Thursday 29th January General Weather Chat

[The PIT]

A cold start with light snow showers and a slight covering

Temp 0.7C

Barometer 981mb falling

Wind SW F3

Rainfall since midnight 0.4mm as snow

[knocker]

A pretty foul morning with frequent heavy rain showers. Very blustery with WNW wind of 22mph gusting 42. Temp 6.5C.

[lindy2222]

I have 4 inches of snow and its still coming down more for today and next few days......snowed in again........

[SteveB]

Dry windy start

 

Temp 4.8c

[Polar Maritime]

A cold night with snow showers, With an overnight low of 0.2c. Full Snow cover of around 4cm.

 

Currently; Light snow shower & bitter wind. 

Temp 0.3c

Dp -0.2c

Wind Chill -4.2c

Wind N/W 16mph

Snow cover 100%

[Summer Sun]

Light covering of snow, dry now but still cloudy

 

temp 0.9c

[sunny scunny]

 Cloudy with snow showers, but a thaw overnight. Temp is 1c.

[Polar Continental]

Thursday 29th January 2015

 

Variable cloud overnight, westerly wind gusting to around 30mph, showers of wet snow.  Icy underfoot this morning.

 

Readings at 09:00 GMT:

 

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 9.6°C

Minimum temperature overnight 0.9°C

24-hour maximum 9.6°C

24-hour minimum: 0.9°C

Minimum temperature on grass: -0.3°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 36.9 mph W

Rainfall total: 3.3mm

 

Conditions at 09:00 GMT

 

4 Oktas Stratus fractus. Altocumulus.

Visibility: good, around 10 miles.

Temperature: 1.0°C

Humidity: 92.3%

Dew point -0.1°C

Wind Direction: Force 4-5 WSW

Barometer 983.8mb: Trend: falling.

 

Yesterday.

 

Cloudy overnight, dry. Cloudy this morning, a few spots of rain, broken cloud currently moving in from the west at observation, mild. Heavy showers quickly moved in to the area after mid morning, these squally with hail. The afternoon saw sunny spells and light showers. As it turned colder one light shower by mid afternoon produced snow pellets. Very windy with westerly gusts close to gale force. Feeling much colder. The evening saw a light snow shower.

[Terminal Moraine]

A few snow showers overnight and more this morning, most of them quite short.

Currently it's dry and cloudy.

 

At 0900.

Temp; -0.1c

24 hr max; 6.9c

24 hr min; -0.5c

Grass ( snow ) min; -2.2c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0900 ( waiting for snow from gauge to melt )

Mean wind speed; 23 mph W

7 oktas Cu

Vis; 12 km

Mean depth of lying snow; 4.6 cm. 100% cover.

[speyweather]

24 hrs. to 0900:

-3.8c Min.temp.

2.3c Max.temp.

4.6 mm rainfall (as snow)

Currently -1.4c

973 Mb. falling slowly

Wind 5 mph SW

Level snow depth: 6.5 cm

Partly cloudy

[Carl46Wrexham]

Sleet/Rain

Temp: 1.8c

DP +0.7c

Ugh!

[smhouston]

Must have had a good 6 inches last night. Also experienced thunder snow last night and this morning!!

[Terminal Moraine]

Two loud claps of thunder between 1135 and 1140 followed by heavy snow which has added another 3.5cm to the snow cover.

The snow has stopped and the temperature is -0.7c.

24 hr rainfall total ( melted snow ) to 0900 was 8.8 mm

It's the third consecutive January to record thunder, prior to 2013 there had been only one occasion in the preceding 17 years.

[Eye to the sky]

Thunder snow in Derby now!!

[sunny scunny]

Second day in a row that i've got thundersnow!!!!! A nice little covering now.

[Snowyowl9]

Cold start to the day with a covering of snow and then snow showers and drifting,followed by heavy period of snow which has given 3inches max of 2.2c earlier but dropped after followed by more drifting as the temps dropped off,currently 0.7c after today min of 0.4c. 

Snow showers in the vicinity.

Didn`t have the hatrick thunder which I`ve never experienced yet while snow proper overhead.

[TonyH]

Cold and windy today, occasional wintry mix showers, some briefly heavy with hail and snow. A few sunny intervals. Fresh west/ wnw wind gusts to gale force. 

 

Min 2.5c yesterday evening

Max 4.2c @ 1045

Rain yesterday 3.9mm

Rain since 0900 today 2mm approx

Est sun 1 hour

Max gust WNW 39mph @ 1520

 

Currently

Rather cloudy

3c/ 82%/ 982mbar rising steady

[Stargazer]

Cold and clear, with a light rain shower at lunchtime and later a short sharp hail shower with thunder that turned to snow/graupel at the tail end.  First lying snow since 2013, but most of it has gone already.  Maximum 6.6, minimum 1.8.  Wind moderate NW.

[The PIT]

Heavy snow showers faded mostly away during the afternoon although the odd rogue one came through. Snowing lightly now but temps have risen somewhat.

Max temp 1.2C now 1.2C

Barometer 970mb falling

Wind F3 WNW

Rainfall 1.8mm (More than that as it hasn't melted yet. Davis rain guage

[SteveB]

Sunny spells with wintry showers

 

Temp 3.5c

Max Temp 6.0c

Min Temp 2.1c

[Terminal Moraine]

A couple of heavy snow and soft hail showers, one with thunder, and a lot of brief, lighter snow showers apart from the main two.

A few brief sunny intervals early this afternoon. Some drifting of the snow in exposed areas with drifts of around 30cm by early evening.

 

At 1800.

Temp; 0.2c

Max' today; 0.9c

Min' last night; -0.5c

Grass ( snow ) min; -2.2c

Rainfall from 0900-1800 ( waiting for snow from gauge to melt )

Sunshine today; 0.11 hrs

Mean wind speed; 18 mph W

Highest gust today; 37 mph W at 1406

7 oktas Cu and Cb

Vis; 15 km

Distant snow showers

Mean depth of lying snow; 8.6cm. 100% cover.

[hillbilly]

A day littered with squally snow and hail showers,some heavy,brighter at times from midday with a little sunshine.An inch of settled snow here with 3 to 4 on higher ground.Max 2 deg,min 1 deg[last night] currently 0 deg

[snow mad]

We had a good shower today about 4 pm which left a covering. One clap of thunder in their to!

[Zenarcher]

Greenock 29th January Summary

 

Highest Temperature 3c

Lowest Temperature -3c

 

Top Wind Speed 21mph

Average Humidity 85%

Pressure 973mb

Visibilty Mostly good

Weather Conditions Snowfall over night left the ground covered in snow all day. Snow showers continued all day along with sunny spells.

Edited January 29, 2015 by weathermaster

[Mark Neal.]

Well a dry and sunny start to the day, overnight low of -0.8c as skies cleared later in night. Then sunny until late morning,thicker clouds, Sleet/Snow Showers mid afternoon, drier thereafter before a few snow flurries around 8pm. Max around midday of 6.2c, low of 0.3c by late evening. Windy from the W at 18mph generally,gusting 25mph.