Saturday 4th August 2012 - Weather And General Chat

[Coast]

Morning all! So Super-Saturday at the Olympics and what is the weather like? Here's mine:

17.4°C

1010.3 mb rising 0.1 mb/hr

Wind 10.2 mph gusting 23.7 mph max W/SW

DP 14.3°C

Humidity 82%

10.8 mm rain last 24 hours

Cloud base 1358 ft

Huge downpour of rain around 6.30 this morning but now a little clearer

[Polar Continental]

Saturday 04th August 2012:

Mostly cloudy overnight with the odd spot of rain around dawn. The morning saw further spots of light rain until around 08:00 GMT when broken cloud arrived from the south allowing a few sunny spells up to observation.

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

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 20.5°C

Minimum temperature overnight: 13.3°C

24-hour maximum 20.5°C

24-hour minimum: 13.3°C

Minimum temperature on grass: 11.9°C

Maximum wind gust: MPH (Midnight to Midnight) 14.9 SE.

Rainfall total: 1.1mm

Current Conditions:

4 Oktas: Cumulus mediocris.

Visibility: about 10miles.

Temperature: 16.0°C

Humidity:86.3%

Dew point 13.7°C

Wind Direction: Force 3 S

Barometer 1009mb falling slowly

Yesterday:

Clear spells overnight. The morning to observation has been bright with sunny spells and increasing clouds. There were further hazy sunny spells through the morning, by lunch time cloud had built sufficiently to produce moderate showers, though by the middle of the afternoon there were more sunny spells which continued in to the early evening.

August 2012 so far:

Mean temperature: 16.1 (-0.3c) of the local average)

Maximum temperature: 21.4c on the 1st

Minimum temperature: 10.7c on the 3rd

Grass Minimum: 8.4c on the 3rd

Rainfall 4.8 mm

Wettest 24 hours 3.7 mm on the 2nd

Maximum wind gust: 18.6 mph ESE on the 1st.

2012 so far

Maximum temperature: 29.0c on the 24th July.

Minimum temperature: -8.9c on the 4th Feb

Grass Minimum: -11.2c on the 4th Feb

Rainfall = 560.8 mm

Wettest 24 hours, 20.4mm on the 28th June

Maximum wind gust: 48.6mph, NW 5th Jan

[A Winter's Tale]

Blue skies and sunshine here this morning and temperatures heading towards 16C. I expect to see some showers later on, nonetheless its a good start and see how today goes from here.

[Lake District Blizzard]

Plenty of Thunder here with 3 differents storms at once at the moment

blue sky too with sun keeping it warm at 20.5c

[A Winter's Tale]

It was blue skies and sunshine for much of this morning but now all the blue skies have been pushed further west as quite ominous dark clouds move in from the east. The temperature is currently 21C which is one of the warmest temperatures of the summer so far. This what I would call typical, normal and pretty satisfactory summer weather.

[Jon Somerset]

Relatively cool here. The day started with some showers but these have grouped into parallel lines moving so that some areas miss them altogether. My home is one of these I'm glad to say. Rain now seems to be done. Quite blustery at times and cool when it does this - about 18C max.

[Kent Snow]

20.4C, few cumulus, sunny, wind from the S/SW, 1010hPa.

[Methuselah]

Dry and quite sunny, after a few unimpressive showers, 19C...

[laserguy]

Shocking - been a proper full-on summer's day here,with the radar showing big showers and storms passing within spitting distance - again.

[Terminal Moraine]

Apart from one short moderate shower at 1800 g.m.t it's been dry and warm with sunny intervals; distinctly disappointing.

At 1800 g.m.t;

Temp', 13.5c

Max' today, 20.0c

Min' last night, 10.9c

Grass min', 8.0c

Rainfall from 0800-1800 g.m.t, 0.4 mm

Sunshine today so far, 2.61 hrs

Mean wind speed, 10 mph S

Highest gust today, 23 mph S at 1202 g.m.t

7 oktas Cu, Cb, Ci and Ac

Moderate shower falling

Vis', 30 km.

[Lake District Blizzard]

One of the best days for thunderstorms here in the summer for a long while, about 4 hours of frequent thunder, over 10 different thunder storms/showers throughout the afternoon, eventually merging together to form a storm with frequent lightning, stretching about 10 miles in length

[Thundery wintry showers]

Dry and sunny throughout the morning, a brief downpour with occasional thunder at 2pm, sunny again from 2:30 to 6:30pm, and then some organised thunderstorms during the past hour and a half, mainly to the west of here but with a couple of overhead lightning strikes and bangs. Although the severest weather has passed away, there is still occasional thunder even now. The afternoon max was 23C.

More reminiscent of the sort of daily weather I'd expect from an unsettled summer spell in central/southern France than in north Yorkshire.

[Milhouse]

A mostly dry day here with the exception of a heavy shower around 2pm. A decent amount of sunshine as well with a max of 21.9c

[Stargazer]

A spell of heavy rain early morning, then a few showers getting progressively lighter and dying out by lunchtime. Dry all afternoon with sunny periods. Maximum 20.1, minimum 14.9. Wind moderate S.

[TonyH]

Clear intervals and a few light showers last night.

Sunny intervals and showers today, heavy at times, with a prolonged very heavy one midday. Moderate SE to south breeze.

Min: 12.9c midnight

Max: 19.8c @ 1400

Rain yesterday: 5.0mm

Rain since 10am: 9mm approx

Currently: Clear intervals

Temp: 13.3c

RH: 89%

Pressure: 1007mbar, steady.