The Midlands - Weather Chat

[Cactus]

Maximum temperature today was 1.5C temperature now -2.5C and dropping like a stone.

Still plenty of lying snow but ice and fog look like the real problem.

[Polar Maritime]

BBC showed possible -8/-9c in rural areas tonight.

[snefnug]

I really could not say snef, But I'm sure they will have full snow cover at least there. What altitude is it?

About 600 ft, i think. Village in valley. She don't drive now, but bro in Wirksworth does food run.

[Polar Maritime]

Yes there should still be snow cover at that alt from Boxing day.

[snefnug]

Thanks, Polar Maritime.

We have lying snow here. It swears that there is 5 inches, but really only about 1inch remaining..... (gets coat and leaves quickly..)

[Will Padz]

Very cold night tonight.... -8/-9c fire on, indian takeaway ordered, wine open....

[Midlands Ice Age]

Dropping  like the proverbial  stone here now.

 

At 18:00 was -2.8C with a dewpoint of -5.1C.

 

Not the lowest being recorded around with the snow fields further north, but pretty impressive none the less.

 

My recording unit is at 7ft 6inch high so no ground frost type effect. I have deliberately put it higher  to see if I really am in a frost hollow, but I would have tought at that height it would be minimal.

 

MIA

[picog]

BBC showed possible -8/-9c in rural areas tonight.

I can believe that. We are down to -5.1C already!

[Will Padz]

Amazing pics & videos - I really must look into moving to Derbyshire someday! What are the house prices like there?

 

Temp here is -1.3°C with a Dp of -2.7°C

 

Bish

Pretty cheap compared to kent.... Thats one reason i moved up here after i sold....

[Summer of 95]

Good frost forming now, first -5 since March 2013 a definite possibility. How has Stafford managed to keep its snow I wonder, everywhere else outside Derbyshire/Peaks has lost theirs thanks to that horrid damp crud yesterday. (still got a patch at the bottom of the garden, but its tiny).

[Snowyowl9]

Clear at 1.5c.

Outside one reads -2c.. couldn`t read it.

XC shows around -2c

http://www.xcweather.couk/

Edited December 28, 2014 by Snowyowl9

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Good frost forming now, first -5 since March 2013 a definite possibility. How has Stafford managed to keep its snow I wonder, everywhere else outside Derbyshire/Peaks has lost theirs thanks to that horrid damp crud yesterday. (still got a patch at the bottom of the garden, but its tiny).

 

not kept a lot, none in town centre at 81m asl, but some grasses completely white

[The Wolf]

Severe frost outside already! Frost remained all day here.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Severe frost outside already! Frost remained all day here.

 

patchy cloud moving in now we have a slight NW drift, rising slightly -3.4C

[Terminal Moraine]

Polar Maritime,

My mum in Hognaston, I have been using the ELR webcams in Wirksworth to check on weather. You being where you are, do you reckon less snow depth than you'rn at Hoggie?

There's about 12cm of snow at Hognaston and the roads are very tricky in places.

[Midlands Ice Age]

The temperature here remained about -2.8C for 2 hrs but has now continued to drop again. It is now -3.2C.

 

Hope the cloud does not appear here.

 

MIA

[Cactus]

-3.7C here now falling at 0.4C in the last hour.

[TonyH]

-4c just up the road from my parents here just outside Rugby an hour ago according to the car.

[picog]

Down to -6.2C.

There's a real 'edge' to the cold which you don't get when it is 1 or 2 below. Lovely.

Edited December 28, 2014 by picog

[snowangel32]

Very icy out there and a lovely harsh frost best one for a few years, expecting some really low temps to be posted on here tomoz, brrrrr

[Summer of 95]

-4C out there, ground frozen solid first time this year. Car is caked in ice.

Yet Shawbury has been hovering around 0 since midnight, having dipped to -2.6 at 9pm, according to the MO pages???? Certainly colder than that here, it was as cold as now at 1am too.

[Snowyowl9]

Another feeble frost once again temps have risen overnight not gone down as XC shows.

Certain pockets of -5c but 0c or 2c in places and clear.

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

Edited December 29, 2014 by Snowyowl9

[picog]

A beautiful fridgid-looking sky this morning and a very hard frost. Temperature currently -7.6C.

Snowypwl9 don't take the station readings as an accurate reflection of temps everywhere. I am just 8 miles from Shobdon, but temps here on cold nights are a steady 3-4C less.

Edited December 29, 2014 by picog

[Cactus]

Temperature now -5.0C and still falling, still snow on the garden.

[Snowyowl9]

This is so strange temps have dropped to 0.0c when been around 2c most of night.

Edited December 29, 2014 by Snowyowl9