Saturday 4th March 2006

[tugmistress]

Heap loads of showers and the wind is getting up here though i didn't think it was going to be this windy :unsure: (yup went up and changed my windy thing today :unsure: ) though the wind direction may be slightly off as the compass went nuts on me lol but it is a best guess so direction is just an idea :unsure:

Current Weather Windy Again!

Current Temperature 2.8 °C (37.0°F), Apparent temp -10.8 °C

Maximum Temperature (since midnight) 4.1 °C at: 12:56 PM

Minimum Temperature (since midnight) -0.5 °C at: 0:00 AM

Average windspeed (ten minute) 36.3 mph

Wind Direction (ten minute) NNW (340º)

Windchill Temperature -5.1 °C

Maximum Gust (last hour) 55.1 mph at: 2:52 PM

Maximum Gust (since midnight) 55.1 mph at: 2:52 PM

Maximum 1 minute average (since midnight) 53.4 mph at: 2:52 PM

Rainfall (last hour) 0.0 mm

Rainfall (since midnight) 0.5 mm (0.02 in.) at 10:38:59

Rainfall This month 31.0 mm (1.22 in.)

Rainfall To date this year 54.5 mm (2.14 in.)

Maximum rain per minute (last hour) 0.0 mm/min

Maximum rain per hour (last 6 hours) 0.5 mm/hour

Yesterdays rainfall 1.5 mm

DewPoint -1.8 °C (Wet Bulb :1.2 °C )

Humidity 72 %, Humidex 0.2 °C

Barometer corrected to msl 994.8 mb

Pressure change -0.6 mb (last hour)

Trend STEADY

Pressure change (last 12 hours) -3.4 mb

Pressure change (last 6 hours) -1.4 mb

[Hebridean]

West Coast of Isle of Lewis

A very active trough went through from the North in the early morning with some very heavy snow indeed.

Snow and Hail showers although not as bad (or good!) as yesterdays blizzards

Vis 10 km Pressure 1001 falling Wind 20mph gusts to 32 mph Northerly

15 cm of level snow in the croft.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Not often you get snow on Lewis is it?

2.9º here right now and glorious sunshine after a night time low of -8.2º

[SP1986]

clouds streaming in from the northwest, snow showers not too far away.

2°C

[MP-R]

I haven't actually been at home for most of today. I've only just got back. It was cold and frosty when we left and it is now mild and sunny and clear.

We went walking in the Brecon Beacons up Pen y Fan. It was sunny all the way up there until we arrived when it snowed and snowed and snowed itself silly for twenty minutes then it stopped. It was then dry, cloudy and windy until we reached the top where it was shut in and calm. At the top it was excessively cold with clearing cloud then all the way back it was sunny and quite warm in the sun.

At Storey Arms (the base of Pen y Fan) there was 10cm of snow, half way up there was about 40-50cm and at the very top I measured 125cm! People were skiing and snowboarding for heaven's sake. Winter at its best. Clear and sunny at home and 6.5C.

[Snowdrifts]

Temp 2.7c

Clear

[Thundery wintry showers]

Sunny all day in Leeds, with a maximum of about 3C.

Snow melted in areas exposed to the sun, but there has been no appreciable thaw in the shade.

[Methuselah]

Clear blue skies now, and getting colder fast, NW wind, 1.3C... :unsure:

[Yeti]

temp currently 0.0c.

a very sunny day, with a thaw of most snow in the sun. Max temp 3.1c.

Edited March 4, 2006 by Yeti

[Thundery wintry showers]

Strangely, while about half of the original snow cover is lying in the Montague Burton area, when I went up to Hyde Park (which was fully snow-covered when I left it at 10:30am) I found that almost all of the snow there had gone!

[A Gower Guy]

Clear spells, cold 3.7°c, 66% Rel. Humidity, 1006 hPa

[J10]

I haven't actually been at home for most of today. I've only just got back. It was cold and frosty when we left and it is now mild and sunny and clear.

We went walking in the Brecon Beacons up Pen y Fan. It was sunny all the way up there until we arrived when it snowed and snowed and snowed itself silly for twenty minutes then it stopped. It was then dry, cloudy and windy until we reached the top where it was shut in and calm. At the top it was excessively cold with clearing cloud then all the way back it was sunny and quite warm in the sun.

At Storey Arms (the base of Pen y Fan) there was 10cm of snow, half way up there was about 40-50cm and at the very top I measured 125cm! People were skiing and snowboarding for heaven's sake. Winter at its best. Clear and sunny at home and 6.5C.

Hope you have some pics.

A Sunny Day Here, Cold in the Shade, Very Nice in the Sun :unsure:

[Andy Bown]

A beautiful and mostly sunny day, was cloudier from midday-15.00

Max of 5c with a chilly NNW breeze.

Clear, frost forming, 1c.

[Scarlet_Snow]

Cold clear night here

Temp 0.6c

RH 70%

Pressure 1006.4 mb

Wind NW

[Terminal Moraine]

Sunny all day with no more than 1 okta cumulus humilis at any time.

A little over 1cm of lying snow to start the day which lasted until about 1100 even in full sun but thawed during the afternoon. No thaw at all in even the slightest shade but by the end of the day there was less than 10% snow cover overall.

Temp' at 1800........-0.5c

Max' today..............1.6c

Min' last night.........-5.0c (equalled March record since 1976)

Grass min'............-10.5c

Rainfall from 1800 yesterday........0.5mm (melted snow)

Sunshine today.........9.52 hrs

Mean wind speed at 180.........18 mph W

Highest gust today.................26 mph at 1544

1 okta cumulus and cirrus fibratus

Vis' at 1800...............45 miles

Barometer................1001.2mb, rising slowly

T.M

[snow raven]

Clear, 0c

[Osbourne One-Nil]

NOT below freezing. Amazing. 1.8º and breezy.

[Hairy Celt]

Flippin' frigid.

[Terminal Moraine]

Almost cloudless but temperature falling only very slowly here, currently -0.6c. Wind still 13 mph W.

N.B earlier I mentioned that last night's min of -5.0c was equal to the lowest on record for March here, I should have said it was the coldest since 1987, the record is -6.2c in 1986.

T.M

[Polar Low]

Clear skies here with a temperature of -1.8C and dropping like a stone.. radar shows a shower moving SE is my direction.. and it seems to be intensifying, wierd as I thought they would die of now the sun is down.

[reef]

Report for Saturday 4th March 2006, Readings taken at 23:55.

After a night with occasional snow showers the morning began with a clear sky and 1.5cm of lying snow. Cloud bubbled up giving the occasional snow shower, however by midday the snow had almost entirely melted. The afternoon and evening have since been mostly clear, though high-level cloud in the last hour or so has caused a rise in temperature. Overall it was exceptionally cold for the time of year, with the minima especially some 6°C below average.

Current Temp: 1.2°C

Max Temp: 5.0°C (at 14:22)

Min Temp: -3.2°C (at 07:42)

Humidity: 82%

Min Humidity: 51% (at 16:46)

Pressure: 999.0hPa (Steady)

Dewpoint: -1.6°C

Wind: WNW (9mph)

Rain Today: Trace

My March average currently stands at 1.1°C (-5.2°C Below the 1971-2000 average).