Tuesday April 9th 2013 - Weather and General Chat

[The PIT]

One of the warmiest starts for sometime at !.8C which shows how cold it has been.

Wind F3 NE

Rainfall nil

[SteveB]

Dry cloudy start with the threat of rain

Temp 3.8c

[Andy Bown]

One of the warmiest starts for sometime at !.8C which shows how cold it has been.

The warmest start here since the last time it rained 17 days ago! Still only 3.6c so I wonder if the current moderate rain is wintry up on Salisbury Plain. A brisk Easterly wind again after 48 hours without it.

[Polar Maritime]

A dry night with fog forming towards dawn, an overnight low of -0.5c.

Currently.

Temp 0.4c

Dp[ -0.8c

Wind Chill 0.3c, N/N/E 6mph

Snow cover 6%

Drift's and snow piles remain.

[johnholmes]

a ground frost earlier before cloud moved in, low of 1.4C now on 3.6C with no wind and 8/8 StSc

[Stargazer]

Moderate rain, 3.7 deg C, the first significant precipitation since 23 March (Reading almost completely missed the snow, the light dusting on 25 March amounting to no more than a trace).

[Coast]

5.8°C

993.9 mb falling 0.1 mb/hr

Wind 9.8 mph gusting 16.1mph max E

DP 4.6°C

Humidity 92%

5.2mm rain last 24 hours

Cloud base 494ft

Dark, gloomy with persistent heavy rain

[Polar Maritime]

JH..

It was interesting both in the drive to the Dolgellau area on Friday and returning today just how much more snow there is on the A494 and the hills around compared to the Peak.

Even this morning there are areas still with 70% snow cover and at a lower altitude than the Peak. Comparing the Woodhead top to some parts around the Bala area almost to the final drop towards Ellesmere and the Welsh area must have had considerably more snow than Derbyshire or so it seemed to me. For sure any though of climbing Cader Idris was a total non starter.

Hi John,

Ive no idea how much snowfall some got in the Welsh area's, but here the heavy disruptive drifting snow was only in very isolated prone areas from above 280m ish. Only 3 miles from here at Froggatt and Curber Edge and around Eyam the wind had more or less completely scoured it away. My location and TM's were in the hot spot's, but what with the severe drifting most of the snow got picked up and dumped into the valleys leaving some vast areas under 2m+ and others scoured down to bare grass. Some of the deep valleys round here still have at least 65% cover.

The wind has picked up a little since early'er, with a chill factor now of -2.9c.

Edited April 9, 2013 by Polar Maritime

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry cloudy and breezy night with a slight air frost; possibly the last in the long run of consecutive frosts?

Currently dry and cloudy with a cold NE wind.

At 0800 g.m.t;

Temp; 1.5c

24 hr max; 5.8c

24 hr min; -0.4c

Grass min; -0.5c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0800 g.m.t; Nil

Mean wind speed; 18 mph NE

8 oktas St

Vis; 5 km

Ground 7% covered with snow patches and drifts.

[Methuselah]

Dry and sunny, 9C...

[hillbilly]

0 deg last night currently 8 deg cold wind

[Kent Snow]

7.2C, broken cumulus, grey, wind from the E, 997hPa.

[Polar Continental]

Tuesday 09th April 2013:

A cold force 4-5 east wind overnight, mostly cloudy apart from a few breaks in the high cloud before midnight. Low 1.6c. Grass low 0.0c so no ground frost. At observation, bright spells, dry and feeling cold in the fresh east wind. Hazy sunny spells developed through the morning as the sheet of Stratus broke up further. Still feeling cold in the brisk east wind. The afternoon saw thicker cloud develop with showers threatening, though none fell in this location.

Readings at 09:00 GMT:

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 8.5°C

Minimum temperature overnight 1.6°C

24-hour maximum 8.5°C

24-hour minimum: 1.6°C

Minimum temperature on grass: 0.0°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 27.6 mph E

Rainfall total: 0.0.mm

Current Conditions.

6 Oktas: Cirrostratus, Stratus.

Visibility: poor < 2 miles, haze

Temperature: 4.4°C

Humidity: 83.6%

Dew point 1.9°C

Wind Direction: Force 4-5 ENE

Barometer 998.3 mb: Trend: steady.

Yesterday:

Dry though a good deal of high cloud overnight, thickening more towards dawn. Wind increasing from the east. The morning to observation has been dry, a good deal of high cloud only allowing the disc of the sun visible. Feeling very cold in the brisk east wind. There were some spells of weak sunshine through the day, mainly dry apart from a short light shower mid afternoon, feeling cold in the fresh easterly wind. The evening saw the high cloud thin a little allowing faint stars to be visible. Breezy.

April 2013 so far:

Mean temperature: 3.0c (-4.7c) of local average)

Maximum temperature: 8.1 on the 5th

Minimum temperature: -4.0c on the 6th

Grass Minimum: -8.7c on the 2nd

Rainfall 0.1 mm

Wettest 24 hours 0.1mm on the 2nd.

Maximum wind gust: 42.1 mph NE on the 3rd.

2013 so far:

Maximum temperature: 13.4c on the 29th January

Minimum temperature: -4.6c on the 16th Jan

Grass Minimum: -9.8c on the 16th Jan

Rainfall 164.1 mm

Wettest 24 hours 14.3.mm on the 15th March.

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

[Stargazer]

Light to moderate rain in the morning, cleared by lunchtime but remained cloudy all day. Still feeling rather cold in the wind. Maximum 9.4, minimum 2.9. Wind moderate E.

[TonyH]

Clear intervals and a ground frost last night.

Cloudy start then periods hazy sunshine 10 -1430 then cloudy again. Became quite mild in the sun in spite of a cool moderate east breeze.

Min: +1.3c @ 0500

Max: 13.4c @ 1400

Dry again yesterday and today

Currently: Cloudy, cooler

Temp: 9c

RH: 60%

Pressure: 999mbar, rising slowly

And Monday:

Edited April 9, 2013 by TonyH

[SteveB]

A bit of light rain this morning & a brief appearance of the sun around lunchtime, otherwise a cloudy dull day.

Max Temp 10.4c

Min Temp 3.2c

Current Temp 10.1c

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry morning with a few sunny intervals. Mainly cloudy this afternoon with a few spots of showery rain at times.

A steady thaw of lying snow.

At 1800 g.m.t;

Temp; 4.7c

Max' today; 8.1c

Min' last night; -0.4c

Grass min; -0.5c

Rainfall from 0800-1800 g.m.t; Trace

Sunshine today; 1.40 hrs

Mean wind speed; 14 mph NE

Highest gust today; 34 mph NE at 1224 g.m.t

7 oktas As, Cu and Sc

Vis; 8 km

Ground 4% covered with snow patches and drifts

Edited April 9, 2013 by Terminal Moraine

[Cloudwatcher]

Another depressingly poor "spring" day here, not climbing above 9c. Gloomy and overcast through the day, and still stuck with a foul Easterly pushing all the chemical pollution right over town. I'd even welcome some rain right now just a break from this monotony!!