Friday 19th October 2012 - Weather And General Chat

[The PIT]

A mild cloudy start but dry.

Temp 8.2C

wind f2 SW

Rainfall since midnight nil

[Coast]

12.2°C

1005.8 mb falling 0.9 mb/hr

Wind 1.7 mph gusting 5.0 mph max SE

DP 10.6°C

Humidity 90%

4.0mm rain last 24 hours

Cloud base 656 ft

Light rain still falling

[Snowangel-MK]

Temperature

Temperature 9.3 °C

Windchill 9.3 °C

Dew Point 8.7 °C

Wind

Wind Speed (avg) 0.0 mph

Wind Speed (gust) 0.0 mph

Wind Bearing 0° ---

Conditions

Pressure 1006.88 mb (Steady 0.15 mb/hr)

Clouds Scattered Clouds (Cloudbase 245 ft )

Moisture

Humidity 96%

Rainfall 0 mm

Calm and dry

[Methuselah]

Cloudy with heavy rain, 13C...

[Aaron]

Clearing skies, 5.5c

Met have got the minimums for here well off like they always do.

Edited October 19, 2012 by Aaron

[johnholmes]

a misty mostly cloudy start, some St around although much of the cloud looks like upper cloud; its foggy at the airport with 250m about 3 miles away with extensive St. A low of 7.3C and no wind

[GulberwickWeather]

Bright start to the day with some cloud.

Current obs:

Temp: 6.2C

Dew: 4.7C

Overnight min: 4.6C

Wind: SW @ 2.7kts

Max gust: 9.5kts

Pressure: 1007.4 hPa (rising)

Humidity: 90%

Rainfall: 0.2mm

[Gibby]

A very hazy start to the day with a lot of thin high cloud. Dry though with a light SE flow with 8C the current high.

http://www.norton-radstockweather.co.uk/page8.htm

[Terminal Moraine]

Light showers yesterday evening, clearing by midnight. Fog developed during the early hours but in the last half hour this has cleared above 280m but remains thick below that level.

At 0800 g.m.t;

Temp', 6.9c

24 hr max', 13.4c

24 hr min', 6.1c

Grass min', 4.0c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0800 g.m.t, 1.0 mm

Mean wind speed, 3 mph W

7 oktas Cs and Ac

Vis', 600 mts, although hill tops up to 20 km away can be seen poking through the layer of fog.

Edited October 19, 2012 by Terminal Moraine

[johnholmes]

It became foggy for about half an hour but is clearing again with most of the St also clearing showing upper cloud over the top, looks like AcAs at a quick glance with the sun trying to break through.

[Polar Continental]

Friday 19th October 2012:

Variable cloud overnight with a little light rain. Some weak sunny spells to observation, a good deal of high cloud, misty.

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

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 15.0°C

Minimum temperature overnight: 6.8°C

24-hour maximum 15.0°C

24-hour minimum: 6.8°C

Minimum temperature on grass: 3.5c°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 18.1mph SSE

Rainfall total: 0.5mm.

Current Conditions:

6 Okta: Cirrostratus.

Visibility: poor, about 1 mile.

Temperature: 8.0°C

Humidity: 95.7%

Dew point 7.4°C

Wind Direction: Force 1-2 SE

Barometer 1009.8 mb: Trend: rising slowly.

Yesterday:

Dry for a time overnight before a couple of hours of light to moderate rain spread in from the west after midnight. The day dawned rather cloudy and damp, mild. Turning brighter towards observation, still damp underfoot. Bright spells through the day, though a good deal of cloud also at times.

October 2012 so far:

Mean temperature: 9.5c (-0.7c) of the local average)

Maximum temperature: 15.6c on the 2nd

Minimum temperature: -0.6c on the 14th

Grass Minimum: -3.5c on the 14th

Rainfall 49.0mm

Wettest 24 hours 17.2mm on the 11th

Maximum wind gust: 25.9 mph WSW on the 3rd.

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 = 731.8 mm

Wettest 24 hours, 20.4mm on the 28th June

Maximum wind gust: 48.6mph, NW 5th Jan

Edited October 19, 2012 by Polar Continental

[Andy Bown]

Cloudy, calm and dry in the in between zone with clear sky visible to the W/NW and much thicker, darker cloud to the E/SE!

11.2c after a cool, misty start.

[Methuselah]

Wet and calm, 13C...

[Jack's Dad]

A dull Autumn day with mist and fog this morning which took until just after Noon to clear, but only lifted into cloud. A bit of weak patchy sunshine mid afternoon but now it's relentlessly overcast.

This afternoon saw a high temperature of 11.00c at 4:30pm but it's dropped off a little since then.

Almost no wind - in fact my anemometer stopped rotating at 5am and didn't turn again until 10am.

Current Conditions in North East Staffs:

Temp 10.77c

Humidity 89%

Breeze 1-2mph from anywhere between 0 degrees (N) and 85 degrees (E).

Air Pressure 1004.99 hPa steady-ish

On this day last year, conditions as follows:

A dry but windy day with sunny spells.

Average Air Pressure 1014 hpa but rose from 1008 to 1021 during the day.

Average Temp 6.09c

High Temp 8.09c

Low Temp 2.53c

[Stargazer]

Overcast with rain all day, mostly light. Maximum 13.7, minimum 10.2. Wind light N.

[Terminal Moraine]

A few sunny intervals around mid-morning but generally a cloudy day. The thick fog early this morning became patchy after 0830 g.m.t but persisted until late morning; the sky/cloud was always visible above it though. The afternoon was dry, almost calm, and cloudy with As and Ac slowly thickening.

At 1800 g.m.t;

Temp', 9.3c

Max' today, 11.0c

Min' last night, 6.1c

Grass min', 4.0c

Rainfall from 0800-1800 g.m.t, nil

Sunshine today, 0.51 hrs

Mean wind speed, 2 mph SE

Highest gust today, 12 mph SE at 1559 g.m.t

7 oktas As and Ac

Vis', 9km.

[TonyH]

Clear intervals with a few light showers last night.

Rather cloudy to 1100, then sunny spells to 1530. Rather cloudy since. Quite mild, moderate south breeze.

Min: 7.0c @ 0500

Max: 15.2c @ 1500

Rain yesterday: 6.6mm

Rain since 10am today: Trace

Currently: Clear intervals.

Temp: 7.7c

RH: 93%

Pressure: 1009mbar, rising slowly.