Tuesday 19th May General Weather Chat

[The PIT]

A showery start and on the cold side for May

Temp 4.9C

Barometer 993mb rising

Wind F3 WSW

Rainfall 5.8mm

[knocker]

A pretty raw morning with Cbs and heavy showers of rain. Temp 9C and wind WNW 22mph gusting 35.

[johnholmes]

Dry now after showers earlier, 4/8 CuSc with the low currently 5.8C

[SteveB]

Showery start

 

Temp 8.8c

[Summer Sun]

Some rain earlier on thats now cleared with plenty of sunshine to start the day

 

currently 6.0c

[Terminal Moraine]

Clear intervals and showers overnight some of them briefly heavy although the main focus of the showers was a little further north of here, around Bakewell and Buxton.

Cloudy with moderate showers at the moment.

 

At 0800 g.m.t

Temp: 6.6c

24 hr max: 10.4c

24 hr min: 4.1c

Grass min: 2.0c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0800 g.m.t: 10.0 mm

Mean wind speed: 18 mph W

7 oktas Cu and Ns

Vis: 15 km

Moderate rain showers

[Polar Continental]

Tuesday 19th May 2015

 

Further moderate showers last night cleared just after midnight leaving clear spells. Bright and sunny spells this morning and a couple of light showers.

 

Readings at 09:00 GMT:

 

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 13.0°C

Minimum temperature overnight 5.6°C

24-hour maximum 13.0°C

24-hour minimum: 5.6°C

Minimum temperature on grass: 4.0°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 24.6mph W

Rainfall total: 9.0mm

 

Conditions at 09:00 GMT

 

5 Oktas Cumulus congestus, Cirrus Cirrocumulus.

Visibility: good around 10 miles.

Temperature: 10.1°C

Humidity: 74.4%

Dew point 5.8°C

Wind Direction: Force 4 NW

Barometer 1001.6 mb: Trend: steady.

 

Yesterday.

 

Cloudy overnight, moderate rain setting in through the early hours. The day dawned overcast with light to moderate rain. No change so far this morning. Further moderate until early afternoon. Brighter conditions spread in from the west with moderate showers following and sunny spells. Another cool May day.

 

May 2015 so far:

 

Mean temperature: 10.7c (-1.2c) (of local average 1992-2014)

Maximum temperature: 20.3c on the 11th.

Minimum temperature: 0.3c on the 1st

Grass Minimum: -3.5c on the 1st

Rainfall 54.1mm

Wettest 24 hours = 13.8mm on the 2nd.

Maximum wind gust: 36.9 mph WSW on the 5th.

 

2015 so far:

 

Maximum temperature: 20.3c on the 11th May.

Minimum temperature: -3.7c on the 19th January

Grass Minimum: -7.0c on the 19th January.

Rainfall 240.8mm

Wettest 24 hours = 19.9mm on the 12th March.

Maximum wind gust: 43.8 mph W on the 31st March.

[The PIT]

A day of mostly odd light showers although a brief heavy one with hail this afternoon. Cool though.

Max temp 11.8c so far

Barometer 999mb rising

Wind F3 WNW

Rainfall 6.4mm

[Airedalejoe]

Temp just scraped out of single figures this morning but then heavy hail this afternoon and temp 4C at 2pm!!!! Must be some type of cold weather record for time and date.

[SteveB]

Sunshine & showers

 

Temp 12.3c

Max Temp 14.3c

Min Temp 7.6c

[Terminal Moraine]

A breezy day with sunny intervals and short moderate-heavy showers, one with hail this afternoon. The cloud tended to disperse towards late afternoon allowing longer sunny spells.

 

At 1800 g.m.t

Temp: 8.5c

Max today: 9.4c

Min last night: 4.1c

Grass min: 2.0c

Rainfall from 0800-1800 g.m.t: 4.6 mm

Sunshine today: 3.10 hrs

Mean wind speed: 18 mph W

Highest gust today: 35 mph W at 1738 g.m.t

2 oktas Cu and distant Cb

Vis: over 80 km

Showers visible to the east about 20 km distant

[hillbilly]

A day of showers,some very heavy and some hail some sunshine between,max 10 deg,min 5 deg

[Stargazer]

A cool day with sunny intervals and heavy showers including hail. Maximum 14.7, minimum 7.0. Wind moderate W.