Monday 6th May 2013 - Weather and General Chat

[The PIT]

A pleasant sunny start to day but on the cool side.

Temp 5.9C

Wind Calm

Rainfall NIl

[johnholmes]

a glorious start with little bits of Sc in an otherwsie blue sky, no wind and the temperature is 12.0C from a low of 6.7C

[Methuselah]

Dry with good sunny spells, 15C...

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry and clear night with a slight ground frost. A much more noticeable ground frost lower down, in fact not far off an air frost, as I found out to the cost of my numb hands when I went out for a very early bike ride wearing mitts instead of full gloves!

Currently dry and sunny with the temperature rising quickly.

At 0800 g.m.t;

Temp; 9.4c

24 hr max; 16.5c

24 hr min; 4.4c

Grass min; -0.2c

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

Mean wind speed; 9 mph SW

2 oktas Ci, Cc and Ac

Vis; 50 km.

[Cloudwatcher]

Started cool, currently 9c, bright but with high white cloud giving hazy sunshine. Looks like it will probably burn off once temperatures increase later.

[Polar Maritime]

A dry night with clear sky's, an overnight low of 4.8c.

 

Currently, A lovely sunny morning with wall to wall sunshine, clear blue sky's and light winds.

 

Temp 10.4c

Dp 6.1c

Wind Chill 10.1c, S/S/W 2mph 

[Coast]

13.7°C

1020.5 mb falling 0.1 mb/hr

Wind 4.7 mph gusting 7.7 mph max SE

DP 9.5°C

Humidity 75%

No rain last 24 hours

Cloud base 1793 ft

 

Early fog has cleared and it's now a mainly bright day with sun just being covered by a few clouds

[Cloudwatcher]

 

High level cloud increasing, disappointing start (considering the glut of sunny reports on here!) and hoping for better later! temp still hovering round 10-11c with the sun struggling to get through.

 

Picture taken at 09:52am (as proof) so still plenty of time....hopefully.......

 

Edit: showing some improvement in brightness now. Fingers crossed.

[Scorcher]

Very disappointing here, was expecting clear skies most of the day and have got hazy sun with some thicker cloud looking like it's about the move in from the west- feel robbed haha! Think I may have to move east...

[Cloudwatcher]

Very disappointing here, was expecting clear skies most of the day and have got hazy sun with some thicker cloud looking like it's about the move in from the west- feel robbed haha! Think I may have to move east...

 

Scorcher, welcome to my world! We are west of you and yes, the cloud appears to be thickening up here and heading your way. Very disappointing so far!

[J10]

Mixture of blue skies and high cloud giving hazy sunshine here but brighter than some others. It does look like turning fully sunny later (hopefully) as cloud sheet breaking up to our south/south west.

[CongletonHeat]

Cloudy here too, as it was all day yesterday, no doubt the sun will come out about 7pm as usual.

[Milhouse]

A bit of wispy cirrus but thats about it in an otherwise sparkling blue sky. Warm, 15.3c.

[Scorcher]

The sky is clearing very nicely indeed now here, all clear blue to the west, a lovely afternoon is in store!

[hillbilly]

lovely sunny 18 deg warmest of year so far better than the last 2 cloudy days

[Dusk1983]

Another woeful OVERNIGHT downgrade here in East London, now locked under 90% cloud cover. Forecasting reliability appears to be at rock bottom. Really poor stuff.

[Cloudwatcher]

The sky is clearing very nicely indeed now here, all clear blue to the west, a lovely afternoon is in store!

Same here, was worried with all the morning cloud we had but cleared nicely now :-)

[Evening thunder]

Another woeful OVERNIGHT downgrade here in East London, now locked under 90% cloud cover. Forecasting reliability appears to be at rock bottom. Really poor stuff.

 

 

Very nice here just to the west of the M25, just some scattered cumulus. I remember reading the Met Office forecast for the SE and I thnik it mentioned a build up of cloud particularly around London and some surrounding areas.

 

Heathrow reporting 21C currently, back home it's cooler due to an onshore breeze and some mist around the coasts, but has reached 15.7c, a bit higher than forecast again. Although it appears to have just got a couple degrees cooler there.

[Polar Continental]

Monday 06th May 2013:

 

Clear and turning chill overnight with a touch of ground frost. Low 2.7c with 2.7c on the grass. Sunny and warming rapidly so far.

 

Readings at 09:00 GMT:

 

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 19.7°C

Minimum temperature overnight  2.9°C

24-hour maximum 19.7°C

24-hour minimum: 2.9°C

Minimum temperature on grass: -0.2°C

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

Rainfall total: 3.3mm

 

Current Conditions.

 

3 Oktas: Cirrus, Cirrostratus.

Visibility: good about 10 miles.

Temperature: 14.9°C

Humidity: 69.1%

Dew point  9.3°C 

 

Wind Direction: Force 2 SW

Barometer 1018mb: Trend: steady.

 

Yesterday:

 

Clear overnight, just missing a ground frost, grass low 0.3c. Clouding over soon after dawn. No change to observation, overcast, dry. A mainly cloudy morning followed with just bright spells. The afternoon saw the cloud gradually thin and break up to allow good sunny spells before mid afternoon. Feeling warm.

 

May so far:

 

Mean temperature: 10.1c  (-1.3c) of local average)

Maximum temperature: 19.7 on the 5th

Minimum temperature: -1.2c on the 1st

Grass Minimum:  -4.2c on the 1st

Rainfall 4.2 mm

Wettest 24 hours 3.3mm on the 4th.

Maximum wind gust: 26.0 mph WSW on the 4th.

 

2013 so far:

 

Maximum temperature: 18.7c on the 2nd May.

Minimum temperature: -5.1c on the 14th March.

Grass Minimum:  -9.8c on the 16th Jan

Rainfall 179.8 mm

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

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

[reef]

Very warm here now the sun is out properly with a max temp of 21.6C.

 

Currently 21.4C and 38% humidity.

[Kent Snow]

17.1C, blue sunny skies, wind from the SE, 1018hPa.

[Polar Maritime]

A warm day with only a little patchy high cloud and light winds, but mostly blue sky's and long sunny periods. A max temp 19.2c.

 

Currently, Sunny with clear sky's.

 

Temp 16.8c

Dp 4.7c

Wind Chill 16.6c, S/S/W 5mph

[Terminal Moraine]

The warmest and sunniest day of the year so far despite a good deal of high cloud from mid morning to early afternoon.

At 1800 g.m.t;

Temp; 17.1c

Max' today; 18.4c

Min' last night; 4.4c

Grass min; -0.2c

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

Sunshine today; 12.07 hrs

Mean wind speed; 9 mph S

Highest gust today; 27 mph S at 1324 g.m.t

1 okta Ci and Ac

Vis; over 80 km.

[Stargazer]

Dry and warm with long sunny spells.  The warmest day of the year so far.  Maximum 22.5, minimum 5.6.  Wind light S.

[reef]

Clear and sunny for the majority of the day with just a short spell of high cloud during the afternoon. It was the warmest day of the year so far with a max of 21.7C.

 

Max Temp: 21.7C

Min Temp: 6.7C

Min Humidity: 35%

Mean Wind: 8mph S

Max Gust: 15mph

Sunshine: 14.3hrs

Rainfall: None

 

Currently 12.7C and clear with a light south-easterly wind.