Saturday 19th January 2013 - Weather and General Chat

[sunny scunny]

Light snow at times during the night and a good covering now.Temp 0.5c and a dew point of -1c

[johnholmes]

cloudy with little wind and complete snow cover, estimate 3cm perhaps 4cm (not been out yet!), T=0.4C with low in early hours of -0.6C

[Coast]

0.6°C

995.0 mb rising 1.1 mb/hr

Wind 5.8 mph gusting 20.5 mph max NE

DP -2.1°C

Humidity 83%

2.0 mm precip (about 2 cms snow) last 24 hours

Cloud base 1053 ft

Some lying snow on verges and cars, roads clear

[Terminal Moraine]

Continuous light snow throughout yesterday evening, eventually dying out around 0230.

Currently overcast and misty with snow grains. The temperature rose slowly throughout the night and yesterday's max' was at 0900 this morning.

At 0900;

Temp' ; -2.1c

24 hr max ; -2.1c

24 hr min ; -4.8c

Grass (snow ) min ; -4.0c ( thermometer buried )

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0900; waiting for snow from gauge to melt

Mean wind speed, 10 mph E

8 oktas St

Light snow grains

Mean depth of lying snow; 18.6 cm

[Polar Continental]

Saturday 19th January 2013:

Only the odd flake of snow since last evening. Also the temperature has been slowly rising since 18:00 GMT yesterdayt, so the minimum of –3.0c occurred during daytime, the maximum of –0.9c around dawn. At observation, cloudy, slight snow, ground covered by a mean depth of 10cm of snow 100%.

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

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: -1.0°C

Minimum temperature overnight -2.8°C

24-hour maximum -0.9°C

24-hour minimum: -3.0°C

Minimum temperature on snow / grass: -2.2°C (therm buried in snow)

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 25.0 mph SE

Rainfall total: waiting for snow to thaw in measurer

Current Conditions:

7 Oktas: Stratocumulus.

Visibility: poor, <1 mile.

Temperature: -0.9°C

Humidity: 90.1%

Dew point –2.3°C

Wind Direction: Force 2 NE

Barometer 1000.3 mb: Trend: rising slowly.

Yesterday:

Overcast and breezy overnight with light snow. Moderate snow commenced around 09:00GMt accompanied by a fresh easterly wind, and dropping temperature, currently –1.0c, slight drifting. Mean snow cover 2cm 90%. Moderate snow continued until around dusk with slight drifting at times in the fresh east wind. The temperature fell throughout the day, reaching –2.8c by 16:00 GMT Mean snow depth by the end of the afternoon was 10.0cm. The snow turned very light through the evening with just a few flakes blowing around.

January 2013 so far:

Mean temperature: 3.4c (-0.3c) of local average)

Maximum temperature: 12.5c on the 3rd

Minimum temperature: -4.6c on the 16th

Grass Minimum: -9.8c on the 16th

Rainfall 11.3 mm

Wettest 24 hours 5.0mm on the 14th

Maximum wind gust: 24.2 mph W on the 1st.

2013 so far:

[Methuselah]

Cloudy and breezy with patchy snizzle, 0C...

[Liam J]

Mainly overcast, grey & cold. Temp 0.8c.

[johnholmes]

confirming the snow depth for here at 3+cm and its no longer dry and powdery like it was last evening.

[Summer Sun]

Light snow

Air temp +1.2°C

Dew point -1.9°C

[Terminal Moraine]

Just walked in to work over the moor. Quite a bit of drifting, mainly 30-60 cm deep but some drifts up to 1.1 m.

Continuous light-moderate snow grains still falling. Snow is dry and powdery but the wind is no longer strong enough to drift it.

[Polar Maritime]

Light to moderate snow all night and still snowing now, depth of around 35 cm some drift's in the field's up to 1m + will measure the big ones later.. All local roads and lanes are blocked.

Temp -1.6c

Wind Chill -5.4

Dew Point -2.3c N/E Wind 12mph

[sunsetter]

No more snow here and a slow thaw setting in. overcast with a light breeze.

temp 0.2°C rising

pressure 995.0 mb rising slowly

dewpoint -1.0°C

wind 6.6 mph NE gusting 9.9 mph

rain 0.5 mm

cloudbase 592ft

[The PIT]

A late for me report. Been out on top for a few quick snaps. Light snow easing grains at times

Temp -0.4C

Wind few ENE

Rainfall 3.5mm as snow

Snow depth 7cm

[reef]

Overcast and dry after a few light snow flurries overnight and this morning. The easterly wind has kicked in now, so the min temp last night was 0.8C.

Currently 1.3C with a dewpoint of -0.5C.

Mean level snow depth is 9cm after a slight compaction overnight. As TM above, still have to thaw out the rain gauge, so no idea of precipitation amount!

[Continental Climate]

A lot of regions around the country are reporting rain, sleet, melting and marginality i think this is because there has never really been any sustained heights over iceland/greenland to completely block off the atlantic unlike 09/10 10/11 where we all know there were!! The atlantic is always trying to fight back when it isnt blocked off and it will be all next week as well, im not complaining about this cold spell and this winter is already better than last one because of it but i think through the rest of jan and feb we should be looking north west for our blocking

[marky810]

Another overcast, sub zero day with a 'high' of -1c.

There's approx 3" of lying snow.

[Polar Maritime]

Very light snow grains continuing.

Temp -1.3c

Wind Chill -4.7c

Dew Point -2.7c

N/E Wind 4mph Gusting 10mph

[Zenarcher]

Weather: Sunny spells.

Wind: 22mph.

Temp: 4c.

[hillbilly]

-1 deg cloudy calm drifts over the tops

[Peter H]

Well, despite so much optomism yesterday, the snow has all but melted here. Simply a cloudy, dull, and rather cold day and with a temperature of +4.2, anything that does fall will be rain rather than snow.

With a temperature of only +1.4 and quite heavy snow for much of yesterday, today is a real diappointment.

[Stargazer]

Overcast and remaining very cold, with a couple of light snow showers around lunchtime. There has been a gradual thaw, with about half of yesterday's snow having melted now. Currently overcast with about 5cm of snow remaining on grass, 0.3 deg C, wind moderate NE. Today's maximum 1.2, last night's minimum -1.2.

[johnholmes]

Max here of +0.9C

the last 8 days the mean is +0.1C; the first 8 days it was 8.8C

snow still about 3cm and complete cover

[sunny scunny]

Cloudy all day with occasional light snow and a max temp of 1c. Very little thaw and easily 3 inches of snow still in the fields.

[Terminal Moraine]

A cold, overcast and, at times, misty day with snow grains or freezing drizzle. The bushes and trees are crackling with glaze as the wind stirs them; the snow surface is also glazed.

At 1800;

Temp', -2.2c

Max' today; -1.6c

Min' last night; -4.4c

Grass ( snow ) min' ; -4.0c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0900; 10.0 mm

Rainfall from 0900-1800 ; 1.3 mm

Sunshine today, 0.00 hrs

Mean wind speed, 14 mph NE

Vis', 15 km

Intermittent light snow grains or flakes of snow

Mean level depth of lying snow; 17.6 cm.

[Zenarcher]

Wind has continued to drop still breezy though it's 18mph. Temp around 3c and partly cloudy.