Friday 11th March 2016 Weather Chat

[The PIT]

A cloudy mild start to the day with light winds

Temp 4.3C,  Barometer 1029mb rising, Wind Calm, Rainfall Nil.

[Summer Sun]

Dry, cloudy and calm

Temp 4.4c

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry and cloudy night with very little wind. The cloud has thinned since 0900 allowing spells of sunshine.

At 0900

Temp; 3.6c

24 hr max: 5.7c

24 hr min: 2.6c

Overnight min; 2.7c

Grass min; 1.6c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0900; Trace

Mean wind speed; 1 mph SE

 7 oktas St and Sc

Vis: 1 km

[Polar Continental]

Friday 11th March 2016

 

A good deal of cloud overnight, breaks appearing towards dawn, fog forming over near by fields, vis <300 yards, ground frost forming. Fog thinning to mist, hazy sunshine so far this morning.

 

Readings at 09:00 GMT:

 

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 7.5°C

Minimum temperature overnight 2.5°C 

24-hour maximum 7.5C

24-hour minimum: 2.5°C

Minimum temperature on grass:  -1.4°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 9.0mph NW

Rainfall total: tr.mm

 

Conditions at 09:00 GMT

 

1 Oktas Cirrocumulus (contrail).

Visibility, poor, < 1 mile.

Temperature: 3.0°C

Humidity: 94.7%

Dew point 2.2°C

Wind Direction: Force 1 S

Barometer 1028.4mb: Trend: rising.

 

Yesterday. 

 

Intermittent light rain stopped last night leaving a cloudy night. Cloudy this morning. Remaining cloudy and dull through the morning and in to early afternoon with a few spots of rain. mid to late afternoon saw a few hazy sunny spells.

 

March  2016 so far:

 

Mean temperature: 3.3c (-3.2c) (of local average 1992-2014)

Maximum temperature: 13.9c on the 1st.

Minimum temperature: -3.6c on the 8th

Grass Minimum: -8.8c on the 8th.

Rainfall 38.1mm

Wettest 24 hours = 19.1mm on the 8th.

Maximum wind gust: 34.2mph NW on the 2nd.

 

2016 so far:

 

Maximum temperature: 14.4c on the 01st February.

Minimum temperature: -4.5c on the 24th February

Grass Minimum: -9.5c on the 24th February.

Rainfall 168.4mm

Wettest 24 hours = 17.6mm the 7th Feb.

Maximum wind gust: 42.2 mph W on the 1st February.

 

 

 

[ColdFront80]

Last night's low temperature was 0.0°C in West Drayton the coldest in 3 days.

 

Interestingly last night was the 11th coldest night of "winter" and 3 of those 11 nights have been in March. Average low temp in March so far just 2.2°C 0.8°C below average overall.

[ColdFront80]

Sun is now out and fog clearing West Drayton. TTFN

[SteveB]

Dry cloudy start

Temp 9.1c

[The PIT]

A mostly cloudy day but not a cold one.

Temp 9C now 8.2C, Barometer 1029mb steady, Wind F1 SSW, Rainfall Nil

[Stargazer]

Dry and sunny all day after a foggy start.  The first day of the season that's really felt springlike here, with very little wind and the daytime temperature finally returning to near average.  Maximum 10.5, minimum 1.0. Wind light SE.

[Rob Heselwood]

A dry start with some sun around mid morning, and part cloudy. It remained dry for the rest of the day but more cloudy.

Max Temp 9.3C

Min Temp 3.6C

Wind Gust 7mph East South Easterly

Wind Average 4.5mph Sou' Westerly

Barometer 1026mb Rising

[SteveB]

Dry with the odd sunny spell.

 

Temp 7.5c

Max Temp 11.1c

Min Temp 5.6c

[Terminal Moraine]

A dry day with sunny periods, most of the sunshine during the morning.

At 1800 temp; 5.4c

Max today; 7.9c

Min last night;2.7c

Grass min; 1.6c

Rainfall from 0900-1800; 0.0 mm

Sunshine today; 5.19 hrs

Mean wind speed; 5 mph S

Highest gust today; 18 mph S at 1111

6 oktas Cs and Ci

Vis: 13 km.

[hillbilly]

Dry,calm after a groundfrost with some hazy sunshine,max 8 deg.min 2 deg