The Midlands - Weather Chat

[Will Padz]

Sleety rain here but not heavy..... Heavier bursts more sleety but thats it.... 2c.....

Christmas decs down, lounge hoovered... Off to new house for check to see if its ready for tenents then pub lunch....

Edited January 3, 2015 by Will Padz

[Gord]

One or two icy splats on the car windscreen but that's about as good as it gets. Otherwise it's a horrid day. The worst kind of winter weather. The dog walk this morning was miserable and muddy. The roads are flooding. Mud is being bought in through my living room. Just as it was ALL last winter.

 

I know we have to put up with this as some point every year but I just hope it doesn't go on for weeks on end again.

[Will Padz]

http://www.flashbarstores.co.uk

Snowing at flash and laying....

And cat n fiddle

Edited January 3, 2015 by Will Padz

[Terminal Moraine]

Just enough snow to make it white over above 300m but it's eased off now. Temp' is 0.5c

[The Wolf]

Sick of this rubbish dreary weather.

This winter is going down the pan, just like last years.

[nobble]

In the heavier bursts saw some really cold lookin rain drops lol

[kev f]

gettin some sleety stuff in the heavier bursts here. Still hoping mid month,for the possible pattern change to get some proper cold in.

[Bishop Brennan]

It's finally stopped raining here. No more to come, looking at the radar. 11.00 mm since midnight.

 

With temperatures forecast to drop below freezing tonight, there could be some serious issues with ice.

 

Temp is currently 4.9°C with a Dp of 4.3°C

 

Bish

[Midlands Ice Age]

It's finally stopped raining here. No more to come, looking at the radar. 11.00 mm since midnight.

 

With temperatures forecast to drop below freezing tonight, there could be some serious issues with ice.

 

Temp is currently 4.9°C with a Dp of 4.3°C

 

Bish

 

Bish

 

I agree with the weather,   the wind has now swung round to the NNE, but not the temps....

 

Since my previous posts I have been doing some checking including my old mecury min/max thermometer - temp 3.8 to 4.0C - my old sensor probe - temp 3.6C - and my new one (well one year old )  -  3.6C. The dew point on it is 2.1C which agrees with the theoretical calculation.

 

Also, looking at the East Anglia and South East thread they are were all reporting temps of 3C about midday (chart by Daniel also shows East Mids the same ) so I now find your reading of 4.9C at midday (and also again now now) very strange.

Do you still use Monkspath for your readings or have you your own equipment?

 

Are you on the Wyndley Garden Centre side of Knowle? because I have noticed many times in the past, that it doesn't have laying snow when we do here,  I put it down to the height  effect on the south side of Knowle. If both are correct it seems incredible that we can get a consistent difference of 1.3C at 3 miles apart at virtually the same height. 

 

Just interested as two people DWW and Costa (today) have suggeted my values are wrong and I am trying to resolve.

 

MIA

[picog]

Still firmly in the 'no snow' club here, just a miserable, wet winter's day. Temperature hovering around 2.5-3.5C all day. Lovely clear skies now, and temps starting to drop back. Hoping for a decent frost tonight.

I see no snow at Flash Bar Stores either, so presumably, no-one has lying snow now?

[Midlands Ice Age]

Picog...

 

looks as if we have all missed it.

 

It looks as if the uppers  (what does it mean  - I've seen it on the MOD thread) were too high.

I guess it means that at the rain/snow making level the temps were too high, even though it was cold enough down below for evaporative cooling to take effect..

 

On my other issue of the day. I now think all my values are realistic.

 

My old probe says current temp is 2.6C, my new (current use one) says 2.7C and my old mercury min/max says 2.8 - 3.0C. Dew Point is now 0.5C. So the new one looks good enough to me!!

 

Temp falling rapidly now with clear skies.

 

MIA

Edited January 3, 2015 by Midlands Ice Age

[ditch]

Still overcast here in North Shropshire, hard frost forecast tonight so tomorrow should be a cold and frosty winters day. I've not given up yet on this winter and feel come the weekend of 24/25th January we will have snow on the ground across the midlands....well there's no harm in dreaming

[Bishop Brennan]

Do you still use Monkspath for your readings or have you your own equipment?

 

Are you on the Wyndley Garden Centre side of Knowle? because I have noticed many times in the past, that it doesn't have laying snow when we do here,  I put it down to the height  effect on the south side of Knowle. If both are correct it seems incredible that we can get a consistent difference of 1.3C at 3 miles apart at virtually the same height. 

 

MIA

 

Hi MIA,

 

Yes I still use Monkspath. Not sure what other ones are available locally. It's a good site, but it does tend (in my opinion) to very slightly overcook temps by between 1°C to 2°C or so, compared to what folk are reporting on here. Having said that, it often tallies up with Birmingham Airport.

 

I'm on the opposite side of Knowle, near to Copt Heath Golf Course

 

Bish

[Midlands Ice Age]

Hi MIA,

 

 

I'm on the opposite side of Knowle, near to Copt Heath Golf Course

 

Bish

 

Bish

 

I wont tell anyone then...            

 

 

 

Re the other (main) point I.ll keep a check out with Bham Airport in the future. 

Also on my mobile I can get 2 or three other sites around our area.

 

(off to charge my mobile again now!)

 

MIA

[Polar Maritime]

Very clear with a hard ground ground frost, A low of -3.6c.

 

Current Temp -3.4c

Dp -3.8c

Wind West 2mph.

[Snowyowl9]

Had some graupel and sleet briefly yesterday,otherwise a hard ground frost last night with air temps above at 0.2c 

[Midlands Ice Age]

Morning all

 

Looks like a lovely day ahead. Clear with some wispy cirrus spreading in.

 

Min overnight -3.8C

Current (09:00) at -3.0C with rel humidty of 84% gives me a dewpoint of -5.0C.

 

Just checked B'ham Airport and it has exactly the same, but with rel humidity of 100% and low lying  fog.

Minimum temps overnight around the Midlands were widely between -2C and -5C with several country areas reporting fog.

 

MIA

Edited January 4, 2015 by Midlands Ice Age

[DIS1970]

Went down to -3.2c last night as opposed to the BBC's forecast of 0c, and i don't live in the countryside,currently -2.4c

[nobble]

Still -1 in the shade beautiful day cold crisp clean air , nice 11th day of Christmas

[Midlands Ice Age]

Interesting now,

 

Once again, after a clear morning when the temp got above freezing at 11'oclock(1.0C) . It seems as though the  moisture has resulted in fog formation, sun now dissappearing and the temperature has now (Midday)  dropped to 0.0C again.

 

Its not the first time this has happened here, I mentioned it twice in the Autumn I remember.

 

MIA

[picog]

Good frost last night, with a minimum of -4.1C. Very foggy this morning, so hedges and trees looking extra good in their winter garb. Still foggy and frosty now, temp just hovering around -0.4C.

Great dog walking weather, mud in fields frozen, so neither of us is quite as mucky as usual.

[Dancerwithwings]

Was a bright sunny-ish morning here,  turning misty here now, currently  1.4c from a -3.6c last night..... LIKING IT

[Fozfoster]

still fog here and 0.4c

[Costa Del Fal]

Yeah turning foggy here too.

[Bishop Brennan]

Foggy here since about half past ten.

 

Currently 2.3°C

 

Bish