Easter Monday weather reports - 28 March 2016

[johnholmes]

Still raining, 22.2mm so far with T=4.5C at the moment, looks quite breezy outside as well.

[Polar Maritime]

My Davis has clocked up 30.6mm of rain overnight..

Currently 0.7c with moderate sometimes heavy Snow, A few cm's covering so far with blustery winds.

 

[johnholmes]

6 minutes ago, Polar Maritime said:

My Davis has clocked up 30.6mm of rain overnight..

Currently 0.7c with moderate sometimes heavy Snow, A few cm's covering so far with blustery winds.

 

sounds very spring like!

[SteveB]

Dry start after overnight wind and rain.

Temp 6.5c

[The PIT]

Heavy overnight rain turning briefly to sleet then wet snow before returning to rain. Raining lightly now.

Temp 2.6C and overnight low 1.2C, Barometer 974mb rising, Wind F4 NNW, Rainfall 31.5mm measured

[Summer Sun]

A bit of rain from Katie on her northern edge currently cloudy and clam with some drizzle at times

Temp 4.2c

[Polar Continental]

Monday 27th March 2016

 

Cloudy and windy with moderate to heavy rain, especially after midnight and through the early hours. Further moderate rain turning briefly to sleet around 06:00 GMT. Currently cloudy, rain stopped, windy, feeling cold.

 

Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday: 11.1°C

Minimum temperature overnight 2.4°C 

24-hour maximum 11.1C

24-hour minimum: 2.4°C

Minimum temperature on grass:  0.5°C

Maximum wind gust: (Midnight to Midnight) 26.0mph W

Rainfall total: 21.3mm

 

Conditions at 09:00 GMT

 

8 Oktas Altostratus, Stratus fractus.

Visibility, good, around 8-10 miles.

Temperature: 4.0°C

Humidity: 93.3%

Dew point 3.0°C

Wind Direction: Force 5 WNW

Barometer 979.9mb: Trend: rising.

 

Yesterday. 

 

Further blustery moderate showery rain last, night, clearing after midnight. Clear spells through the early hours, breezy. Sunny spells this morning, cloud building. mostly cloudy, blustery showers, feeling cold. A few brighter spells.

 

March  2016 so far:

 

Mean temperature: 4.9c (-1.6c) (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 66.7mm

Wettest 24 hours = 21.3mm on the 27th.

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 197.0mm

Wettest 24 hours = 17.6mm the 7th Feb.

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

[Terminal Moraine]

Heavy rain from about midnight after a dry evening. The rain turned to heavy snow for a time early this morning giving a covering of 2cm by 0700 g.m.t. The snow cover lasted until 0900 g.m.t above 300m but there's only traces of it left now.

Yesterday was the wettest March day on record at this site ( since 1977) and the 12th wettest day in any month.

At 0800 g.m.t

Temp; 1.4c

24 hr max: 8.8c

24 hr min; 0.0c

Grass min; 0.0c

Rainfall in 24 hrs ending 0800 g.m.t; 46.5 mm

Mean wind speed; 40 mph NW

8 oktas Ns

Vis: 15 km

Continuous light sleet

Ground 98% covered with 1.5cm of snow

[Summer Sun]

Some rain for a time this morning which has now cleared away hopefully it will brighten up this afternoon

Temp 7.6c

[The PIT]

A cold day so far. Earlier light rain has changed to light showers with a few sunny spells

Max temp so far 6.2C now 5.7C, Barometer 980mb rising rapidly, Wind F4 W, Rainfall 31.7mm

[SteveB]

Dry day with good sunny spells

Temp 9.5c

Max Temp 11.46

Min Temp 4.4c

[johnholmes]

The rain cleared late am and the sun came out by early afternoon, 25.4mm was my rainfall total from about 0100-1200. A maximum of 10.1C from a low in the rain about 8am of 4.0C

 

[Stargazer]

Stormy in the early hours with heavy rain at times and winds gusting to gale force.  Sunny spells during the day with a couple of heavy showers in the afternoon. Maximum 12.3, minimum 4.1. Wind moderate SW.

[hillbilly]

Heavy overnight rain passed to give a mainly dry day with a few light showers and blustery winds.A white cover of snow around Holme moss can be seen in the distance,max 9 deg,min 4 deg

[Terminal Moraine]

A cloudy morning with light showers. This afternoon saw sunny intervals and quite frequent, mainly light, showers. The showers died out by late afternoon, the wind decreased and most of the cloud cleared.

At 1800 g.m.t

Temp; 5.2c

Max today; 7.1c

Min last night; 0.0c

Grass min; 0.0c

Rainfall from 0800-1800 g.m.t' 1.5 mm

Sunshine today; 1.98 hrs

Mean wind speed; 15 mph W

Highest gust today; 50 mph W/NW at 1239 g.m.t

2 oktas Cu, distant Cb and Ci

Vis: over 80 km.