Author Topic: A random thread for weatherish things that don't warrant a thread of their own. (Read 284523 times)

TimC · « **Reply #2625 on:** 15 May, 2023, 01:32:12 pm »

You had 15.2C at 01:18 this morning? Blimey! I left my shed (the Shed of Rock) at about 00:15 and it was just under 12C at that time. Pleasant for after midnight, but not warm. It's 12.8C now, we just had a fairly pathetic excuse for a shower, and the sun is threatening to break through the overcast. Good day for gardening!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2626 on:** 15 May, 2023, 03:19:08 pm »

Yes, that looks right from the graph. I think the Davis records temperatures very accurately. Not so happy with the rain gauge though. The anemometer is far too low down to record accurate data.

Flite · « **Reply #2627 on:** 15 May, 2023, 04:52:08 pm »

Well, for the last two nights, the minimum temp has been around +2.5C here, as I expected, but the met office had forecast a min of +12C last night. (I have no idea where they got that came from - i supect it was a typo!)

Fleece all over the veg again tonight

T42 · « **Reply #2628 on:** 16 May, 2023, 08:34:41 am »

Hell of a rain squall yesterday, really furious. Didn't last long but it probably dumped a couple of mm in 15 minutes. Can't tell exactly how much 'cos our rain gauge got a neighbourly football through it years ago.

andrewc · « **Reply #2629 on:** 18 May, 2023, 06:41:39 pm »

It's been a warm sunny day. It's 22°C in my flat & 18°C outside. I'm not wearing a shirt....

Is it just me or is this a tad warm for May ?

rafletcher · « **Reply #2630 on:** 18 May, 2023, 08:02:38 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 18 May, 2023, 06:41:39 pm

It's been a warm sunny day. It's 22°C in my flat & 18°C outside. I'm not wearing a shirt....

Is it just me or is this a tad warm for May ?

Long term average would be 15-16. Last year (here) it was 22.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2631 on:** 18 May, 2023, 08:09:32 pm »

Yesterday it had an ice cream. It must have been summer.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2632 on:** 18 May, 2023, 08:11:28 pm »

16.5°C maximum here in sanny Saarfend. I was out in it in my shirtsleeves near Colchester and it was very pleasant. But we've had quite a few warmer days this year.

https://www.tickfield.co.uk/weewx/tabular.html?report=NOAA/NOAA-2023-05.txt refers.

woollypigs · « **Reply #2633 on:** 18 May, 2023, 08:48:22 pm »

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/16/pacific-northwest-heat-canada-wildfires-climate
Even Hudson Bay is finding it a bit hot. Beaten the previous warm record in May by 6c. Oregon and Washington state were on extreme heat warning. Spain and Thailand etc have been cooking. El Nino haven't kicked in yet, the next few month are going to be "fun".

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2634 on:** 18 May, 2023, 10:07:39 pm »

I expect Oregon and Washington will be on fire again this summer, because I'm going there and it always is whenever I do

My pal Jeff, who lives in Vancouver WA, was complaining about the heat a Several of weeks ago.

T42 · « **Reply #2635 on:** 22 May, 2023, 12:59:53 pm »

30°C on the north wall of the house, about 20 minutes past local noon.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2636 on:** 22 May, 2023, 02:45:40 pm »

Just back from weekly trip to Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles so natch the sun comes out.

Bah!

T42 · « **Reply #2637 on:** 22 May, 2023, 04:27:58 pm »

Merrily effing & blinding now. Blizortung puts it mostly up in the hills, though one strike was up behind the village where there's presumably well-earthed phone tower.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2638 on:** 29 May, 2023, 10:06:16 am »

Can’t be long before we have a hosepipe ban here (Thames Water area). No rain for 2 weeks, none forecast for the next 2.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2639 on:** 31 May, 2023, 06:32:42 pm »

My brother recorded 1.2mm rain last night in Ramsden Heath. We recorded none in Southend.

What I am noticing is that when our indoor thermometer tells us the temperature is 19°C, I'm feeling cold. throughout the winter, when the heating was on, I was warm enough when it said 18*C. For the past couple of evenings we've switched on an oil-filled radiator.

