0850z N F5 5km RA 6St008 8Ns030 04.9/04.3 1004.2

RMK: Sizeable wind-chill this morning ... moderate rain
throughout the night, consistently 2.5 to 3.5mm/h. First
time I've had a rainfall duration of 24.0h in a rainfall day
for a very long time. An additional 28.2mm since 21z,
bringing the event total to 64.8mm and counting.

09-09: Tx 9.5 Tn 4.4 Tg 4.4 RR 59.2 sss 0.0

Philip Eden
Whipsnade 214m

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote :

0850z N F5 5km RA 6St008 8Ns030 04.9/04.3 1004.2
RMK: Sizeable wind-chill this morning ... moderate rain
throughout the night, consistently 2.5 to 3.5mm/h. First
time I've had a rainfall duration of 24.0h in a rainfall day
for a very long time. An additional 28.2mm since 21z,
bringing the event total to 64.8mm and counting.

1150z NNW F5-6 7km -RA 6St008 8As080 04.6/04.4 1006.6
RMK: Bleak. Event total now 66.3mm in 40 hours, continuous
for 30.5h. I doubt that have been many late-May days
with a 12z temperature quite as low as this.

Philip Eden
Whipsnade 214m

On May 28, 1:11 pm, "Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom
wrote:
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote :

0850z N F5 5km RA 6St008 8Ns030 04.9/04.3 1004.2
RMK: Sizeable wind-chill this morning ... moderate rain
throughout the night, consistently 2.5 to 3.5mm/h. First
time I've had a rainfall duration of 24.0h in a rainfall day
for a very long time. An additional 28.2mm since 21z,
bringing the event total to 64.8mm and counting.

1150z NNW F5-6 7km -RA 6St008 8As080 04.6/04.4 1006.6
RMK: Bleak. Event total now 66.3mm in 40 hours, continuous
for 30.5h. I doubt that have been many late-May days
with a 12z temperature quite as low as this.





Philip Eden
Whipsnade 214m- Hide quoted text -

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Philip any reports of sleet given its been so cold ? i hear the Luton
carnival has been postponed
ATB
Vince

On May 28, 1:11 pm, "Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom
wrote:
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote :

0850z N F5 5km RA 6St008 8Ns030 04.9/04.3 1004.2
RMK: Sizeable wind-chill this morning ... moderate rain
throughout the night, consistently 2.5 to 3.5mm/h. First
time I've had a rainfall duration of 24.0h in a rainfall day
for a very long time. An additional 28.2mm since 21z,
bringing the event total to 64.8mm and counting.

1150z NNW F5-6 7km -RA 6St008 8As080 04.6/04.4 1006.6
RMK: Bleak. Event total now 66.3mm in 40 hours, continuous
for 30.5h. I doubt that have been many late-May days
with a 12z temperature quite as low as this.





Philip Eden
Whipsnade 214m- Hide quoted text -

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The temperature here did not fall below 6.0°C but has only
risen to 6.4°C and is now falling. This, if it is maintained, will
make it the lowest May max in my record, starting 1983, and all the
more rmarkable for being so late in the month. Oddly enough, until
1996 my lowest May max of 7.8°C had also been on the 28th, in 1983.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote :

0850z N F5 5km RA 6St008 8Ns030 04.9/04.3 1004.2
RMK: Sizeable wind-chill this morning ... moderate rain
throughout the night, consistently 2.5 to 3.5mm/h. First
time I've had a rainfall duration of 24.0h in a rainfall day
for a very long time. An additional 28.2mm since 21z,
bringing the event total to 64.8mm and counting.

1150z NNW F5-6 7km -RA 6St008 8As080 04.6/04.4 1006.6
RMK: Bleak. Event total now 66.3mm in 40 hours, continuous
for 30.5h. I doubt that have been many late-May days
with a 12z temperature quite as low as this.

1450z NNW F5 10km -RA 4St008 8Ns060 05.2/05.0 1007.9
RMK: Rain very slight for most of time since last ob, but
moderate for a time around 1430z. Event rain now 66.6mm.

Philip Eden
Whipsnade 214m

"vince" wrote in message

Philip any reports of sleet given its been so cold ? i hear the Luton
carnival has been postponed

I was outside doing the midday ob when the temperature was
at its lowest point, 4.6°C, and it was only rain. I guess sleet is
just about possible, but I'm often of the opinion that reports
of sleet in this sort of set-up are more wishful-thinking than
anything else. Assuming a saturated adiabatic lapse rate, the
freezing level is almost 900m above the ground here (is that
right or am I having a cerebral brown-out?) It may be a little
steeper than that, but not much. Whatever, it's still blinking
cold.

Philip

In article . com,
Tudor Hughes writes:
The temperature here did not fall below 6.0°C but has only
risen to 6.4°C and is now falling. This, if it is maintained, will
make it the lowest May max in my record, starting 1983, and all the
more rmarkable for being so late in the month. Oddly enough, until
1996 my lowest May max of 7.8°C had also been on the 28th, in 1983.

Perhaps irrationally, I find it rather reassuring that in spite of
global warming we can still get as cold a late May day as this. I
suppose that the North Sea and the sea to the north of the UK must be
warmer than normal, given the recent warm weather, and I wonder what the
temperature might have been otherwise - maybe a degree or so lower
still?
--
John Hall

"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote :
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote :

0850z N F5 5km RA 6St008 8Ns030 04.9/04.3 1004.2
RMK: Sizeable wind-chill this morning ... moderate rain
throughout the night, consistently 2.5 to 3.5mm/h. First
time I've had a rainfall duration of 24.0h in a rainfall day
for a very long time. An additional 28.2mm since 21z,
bringing the event total to 64.8mm and counting.

1150z NNW F5-6 7km -RA 6St008 8As080 04.6/04.4 1006.6
RMK: Bleak. Event total now 66.3mm in 40 hours, continuous
for 30.5h. I doubt that have been many late-May days
with a 12z temperature quite as low as this.

1450z NNW F5 10km -RA 4St008 8Ns060 05.2/05.0 1007.9
RMK: Rain very slight for most of time since last ob, but
moderate for a time around 1430z. Event rain now 66.6mm

1750z NW F3 7km -RA 1St008 3Sc015 8AcAs070 06.1/05.7 1008.3
RMK: AcAs markedly mammatiform in one area ... rain mostly
slight occ moderate ... event total now 68.6mm. Wind has subsided.
Day max 6.4°C.

Philip Eden
Whipsnade 214m