hissing sounds, everbody is moaning , but being a weather enthusiast I am loving this, going to get wrapped up and have a look at some local flooding

[Summer Sun]

Wet and windy 5.3°C

Max so far 7.9°C

Rainfall 8.1mm and counting

[DiagonalRedLine]

Slightly cooler here with the temperature around 6.3*C and cloudy, too. Very wet on the ground from the recent spell of rain.

[Richard2901]

Some long overdue dry and sunny weather here this weekend, yesterday and today each having over 9 hours of sun.

Temperatures remained well below average though with a max of 8.8C yesterday and 9.0C today, the lowest maxes I can recall for sunny days this late in the season.

It has not reached 10C since the 17th and today was the 18th consecutive day of below average maximum temperatures.

Today would have been the only the 4th dry day of the month but it seems more rain is on the way later tonight. Currently 5.7C and cloudy.

[Stargazer]

Cold, wet and windy this morning, rain finally cleared around 2.30pm. Mainly cloudy and dry this afternoon, but the rain has just returned in the last few minutes. Maximum 12.4, minimum 5.5. Wind fresh E.

[Kent Snow]

11.1C, few cumulus, wind from the S, 1005hPa.

[TonyH]

Very cool, windy and damp here today.

Cloudy, spells of mainly light rain and drizzle 07-1500, even ice pellets/ small hail around 0800. Fresh to strong NE wind, but no gales nor heavy rain in these parts thanks to the Cambrian Mountains sucking the moisture out:

Min: 2.9c @ 0800

Max: 7.7c @ 1900

Rain yesterday: 3.4mm

Rain since 10am: 1mm approx

Currently: Cloudy, light showers in the area.

Temp: 6.8c

RH: 89%

Pressure: 1001mbar, steady.