Friday 1st January 2016 - General weather discussion

[knocker]

Cloudy quiet morning but rain is imminent. Temp 8C and a breeze from the SSE

[The PIT]

The first air frost of the Winter still Snow free which is likely to continue for a while. Dry high level cloud

Temp -0.4C,  Barometer 1023mb steady Wind F1 Variable,  Rainfall nil

[Andy Bown]

Spot the ?deliberate? error in the thread title.

Friday 1st JANUARY, 3.4c and rising steadily under increasing frontal cloud after a frosty start.

[Summer Sun]

Clear skies overnight have left a hard frost quite possibly the coldest night of winter so far

Current temp -0.6c

[Polar Maritime]

Happy New Year.

A much cooler night with a ground/air frost and clear sky's. An overnight low of -1.1c

Currently; No wind thin cloud with clear patches. Frosty.

Temp -0.9c

Dp -1.5c

Wind West trace

Rain 0.0mm

[SteveB]

Dry cloudy start

Temp 5.6c

[Terminal Moraine]

Early evening showers soon cleared away to leave a dry and chilly night with long clear periods. High cloud increased from the west before dawn and it's currently dry, cloudy quiet and chilly after the first air frost since Nov' 29th.

At 0900

Temp; 0.9c

24 hr max: 6.7c

24 hr min: -0.3c

Grass min: -5.6c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0900; 7.0 mm

Mean wind speed; 6 mph S/SE

8 oktas As

Vis: 55 km.

[Polar Continental]

Friday 01st January 2016

 

Showers cleared away before midnight leaving clear spells. Frost quickly developing. Turning more cloudy towards dawn. At observation, overcast, ground frost melting.

 

Readings at 09:00 GMT:

 

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 9.4°C

Minimum temperature overnight -0.1°C 

24-hour maximum 9.4°C

24-hour minimum: -0.1°C

Minimum temperature on grass: -4.3°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 35.6 mph WSW

Rainfall total: 5.0mm

 

Conditions at 09:00 GMT

 

8 Oktas Stratocumulus.

Visibility, good 10 miles.

Temperature: 1.3°C

Humidity: 96.2%

Dew point 0.8°C

Wind Direction: Force 3 SE

Barometer 1019.9mb: Trend: rising slowly.

 

Yesterday. 

 

A very wet 24 hours with 22.2 mm of rain. Further rain last night, moderate and heavy at times, turning windy again. The early hours saw another spell of heavy rain accompanied by squally winds. Clearance arrived before dawn. Sunny so far this morning. Sunny spells through the morning and in to early afternoon, cloud increased by mid afternoon producing a spell of heavy rain and a strong westerly wind. Further showery rain in to the evening moderate with small hail at times.

 

December 2015:

 

Mean temperature: 9.3c (5.2c) (of local average 1992-2014)

Maximum temperature: 15.0c on the 18th.

Minimum temperature: 0.7c on the 11th

Grass Minimum: -4.4c on the 11th.

Rainfall 95.0mm

Wettest 24 hours = 22.2mm on the 30th.

Maximum wind gust: 38.3 mph SW on the 5th.

 

2015:

 

Maximum temperature: 33.1c on the 01st July.

Minimum temperature: -3.7c on the 19th January

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

Rainfall 693.7mm

Wettest 24 hours = 24.8mm the 13th August.

Maximum wind gust: 50.8 mph W on the 17th November.

[johnholmes]

Happy New Year everyone

A white frost in spite of thickish upper cloud layers and an air frost for the first time since 13 December, a low of -0.7C, no wind

[The PIT]

A dull cold day rather miserable to be honest

Temp 2.6C,  Barometer 1020mb falling,   Wind F1 ESE  Rainfall Nil

[Polar Maritime]

6 minutes ago, The PIT said:

A dull cold day rather miserable to be honest.

Happy New Year Pit! 

[The PIT]

3 hours ago, Polar Maritime said:

Happy New Year Pit! 

It's been so impressive I went back to bed in the afternoon. Dunno where the so called sun was that beeb were caulking on about.

A dull cold miserable day which wouldn't help any hangovers not that I've got one. Bonus first air frost of the winter and it's dry. Downside neighbors in next door and busy destroying the house by the sounds of it.

Max temp so far 3.9C,   Barometer 1016mb falling,  Wind F1 SE,  Rainfall Nil

 

[Mokidugway]

A whole 17 hours in  and it's STILL dry !!!!!!

[The PIT]

1 minute ago, Mokidugway said:

A whole 17 hours in  and it's STILL dry !!!!!!

Won't last much longer it's raining.....

[johnholmes]

This thread would not be the same without the ray of sunshine posts from the lad Pit would they?

 

[SteveB]

Dry start turning showery later.

Temp 10.1c

Max Temp 10.4c

Min Temp 3.7c

[Summer Sun]

Dry and cloudy all day and feeling cold

Current temp 4.2c

[Mokidugway]

1 hour ago, The PIT said:

Won't last much longer it's raining.....

It didn't :(....

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry, chilly (compared to recent weeks) and cloudy morning with high and medium level cloud gradually thickening to bring moderate rain by 1600.

At 1800

Temp; 3.5c

Max today; 3.5c

Min last night; -0.3c

Grass min; -5.6c

Rainfall from 0900-1800; 3.5 mm

Sunshine today; 0.00 hrs

Mean wind speed; 26 mph SE

Highest gust today; 38 mph SE at 1722

8 oktas Ns

 Vis: 12 km

Continuous moderate rain.

 

[hillbilly]

A cold frosty start becoming cloudy with light rain late in the day,max 5 deg,min 0 deg

[Polar Maritime]

A clear start to the morning gave way to thickening cloud and light rain by 4pm, A much cooler day than of late hovering around 3c with temp rising as the front pushed in. Temp currently 5.3c the max of the day.

Rain 5mm

Wind E/S/E Avg 9.7mph

Edit 9.2mm now

 

[Stargazer]

Coldest night since November. Dry and dull in the morning, light rain from mid-afternoon onwards. Maximum 8.1, minimum 0.2. Wind light SE.

[Mark Neal.]

A cold, clear start to the day overnight low of -0.4c. Only the 3rd frost of Autumn/Winter- the other 2 back on 22nd/23rd November. Hazy sunshine to start the day then high level cloud came in and cloudy thereafter. Patchy rain through the afternoon. Heavier by evening. High of 7.3c. Wind 17mph SE. Rainfall- 0.5mm