Friday 4th March General Weather Chat

[SteveB]

Morning all,

 

Dry clear start

Temp 2.9c

[The PIT]

Light snow flurries very cold

Temp 0.6C, Barometer 989mb falling, Wind F3 WSW, Rainfall 6mm

[Summer Sun]

Cloudy wet and cold

Temp 3.5c

[Polar Continental]

Friday 04th March 2016

 

Moderate rain before midnight turned to sleet through the early hours fro a time before clearing around 02:00 GMT. Frost and ice forming before dawn. Bright spells this morning, cloud increasing, light snow shower at observation.

 

Readings at 09:00 GMT:

 

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 7.6°C

Minimum temperature overnight -0.3°C 

24-hour maximum 7.6°C

24-hour minimum: -0.3°C

Minimum temperature on grass:  -2.6°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 24.7mph NW

Rainfall total: 8.5mm

 

Conditions at 09:00 GMT

 

4 Oktas  Cumulus congestus, Altocumulus.

Visibility, good, about 10 miles.

Temperature: 0.9°C

Humidity: 90.3%

Dew point -0.5°C

Wind Direction: Force 3 WNW

Barometer 988.6mb: Trend: falling.

 

Yesterday. 

 

Showers clearing last evening. Variable cloud and windy for the first half of the night. Turning clear after midnight, wind dropping and a slight air frost forming. Bright spells for a short time through the morning before turning cloudy with a short spell of light rain before noon. Rather cloudy for the rest of the day, bright spells. Light moderate rain set in during the late evening.

[Terminal Moraine]

Heavy sleet yesterday evening eventually turned to snow after midnight and gave a thin snow cover before clearing. The early morning was dry and cloudy but there's been continuous light-moderate snow since 0930 and it's still snowing now. The current temp' is 0.1c

At 0900

Temp; -0.3c

24 hr max: 5.5c

24 hr min; -0.7c

Grass min; -1.0c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0900; 13.1 mm

Mean wind speed; 29 mph W

7 oktas As, Ac and Cu

Vis: 20 km

Intermittent very light snow

Ground 95% covered with 1cm of frozen snow

[The PIT]

Light snow and flurries to begin gradually got heavier from 10 onwards before dying out around 14:00. A slight covering but nothing much of note.

Max temp 1.2C, Barometer 990mb rising,  Wind F3 SW, Rainfall 9.2mm

[Rob Heselwood]

Rain in theearly hours of the morning, then sleet and or snow, then rain for the rest of the day

Max Temp 3.9C

Wind Chill Temp 2.5C

Min Temp 0.2C

Wind Gust 16.1mph Nor' Easterly

Wnd Average 9.5mph Easterly

Rainfall 30.4mm so far > Still raining

Barometer 990mb Rising

[SteveB]

Dry day with variable cloud

Temp 5.5c

Max Temp 8.9c

Min Temp 2.9c

[Stargazer]

Cold clear start, sunny spells all day and a short light shower around 5pm.  Maximum 8.1, minimum 0.0.  Wind light N.

[Terminal Moraine]

A few brief sunny intervals before 0900 but it soon became overcast with continuous light-moderate rather wet snow from 0930 until 1400. The snow thawed slowly and accumulated equally slowly with a maximum depth of 5cm around midday. The second half of the afternoon was dry and cloudy.

At 1800

Temp; 0.9c

Max today; 0.9c

Min last night; -0.7c

Grass min; -1.0c

Rainfall from 0900-1800; 4.9 mm

Sunshine today; 0.08 hrs

Mean wind speed; 5 mph N/NE

Highest gust today; 43 mph W at 0842

8 oktas Ac and St

Vis: 400m

Mean depth of lying snow 4.7cm. 98% cover

[hillbilly]

Snow overnight giving a couple of inch of wet snow but snowing all morning leaving 2 to 3 inch at low levels as it was also melting but 4 to5 inches higher up .Spells of rain and sleet in the afternoon and evening two inch of wet snow remaining.Max 3 deg,min 1 deg

Edited March 4, 2016 by hillbilly

[J10]

Showery for the morning, with one or two Fully snow showers, which is rare for recent years, no surprise it didn't stick.

As it turned milder later, a drizzly wintry mix followed.