Saturday 2nd April weather observations

[Summer Sun]

Another cold night with variable cloud cover and no breeze

Temp 2.7c

[The PIT]

Cold dry with patchy cloud. Light winds

Temp 0.1C, low -0.9C, Barometer 1019mb steady, Wind F1, Rainfall nil

[johnholmes]

Dry with sunny spells and patchy cloud, white frost on most roofs but temperature now up to 1.1 C from a low of -0.2 C giving an air frost in the early hours

[Terminal Moraine]

A short but quite heavy snow shower yesterday evening at 1900-1915 g.m.t gave a covering of 1cm which lasted for the rest of the night and into this morning. The rest of the night was dry apart from a few flakes of snow during the early hours and since dawn it's been dry with a few sunny intervals.

At 0800 g.m.t

Temp; 1.9c

24 hr max; 7.3c

24 hr min; -0.6c

Grass ( snow ) min; -3.6c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0800 g.m.t; 0.5 mm

 Mean wind speed; 4 mph N

6 oktas Sc and Ac

 Vis' 55 km

Mean depth of lying snow; 1.0cm. 90% cover

[The PIT]

Cold frosty start ratehr cold morning with sunny spells now some light wintry showers. Walk round Longshaw a narrow band of lying snow fromm yesterdays showers melting rapidly but still in the shade when I left.

Max temp so far 7.7C now 6.3C, Barometer 1021mb steady, Wind F1 ENE, Rainfall trace

[Met.]

I was thinking I was going to get this snow shower I observed moving from the north, but it missed my location by perhaps a mile or so to the west. 

[The PIT]

Av dry afternoon with sunny spells rather cold

Max temp 8.7C, now 7.8C, Barometer 1022mb steady, Wind F2 NNE, Rainfall Trace

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry day with sunny intervals. Numerous showers in the local area but all of them missed here, sometimes by less than a mile.

At 1700 g.m.t

Temp; 4.1c

Max today; 8.1c

Min last night; -0.6c

Grass min; -3.6c

Rainfall from 0800-1700; 0.0 mm

 Sunshine today; 5.4 hrs

Mean wind speed; 12 mph NE

Highest gust today; 24 mph NE at 1402 g.m.t

2 oktas Cu congestus and Cb

Vis; 80 km