Monday 18th February 2013 - Weather and General Chat

[The PIT]

A dull cloudy start but no frost

Wind F2

SSE

Rainfall Nil

[Kent Snow]

-1.1C, freezing fog, grey, wind light, 1020hPa.

[johnholmes]

Cloudy=welcome N Sea low cloud!

Lowest temperature last evening at 3.1C, no wind

[Guest]

Overnight low of -4.3ºC, currently -3.7ºC with clear skies and a cracking sunrise earlier watched from the comfort of bed

[Coast]

5.8°C

1019.5 mb rising 0.5 mb/hr

Wind 12.4 mph gusting 15.8 mph max SE

DP 1.7°C

Humidity 75%

No rain last 24 hours

Cloud base 1686 ft

After a cold and misty start, the sun has come out and is raising temps nicely!

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry night with a brisk SE wind at first, decreasing later. Clear at first but a sheet of St spread in from the North Sea after midnight.

Currently cloudy and dry with the St just showing the first signs of thinning.

At 0900;

Temp; 1.0c

24 hr max; 6.5c

24 hr min; 0.1c

Grass min; -1.5c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0900; Nil

Mean wind speed; 13 mph SE

7 oktas St

Vis; 5 km

The same patchy frozen snow remaining; about 2% of ground covered.

[Methuselah]

Dry, bright and a tad chilly, 4C...

[Polar Continental]

Monday 18th February 2013:

Clear spells for a time last night, turning cloudy by mid evening with a few intermittent clear spells through the early hours. The day began overcast, cloud clearing almost completely around sunrise.

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

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 8.8°C

Minimum temperature overnight 1.3°C

24-hour maximum 8.8°C

24-hour minimum: 1.3°C

Minimum temperature on grass: -2.3°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 19.4 mph SE

Rainfall total: 0.0.mm

Current Conditions:

1 Oktas: Staratus fractus.

Visibility: poor around 2 miles.

Temperature: 2.4°C

Humidity: 87.4%

Dew point 0.5°C

Wind Direction: Force 2 E.

Barometer 1021 mb: Trend: rising slowly.

Yesterday:

Clear spells developing after midnight allowed the temperature to fall close to freezing, though a light ESE breeze prevented the temperature falling any lower than 0.7c in the screen. Grass minimum -3.0c so just a ground frost. At observation, sunny, ground frost. A fine day followed with good sunny spells, feeling pleasant in the sun and out of the keen SE wind.

February 2013 so far:

Mean temperature: 3.1c (-1.1c) of local average)

Maximum temperature: 9.6c on the 14th

Minimum temperature: -3.0c on the 3rd

Grass Minimum: -7.9c on the 3rd

Rainfall 42.9 mm

Wettest 24 hours 14.2mm on the 10th

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 99.4 mm

Wettest 24 hours 14.2.mm on the 10th Feb

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

[Mark Neal.]

Gorgeous afternoon here. 8.3c. long sunny spells and a light SE breeze - 8mph. A frosty start to the day earlier however, temp down to -0.7c.

[ARTDEMOLE]

More of the sunny periods all day....Cool with it though..

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Current data for WH1081

18 February 2013 15:24:23

Temperature (°C):

Current 7.3

Trend (per hour) +1.6

Average today 3.4

Wind chill 7.3

Heat Index 7.3

Dew Point 0.3

Rel Humidity 61%

Wind (km/h):

Current Gust 12.2 N

Average Speed 2.5 NNW

Rainfall (mm):

Current rate 0.0

Last hour 0.0

Total today 0.0

Total yesterday 0.3

Total this month 6.3

Total this year 6.3

Pressure (hPa):

Current 1014.2

Trend (per hour) -0.3

[The PIT]

Sunny from mid morning onwards but cooler than yesterday with temps peaking at 6.5C so a cool day.

Temp now 3.4C

Wind SE F1

Rainfall nil

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry and mainly cloudy morning, the cloud thinning and breaking towards midday and leaving the afternoon mainly sunny with 2 or 3 oktas thin Ci. A slowly diminishing number of snow drifts and snow patches remaining.

At 1800;

Temp; 2.9c

Max' today; 4.4c

Min' last night; 0.1c

Grass min; -1.5c

Rainfall from 0900-1800; Nil

Sunshine today; 3.51 hrs

Mean wind speed; 12 mph SE

Highest gust today; 27 mph SE at 0026

2 oktas Ci and Ac

Vis; 9 km

Ground about 1% covered with drifts and patches of snow.

[TonyH]

Clear with a ground frost last night.

Unbroken sunshine with a moderate SE breeze today. Rather mild, bit of a foehn effect, locally high temperatures and low Dp and RH. Grass frost remnants persisted well into the afternoon, as at 1300 temp 9c, DP 0.5c, RH 54%.

Clear chilly evening.

Mion: +0.1c @ 0730

Max: 9.6c @ 1400

Rain yesterday and today: Nil

Currently: Clear, 3c

RH: 84%

Pressure: 1019mbar, rising slowly.

[Stargazer]

Clear with a ground frost to start, then dry and sunny all day. Maximum 8.7, minimum 1.4. Wind light SE.

Yesterday: thick fog persisted until late morning, then dry for the rest of the day with sunny spells, feeling quite pleasant by mid-afternoon. Maximum 9.4, minimum 1.1. Wind light SE.

[hillbilly]

1.0 @4.0 am ,-4 in jedburgh at 7.30.currently -2 at home