Saturday 8th December 2012 - Weather and General Chat

[The PIT]

A dull cloudy but dry start to the day.

Not cold at 3.5C

Wind NW F2

Rainfall nil

[Aaron]

Clear, 0.5C

[Coast]

3.2°C

1021.4 mb rising 1.4 mb/hr

Wind 1.4 mph gusting 15.7 mph max NW

DP -0.4°C

Humidity 77%

No rain last 24 hours

Cloud base 1503 ft

Cloudy but dry

[Methuselah]

Dry and mostly clear, 0.9C...

[Weather-history]

Frost

-1.0C

[johnholmes]

no frost although possible ground frost soon after 0300 with a low of 1.8C its now 3.4C with half cover CuSc and no wind

[Andy Bown]

2.4c, calm and dry with clear sky and sunshine

[Terminal Moraine]

A mainly cloudy night with light showers yesterday evening. The cloud sheet eventually cleared between 0630 and 0730 allowing a ground frost to develop and turn everywhere into a sheet of ice again.

Currently sunny with a few fog patches in the valley bottoms.

At 0900;

Temp', 0.9c

24 hr max', 3.1c

24 hr min', 0.8c

Grass min', -2.4c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0900, 0.5 mm

Mean wind speed, 5 mph W

1 okta Sc, Ac and Ci

Vis', 12 km.

Ground about 40% covered with ice.

[Polar Continental]

Saturday 08th December 2012:

Mostly cloudy overnight preventing the temperature falling to far, though one are two cloud breaks allowed for a ground frost to form. Low 0.4c with –2.4c on the grass. The morning has to observation has seen the cloud thinning and breaking up allowing sunny spells.

Today's readings for the 24 hrs up to 09:00 GMT:

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 5.9°C

Minimum temperature overnight: 0.4°C

24-hour maximum 5.9°C

24-hour minimum: 0.4°C

Minimum temperature on grass: -2.4°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 33.8mph WSW

Rainfall total: 0.0mm.

Current Conditions:

3 Oktas: Stratocumulus.

Visibility: moderate about 4 miles.

Temperature: 1.7°C

Humidity: 96.3%

Dew point 1.4°C

Wind Direction: Force 2 NW

Barometer 1024.7 mb: Trend: rising.

Yesterday:

Moderate rain cleared around 01:00 GMT. Windy with westerly gusts reaching 34 MPH through the early hours. The morning to observation has seen broken cloudy with bright spells developing, feeling chilly in the wind. Sunny spells throughout the day, clouding over towards dusk.

December 2012 so far:

Mean temperature: 1.1c (-3.2c) of local average)

Maximum temperature: 7.6c on the 3rd

Minimum temperature: -5.0c on the 6th

Grass Minimum: -8.6c on the 6th

Rainfall 22.5 mm

Wettest 24 hours 8.9 mm on the 6th

Maximum wind gust: 22.1 mph WSW on the 3rd.

2012 so far

Maximum temperature: 29.0c on the 24th July.

Minimum temperature: -8.9c on the 4th Feb

Grass Minimum: -11.2c on the 4th Feb

Rainfall = 879.8 mm

Wettest 24 hours, 30.7mm on the 24th November

Maximum wind gust: 48.6mph, NW 5th Jan

[Kent Snow]

6.1C, clear sunny skies, wind from the NW, 1024hPa.

[The PIT]

After I posted skies cleared allowing temps to drop to 2C.

The Journey into the peak district this morning was entertaining. The A621 ungritted leaving several vehicles in the ditches and places like Mony Ash covered in black ice. Snow had melted and then frozen leaving the footpaths with grass showing through sheet ice in places,

Temp now 5.2C

Wind F2 W

Rainfall nil

[Terminal Moraine]

Another dry sunny morning and early afternoon, with cloud increasing by late afternoon to bring intermittent light drizzle by early evening.

At 1800;

Temp', 4.1c

Max' today, 4.1c

Min' last night, 0.8c

Grass min', -2.8c

Rainfall from 0900-1800, trace

Sunshine today, 5.38 hrs

Mean wind speed, 26 mph W

Highest gust today, 38 mph W at 1656

7 oktas St and Ac

Intermittent light drizzle

Vis', 55 km.

Ground 10% covered with ice

[Zenarcher]

Weather: Mostly sunny but became partly cloudy about an hour ago.

Temp: 9c.

Wind: West 25mph Gusts 34mph.

[greybing]

8c .Drizzle.

[TonyH]

Clear periods and frosty last night.

Sunny periods and a little cold today. Some shade frost persisted all day. Light to moderate NW breeze.

Clear and frost at first this evening but clouded over.

Min: -3.5c @ 0830

Max: 6.6c @ 1400

Rain yesterday: 2.0mm

Dry so far today

Currently: Cloudy.

Temp: 3.8c

RH: 98%

Pressure: 1027mbar, steady.