Tuesday 6th of May General Weather Chat

[The PIT]

Dry after earlier rain with broken cloud and a mild start

Temp 9.7C

Barometer 1001mb rising

Wind F2 SSW

Rainfall 2.6mm

[knocker]

Clear sky

 

Temp 7.8C

 

Wind SW light

 

Pressure 1007mb rising

Edited May 6, 2014 by knocker

[johnholmes]

dry with almost no wind, fairly cloudy with a sheet of Sc but breaking up from the west, rain earlier, a low of 10.7C, so mild, rainfall was 2.4mm

[SteveB]

Dry partly cloudy start

 

Temp 10.7c

[Terminal Moraine]

Rain overnight, some of it heavy during the early hours. The rain cleared by about 0400 g.m.t and the frontal cloud cleared by 0600 g.m.t to allow sunny intervals.

 

At 0800 g.m.t;

Temp; 11.1c

24 hr max; 14.1c

24 hr min; 8.1c

Grass min; 7.0c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0800 g.m.t; 9.3 mm

Mean wind speed; 12 mph W

5 oktas Cu

Vis; 65 km.

[knocker]

Rapid build up of Cu type 2 in the last hour.

[Isolated Frost]

It's warm.

[Mapantz]

I was expecting it to be quite wet last night, just .8mm of drizzle instead!

Currently 14.4℃ with lots of blue sky, some Cu bubbling up though.

[GulberwickWeather]

Foggy for most of the day accompanied by occasional rain.

 

Current obs @ 1445 UTC

 

Temp: 8.4C

Dew: 8.1C

Humidity: 98%

Wind: SSE @ 3 kts

Max gust: ESE @ 20kts @ 0829 UTC

Pressure: 995.6hPa (falling slowly)

Rainfall today: 2.2mm

Last hr: 0.0mm

Cloud: 8 oktas

Vis: Fog

[ARTDEMOLE]

Lots of cloud around today. Some sunny spells to go with it. Light shower at the moment. 14.5c. 

[The PIT]

Dry warm sunny day until I got home of course now the odd spot of rain.

Max temp 17.4C

Barometer 1002mb rising

Wind F3 SSW

Rainfall 2.6mm

[Polar Continental]

Tuesday 06th May 2014:

 

Light rain last evening turned moderate at times continuing through to the early hours, though becoming lighter and intermittent by then, eventually clearing towards dawn.  Sunny spells developing this morning. Sunny spells with varying amounts of cloud, enough to produce the odd shower in the area, this station only caught a short light one around late afternoon.

 

Readings at 09:00 GMT:

 

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 17.5°C

Minimum temperature overnight 9.9°C

24-hour maximum 17.5°C

24-hour minimum: 9.9°C

Minimum temperature on grass: 8.5°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 18.2 mph SE

Rainfall total: 7.7mm

 

Conditions at 09:00 GMT

 

4 Oktas Cumulus mediocris.

Visibility: very good >10 miles

Temperature: 12.5°C

Humidity: 82.3%

Dew point 9.6°C

 

Wind Direction: Force 4 W

Barometer 1005.1mb: Trend: falling slowly.

 

Yesterday:

 

Variable cloud overnight, dry. Hazy sunny spells so far this morning. A good deal of high and medium level cloud persisted, still some hazy sunny spells. Light rain commence by early evening.

 

May 2014 so far:

 

Mean temperature: 10.0c  (-1.4c) of local average)

Maximum temperature: 18.0c on the 4th

Minimum temperature: -0.9c on the 3rd

Grass Minimum: -3.5c on the 03rd

Rainfall 8.4mm

Wettest 24 hours 7.7mm on the 05th.

Maximum wind gust: 13.5 mph SW on the 4th.

 

2014 so far:

 

Maximum temperature: 19.0c on the 30th April.

Minimum temperature: -1.8c on the 20th Jan

Grass Minimum: -7.1c on the 20th Jan

Rainfall 310.3mm

Wettest 24 hours 21.8mm on the 8th. Jan

Maximum wind gust: 46.6 mph SE on the 5th Feb.

[SteveB]

Mostly dry day, giving way to showers this afternoon

 

Temp 13.0c

Max Temp 18.0c

Min Temp 10.7c

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry and quite warm day with sunny intervals. A few showers developed from mid-afternoon but none fell here.

 

At 1800 g.m.t;

Temp; 12.1c

Max' today; 15.4c

Min' last night; 8.1c

Grass min; 7.0c

Rainfall from 0800-1800 g.m.t; 0.0 mm

Sunshine today; 6.75 hrs

Mean wind speed; 9 mph W

5 oktas Cu, Ac and Ci

Vis; over 80 km.

[TonyH]

Rain at times early last night, clear spells later.

Sunny intervals and mainly dry today, cloudier pm. Moderate to fresh SW breeze.

 

Min 5.7c @ 0600

Max 15.0c @ 1716

Rain yesterday 5.3mm

Rain since 10am today Trace

Est sun 3.5 hours

Max gust SSW 27mph @ 1551

 

Currently Cloudy

11.5c/ 80%/ 1004mbar steady

[Stargazer]

Milder start than recently; dry and rather cloudy most of the day with sunny intervals and a single shower in the evening.  Maximum 18.5, minimum 10.6.  Wind light SW.