JefO · « **Reply #2640 on:** 31 May, 2023, 07:20:43 pm »

For 30 years+ we have had the thermostat set at 70degF.
Because we didn't like the cost of fuel, I reduced the stat to 64degF in the autumn last year.
The radiators usually come on in the morning, for a short time.
This morning they stayed off.
Summer is here! (South Benfleet near "Saarfend")

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #2641 on:** 31 May, 2023, 07:24:19 pm »

Goodness me, I hail from Thundersley…

JefO · « **Reply #2642 on:** 31 May, 2023, 07:28:48 pm »

Quote from: Auntie Helen on 31 May, 2023, 07:24:19 pm

Goodness me, I hail from Thundersley…

I am in Spencer Road (bottom of and between Church Hill and Bread and Cheese Hill) went to Appleton in the 70s

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2643 on:** 31 May, 2023, 07:41:11 pm »

My Mate Jon Fuller was at Appleton School in the 70s. I reckon he probably left in about 1975 to 1977 - I think he's between 3 and 5 years younger than I am.

A former colleague of mine taught there from about 1981 but I don't know how long for.

Oh, and in another "small world" moment, my best pal from primary school, one Billy Fawkes, taught science there, probably in the late 1970s. He met an untimely death as a result of a faulty hang-glider.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2644 on:** 31 May, 2023, 07:54:33 pm »

The wind vector chart for my weather station for May 2023. North is to the right. Almost constant NE winds throughout the month, with the exception of the 6 days 7th-12th, when it rained.

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #2645 on:** 31 May, 2023, 07:56:36 pm »

Quote from: JefO on 31 May, 2023, 07:28:48 pm

Quote from: Auntie Helen on 31 May, 2023, 07:24:19 pm
Goodness me, I hail from Thundersley…

I am in Spencer Road (bottom of and between Church Hill and Bread and Cheese Hill) went to Appleton in the 70s

We were in Konnybrook and The Chase, I went to Southend High School in the 80s and then SEEVIC. My sis still lives in Thundersley near the Common but I have escaped to Germany…

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2646 on:** 31 May, 2023, 08:07:58 pm »

Quote from: Auntie Helen on 31 May, 2023, 07:24:19 pm

Goodness me, I hail from Thundersley…

BOOM! Tish...

Canardly · « **Reply #2647 on:** 31 May, 2023, 10:33:47 pm »

Tad cool today. The CH kicked in at one point.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2648 on:** 02 June, 2023, 10:46:29 am »

MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for Jun 2023 NAME: Prittlewell ELEV: 20 meters LAT: 51-32.95 N LONG: 000-42.52 E TEMPERATURE (C), RAIN (cm), WIND SPEED (km/h) HEAT COOL AVG MEAN DEG DEG WIND DOM DAY TEMP HIGH TIME LOW TIME DAYS DAYS RAIN SPEED HIGH TIME DIR --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 13.0 16.8 15:47 10.4 04:57 5.3 0.0 0.00 8.5 27.4 15:54 47 02 11.3 14.2 10:30 10.3 05:51 7.1 0.0 0.00 8.2 25.7 07:30 40

MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for Jan 2022 NAME: Tickfield House, Southend-on-Sea, UK ELEV: 20 meters LAT: 51-32.94 N LONG: 000-42.51 E TEMPERATURE (C), RAIN (cm), WIND SPEED (km/h) HEAT COOL AVG MEAN DEG DEG WIND DOM DAY TEMP HIGH TIME LOW TIME DAYS DAYS RAIN SPEED HIGH TIME DIR --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 13.1 15.3 13:01 11.8 08:57 5.3 0.0 0.00 5.1 20.9 02:44 217

A little comparison of the weather today compared to New Year's Day last year. Today is colder.

Jurek · « **Reply #2649 on:** 09 June, 2023, 06:09:10 pm »

The Dyson fan has been bought out of hibernation from behind the iMac.
It has not yet been pressed into service.