The sun is clearly in the wrong hemisphere as it lacks
the strength to budge the fog or raise the temperature.

Fog rolled in across Romsey at 0800Z, thickest at
around 1030Z with 200m visibility but has stuck at
about 300m for the past hour. From time to time,
the sun is just discernible.

The general snow cover is 10%, although the local
overgrazed equine field has kept 70% cover of 1cm.

SYNOP 05/1150Z (current ob)
03/// 31/03 90103 10001 21002 40052 54000 74541
333 41998=

METAR
EG// 051150Z 01003KT 0300 FG VV/// 00/M00
Q//// RED=

Details:
wind... N by E, force 1.
visibility... 300m.
weather... fog.
clouds... sky obscured.
dry bulb... +0.1C.
dewpoint... -0.2C.
RH... 98%.
sea level pressure... 1005.2mb (steady)

beaufort letters (1050-1150Z)... ff.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)
40m amsl

"Nigel Paice" wrote ...
The sun broke through properly and we were out of
fog limits by 1315Z but fog banks were never very
far away, advecting back in at 1520Z at quite a rate
of knots, thicker than before. Best visibility today
was 1500m and we enjoyed bright sunshine for a
couple of hours with an edge of Cirrostratus seen
to the south. Quite a transformation back into the
gloom in a matter of minutes.

The air temperature has fallen sharply from a max
of +2.4C at 1505Z to just +0.5C, 45 minutes later.
Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)
40m amsl
snip


.... yes, we're going the same way: afternoon maximum 3.7°C, and the
bright sunshine was welcome, but now (1800Z), it is -0.8°C, virtually
clear skies, the pavements 'sparkling' in the street lights and the
fog is closing in. A 'chilled to the bone' sort of evening.

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
...
"Nigel Paice" wrote ...
The sun broke through properly and we were out of
fog limits by 1315Z but fog banks were never very
far away, advecting back in at 1520Z at quite a rate
of knots, thicker than before. Best visibility today
was 1500m and we enjoyed bright sunshine for a
couple of hours with an edge of Cirrostratus seen
to the south. Quite a transformation back into the
gloom in a matter of minutes.

The air temperature has fallen sharply from a max
of +2.4C at 1505Z to just +0.5C, 45 minutes later.
Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)
40m amsl
snip


... yes, we're going the same way: afternoon maximum 3.7°C, and the bright
sunshine was welcome, but now (1800Z), it is -0.8°C, virtually clear
skies, the pavements 'sparkling' in the street lights and the fog is
closing in. A 'chilled to the bone' sort of evening.

Martin.


Guess you might get some rime ice though to add a bit of sparkle in the
morning!
It can be so beautiful you know, especially just after the fog has lifted
and the sun shines on it.

Eskimo Will
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On Dec 5, 6:35*pm, "Will Hand" wrote:
"Martin Rowley" wrote in message

...



"Nigel Paice" wrote ...
The sun broke through properly and we were out of
fog limits by 1315Z but fog banks were never very
far away, advecting back in at 1520Z at quite a rate
of knots, thicker than before. *Best visibility today
was 1500m and we enjoyed bright sunshine for a
couple of hours with an edge of Cirrostratus seen
to the south. *Quite a transformation back into the
gloom in a matter of minutes.

The air temperature has fallen sharply from a max
of +2.4C at 1505Z to just +0.5C, 45 minutes later.
Nigel *(Romsey, Hampshire)
40m amsl
snip

... yes, we're going the same way: afternoon maximum 3.7 C, and the bright
sunshine was welcome, but now (1800Z), it is -0.8 C, virtually clear
skies, the pavements 'sparkling' in the street lights and the fog is
closing in. A 'chilled to the bone' sort of evening.

Martin.

Guess you might get some rime ice though to add a bit of sparkle in the
morning!
It can be so beautiful you know, especially just after the fog has lifted
and the sun shines on it.

Eskimo Will
--

Can't work out why my temperature which was +0.7°C @ 17:00 has now
gone up to +1.9°C ?

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

"Keith (Southend)G" schreef

Can't work out why my temperature which was +0.7°C @ 17:00 has now
gone up to +1.9°C ?

____________________

Southend Aiport shows the same trend
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/EGMC.html

Anything to do with the change in wind direction to WSW ?

Colin Youngs
Brussels

"Keith (Southend)G" wrote in message
...
On Dec 5, 6:35 pm, "Will Hand" wrote:
"Martin Rowley" wrote in message

...



"Nigel Paice" wrote ...
The sun broke through properly and we were out of
fog limits by 1315Z but fog banks were never very
far away, advecting back in at 1520Z at quite a rate
of knots, thicker than before. Best visibility today
was 1500m and we enjoyed bright sunshine for a
couple of hours with an edge of Cirrostratus seen
to the south. Quite a transformation back into the
gloom in a matter of minutes.

The air temperature has fallen sharply from a max
of +2.4C at 1505Z to just +0.5C, 45 minutes later.
Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)
40m amsl
snip

... yes, we're going the same way: afternoon maximum 3.7 C, and the
bright
sunshine was welcome, but now (1800Z), it is -0.8 C, virtually clear
skies, the pavements 'sparkling' in the street lights and the fog is
closing in. A 'chilled to the bone' sort of evening.

Martin.

Guess you might get some rime ice though to add a bit of sparkle in the
morning!
It can be so beautiful you know, especially just after the fog has lifted
and the sun shines on it.

Eskimo Will
--

Can't work out why my temperature which was +0.7°C @ 17:00 has now
gone up to +1.9°C ?

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"
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A puff of wind?

Will
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