Saturday 9th February 2013 - Weather and General Chat.

[Polar Maritime]

Sleet and wet snow this morning a slight covering..

Over night low of -0.4c

Current Temp 0.3c

Dp -0.2c

Wind Chill 0.2c S/S/W 3mph feeling raw.

Edited February 9, 2013 by Polar Maritime

[Polar Continental]

Saturday 09th February 2013:

Cloudy overnight with light rain commencing around 03:30 GMT, the light rain slowly turned to sleet, and changed to light to moderate snow by around 07:30 GMT. At observation, the snow has turned back to slight sleet. Just a sprinkling of wet snow on lawns.

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

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 6.0°C

Minimum temperature overnight 0.7°C

24-hour maximum 6.0°C

24-hour minimum: 0.7°C

Minimum temperature on grass: -0.3°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 12.9 mph NNW

Rainfall total: 0.5mm

Current Conditions:

8 Oktas: Stratus.

Visibility: poor <1mile.

Temperature: 1.0°C

Humidity: 98.1%

Dew point 0.7°C

Wind Direction: Force 2 SE

Barometer 1020.2 mb: Trend: falling slowly.

Yesterday:

Light rain died away last night, though remaining cloudy. A few clear spells developed through the early hours, with also a few wintry showers locally. Low –1.0c with –2.6c on the grass. The morning to observation has seen a few cloud breaks allowing some brief watery sunshine, now mostly cloudy again, frost thawing. Cloudy for most of the morning with just a few bright spells. The afternoon saw more broken cloud allowing sunny spells. The early evening saw a few clear spells before turning cloudy again.

February 2013 so far:

Mean temperature: 3.3c (-0.9c) of local average)

Maximum temperature: 9.5c on the 3rd

Minimum temperature: -3.0c on the 3rd

Grass Minimum: -7.9c on the 3rd

Rainfall 10.3 mm

Wettest 24 hours 4.1mm on the 5th

Maximum wind gust: 41.7 mph WSW on the 4th.

2013 so far:

Maximum temperature: 13.4c on the 29^th January

Minimum temperature: -4.6c on the 16^th Jan

Grass Minimum: -9.8c on the 16^th Jan

Rainfall 66.8 mm

Wettest 24 hours 13.0.mm on the 25^th Jan

Maximum wind gust: 43.5 mph WSW on the 30^th Jan

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry start to last night but, after midnight, light, occasionally moderate, snow moved in from the west.

The snow died out by 0730 and it's currently cloudy and foggy.

A very marginal situation for lying snow. 2cm here, just over 1cm at 280m and no lying snow at all below 240m.

At 0900;

Temp; 0.4c

24 hr max; 4.0c

24 hr min; 0.0c

Grass min; -1.4c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0900 2.1 mm ( melted snow )

Mean wind speed; 6 mph W/SW

8 oktas As and St

Vis; 400 m

2cm of damp snow lying. 100% cover

[Coast]

2.6°C

1020.2 mb rising 0.1 mb/hr

Wind 2.4 mph gusting 11.2 mph max NW

DP 0.8°C

Humidity 88%

1.6mm rain last 24 hours

Cloud base 736 ft

Cold with some patchy cloud. Overnight rain has frozen on the car making wonderful patterns

[Kent Snow]

2.1C, broken cumulus, bright, wind from the W, 1020hPa.

[johnholmes]

A touch of ground frost last evening then the temperature eased up a bit with skies mostly cloudy until dawn, even with the odd spot of rain, the low was 1.1C just after 2100z, its now on 3.6C with about 6/8 Sc Ac, most of it looks like Ac

A dry start to last night but, after midnight, light, occasionally moderate, snow moved in from the west.

The snow died out by 0730 and it's currently cloudy and foggy.

A very marginal situation for lying snow. 2cm here, just over 1cm at 280m and no lying snow at all below 240m.

At 0900;

Temp; 0.4c

24 hr max; 4.0c

24 hr min; 0.0c

Grass min; -1.4c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0900 2.1 mm ( melted snow )

Mean wind speed; 6 mph W/SW

8 oktas As and St

Vis; 400 m

2cm of damp snow lying. 100% cover

yes although the Cat and Fiddle web is out again the Flash one shows new snow has fallen

[Stargazer]

Light rain with a bit of sleet in the mix, 2.2 deg C.

[reef]

A clear and frosty night with a min temp of -1.7C, the first air frost of the month.

Currently completely clear with unbroken sunshine and a temp of 4.7C.

[Carl46Wrexham]

Temp : 3.9c

Dew Point : 3.6c

Humidity : 98%

Weather : Persistent Light rain/drizzle.

Edited February 9, 2013 by Carl46Wrexham

[Terminal Moraine]

Overcast and chilly with persistent fog above 290m. A few flakes of snow this morning and a few spots of rain or flakes of snow this afternoon. Almost all this morning's lying snow had thawed by mid-afternoon.

At 1800;

Temp; 1.3c

Max' today; 1.6c

Min; last night; 0.2c

Grass min; -1.4c

Rainfall from 0900-1800; 0.1 mm

Sunshine today; 0.00 hrs

Mean wind speed; 7 mph SE

Highest gust today; 15 mph S at 1008

Sky obscured by fog

Vis; 50 mts

A few small snow patches persisting.

[TonyH]

Cloudy and milder today, intermittent light rain and drizzle 0500-1300, thereafter just spitting at times. Light to moderate west/ NW.

Min: 3.6c @ midnight

Max: 7.2c @ 1500

Rain yesterday: 3mm

Rain since 0900 today: 1mm

Currently: Cloudy, spitting

Temp: 5.8c

RH: 95%

Pressure: 1014mbar, falling slowly.

Edited February 9, 2013 by TonyH