Saturday 9th March 2013 - Weather and General Chat.

[Polar Maritime]

A cloudy night with showers and fog, a min temp of 1.8c.

Current Conditions.

Temp 2c

Dp 1.6c

Wind Chill 0.8c, E/N/E 3mph

[Guest]

Lovely morning, temp is 0.4ºC, dewpoint is -0.9ºC and all surfaces are white with snow which is falling gently

[Methuselah]

A lovely cloudy, wet 5.3C...

[johnholmes]

overcast with light rain and temperature, lowest as well at the moment, of 4.2C

[Coast]

9.6°C

1000.6 mb rising 0.4 mb/hr

Wind 5.5 mph gusting 5.9 mph max W/NW

DP 8.6°C

Humidity 94%

7.4 mm rain last 24 hours

Cloud base 379 ft

Bright but cloudy, still mild. Waiting patiently now.....

[Polar Continental]

Saturday 09th March 2013:

Cloudy with further light rain and drizzle overnight. Dawning cloudy, damp underfoot. No change at observation.

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

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 5.6°C

Minimum temperature overnight 3.9°C

24-hour maximum 5.6°C

24-hour minimum: 3.9°C

Minimum temperature on grass: 3.5°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 17.8 mph ENE

Rainfall total: 1.1 mm

Current Conditions:

8 Oktas: Stratus.

Visibility: poor, around 2 miles.

Temperature: 4.0°C

Humidity: 96.6%

Dew point 3.5°C

Wind Direction: Force 3 ENE

Barometer 1003.5 mb: Trend: rising.

Yesterday:

Light rain turned intermittent after midnight. Thick fog descended over the area with further light rain during the early hours. Vis <100 yards. At observation, thick fog, light rain. The day stayed fogy though the light rain died away shortly after observation.

March 2013 so far:

Mean temperature: 4.2c (-2.1c) of local average)

Maximum temperature: 9.6c on the 2nd

Minimum temperature: -2.5c on the 3rd

Grass Minimum: -6.7c on the 3rd

Rainfall 12.2 mm

Wettest 24 hours 8.9mm on the 7^th.

Maximum wind gust: 19.8 mph ENE on the 1st.

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 112.2 mm

Wettest 24 hours 14.2.mm on the 10th Feb

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

[Terminal Moraine]

An overcast and mainly foggy night, although the fog thinned to mist for a couple of hours during the early hours, with persistent light drizzle. The fog cleared by 0930 but it remained misty.

Currently cloudy and misty with light rain and a temp' of 1.8c.

At 0900;

Temp; 2.1c

24 hr max; 3.7c

24 hr min; 1.9c

Grass min; 2.1c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0900; 0.5 mm

Mean wind speed; 19 mph NE

Sky obscured by fog

Vis; 100 mts.

[The PIT]

Dull misty drizzle at times with the odd shower of lighter rain

Temp 3.2C no change this morning at all

Wind NNE F3

Rainfall 3.2mm

[reef]

Overcast with light rain which has fallen pretty much all night apart from a heavier spell around 7am. The temperature has been very slowly falling from 4.4C at midnight to 3.9C now.

6.4mm rain so far.

[Polar Maritime]

Light rain, with the odd mix of sleet in the heavy'er burst's, feeling raw.

Temp 2.2c

Dp 0.6c

Wind Chill 0.2 N/E 2mph

[The PIT]

Light Drizzle continuing odd light burst of rain mixed in. Temps falling away now. Can't understand why there's a warning for snow as there isn't any heavy stuff around except more to the south and east of us. Could understand if it was just for ice as that will be a problem tomorrow morning.

Temp 2.7C

Wind F3 NE

Rainfall 3.8mm

[Kent Snow]

5.3C, overcast, grey, wind from the NW, 1002hPa.

[The PIT]

cold light rain or drizzle 1.3C

[Terminal Moraine]

Overcast all day with light rain and drizzle at first this morning turning to sleet by late morning and to light wet snow by about 1600.

Currently; light snow with a temp' of 0.2c.

At 1800;

Temp; 0.8c

Max' today; 2.1c

Min' last night; 1.9c

Grass min; 2.1c

Rainfall from 0900-1800; 1.8 mm

Sunshine today; 0.00 hrs

Mean wind speed' 17 mph NE

Highest gust today; 34 mph NE at 0742

8 oktas Ns and St

Vis; 1 km

Light wet snow falling.

[Methuselah]

Persistent moderate snow, 0.3C...

[Polar Maritime]

Light snow,

Temp 0.2c

Dp -0.2c

Wind Chill -1.1c, N/E 7mph

[TonyH]

Clear intervals last night.

Very mild today, cloud with sunny intervals, decent sunny spells 12 - 1600, light ESE breeze.

Min: 6.1c @ 2300 yesterday evening

Max: 12.6c @ 1300

Rain yesterday: 1.6mm

Trace rain since 0900 today

Currently; Cloudy.

Temp: 5.6c

RH: 91%

Pressure: 1004mbar, rising slowly

[Stargazer]

Dull with drizzle in the morning, cloudy and dry in the afternoon. Maximum 9.4 minimum 5.9. Wind light NE.