South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 01/01/2020 Onward

[Mapantz]

Started off with blue skies and then clouded over. Temp only 15.2°C

[Andy Bown]

18.1c and hazy sun/gusty Southerly wind ahead of the cold front. Almost an identical set up to those heat bursts last summer.

I’ve heard of mares tails (Cirrus) but here are some whales tails!

[Dorsetbred]

Lovely morning until the band of cloud ahead of the front perched right over us killing the temperature rise..still only 13.8°C

Edited April 5, 2020 by Dorsetbred

[matt111]

Sunny with blue skies until not long ago when it turned hazy. It’s been quite warm but the breeze is taking the edge off the temperature a bit, especially since the cloud arrived. 13.8°C

[CheesepuffScott]

 

[Dreckly]

Sunny, blue skies and 16 deg, quite windy today! 

[Mapantz]

Finally got all of my new electrics done and added my new pond pump which runs alongside a new filter to add to the other two. The new pump has a waterproof controller which screws to the wall and shows the wattage of the pump. You can adjust the wattage up or down to set your flow around the filters. I have it set at  60 watts and it's feeding 3 filters and a waterfall with loads of flow. It's shifting more water than my old pump did at 150 watts. I can up the power to 180 watts which pushes out 20,000 litres an hour, but I think that'll be a bit much?! Very happy to be getting great flow by using less power - my bit for the environment.

Temp is at 16.9°C here under milky skies.

[MP-R]

Brushed 20C here just before cloud blocked the sun and it fell back to 18C.

[Dorsetbred]

48 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Finally got all of my new electrics done and added my new pond pump which runs alongside a new filter to add to the other two. The new pump has a waterproof controller which screws to the wall and shows the wattage of the pump. You can adjust the wattage up or down to set your flow around the filters. I have it set at  60 watts and it's feeding 3 filters and a waterfall with loads of flow. It's shifting more water than my old pump did at 150 watts. I can up the power to 180 watts which pushes out 20,000 litres an hour, but I think that'll be a bit much?! Very happy to be getting great flow by using less power - my bit for the environment.

Temp is at 16.9°C here under milky skies.

Wow, 20000ltrs/hr that's one heck of a flow, even for a garden pond, I know when I had mine, you have to take in to account the height of water, as the pump flow diminishes rapidly, if you have a high waterfall. I notice the microclimate is doing well today sheltered from the onshore breeze..

[CheesepuffScott]

Got to 20.6°C very briefly at: 15:09..

Currently 18.7°C

[Dorsetbred]

Bestr we could do here was 16.6°C at: 16:47

Now the question is, do I hose my back yard down tonight or do I rely upon the rainb tonorrow to clean it for me..?

 

Edited April 5, 2020 by Dorsetbred

[CheesepuffScott]

MO gives me 4 hours 'heavy rain' early AM... and heavy rain usually means a mere drizzle. We shall see. 

Anyways, looking at the latest model runs, it's not good for garden prospects. A little bit of a blip next weekend and then high pressure returns. 

I will not complain after the dire autumn/winter, but I feel for the plants

Edited April 5, 2020 by CheesepuffScott

[Mapantz]

3 hours ago, Dorsetbred said:

Wow, 20000ltrs/hr that's one heck of a flow, even for a garden pond, I know when I had mine, you have to take in to account the height of water, as the pump flow diminishes rapidly, if you have a high waterfall. I notice the microclimate is doing well today sheltered from the onshore breeze..

A slow burner for temps today 18.1°C at 4:48pm. When the wind increased around 7pm, there was a small surge in temps again, going from 15.5°C to 17.1°C.

Here's the totals for overnight's deluge:

Edited April 5, 2020 by Mapantz

[Lyn-M]

Took my one period of exercise to coincide with the sunset this evening.  Cloud on the front spoiled it somewhat, but better than nothing.

[matt111]

Stayed hazy for the rest of the day, interestingly the high here wasn't until 6pm after the breeze finally dropped. Reached 16.4°C, currently 13.3°C

[Frosty hollows]

Got up to 22c here

[CheesepuffScott]

3mm woo, exciting..

Anywho, just been to take the washing in before heading to bed and despite the gusty wind, it feels rather mild out there.. the temperature has levelled out at 13.5°C

[MP-R]

Temperature been holding up well. Was still 15.5C until half an hour ago but rain has arrived since with a subsequent cooling.

[CheesepuffScott]

Good morning, it’s an overcast, damp and mild start after rain overnight.. currently 9.8°C which is the low

[lettice]

What a lovely weekend of sunshine.
Got to 14.7°C and 15.5°C Sat and Sun and was still 15.2°C at midnight.
A low of 11.4°C at 7am, now 12.4°C
WSW 10-12mph winds.
We had our first rain that registered in the rain meter since March 14th between 4am and 5am, 0.4mm.

[CheesepuffScott]

Sunny spells now with a breeze from the west. 14.7°C

[Lyn-M]

Low of 10.4°C here, 2.9mm rain and a sunny day with some fair weather cumulus bubbling up in the last hour.  Currently 16.3°C.

[Mapantz]

2mm of rain overnight. Mostly sunny today with a high of 16.3°C.

I don't like the look of this!?

Similar story for Thursday:

[Dorsetbred]

Much warmer today than yesterdays cloud covered event, reaching a pleasant 18.5°C at: 12:15, early shouts, but the weekend isn't looking much to write home about at the moment, but still some way to go yet..

[matt111]

Sunny all day with blue skies and a light breeze. The temperature was slightly lower than yesterday but the change in wind direction actually made it feel slightly warmer. Reached 14.0°C, currently 10.8°C