Gray, overcast, calm, cold, dry.

Clear, starry skies last night allowed the temperature to fall below
freezing before cloud rolled in at dawn this morning and made for a
sunless day.

With not a breath of wind to break up the inversion boundary, and no
sunshine to warm things up the temperature did not rise above 3.6C here
today. Leaving the Otter Valley behind I saw 7C above the IB; tropical.

Very unusual to have a highest maximum so low, and this was the coldest
since 0.7C on the 18th March (The Beast from the East). A year or two
can go by without the day maximum being so low.

Air pressure reached 1043.2 hPa yesterday, getting near to my record and
the highest since 1043.9 hPa on the 27th December 2016.

Still, the air feels crisp and with low humidity, everything has dried
up nicely after all that December rain and damp.

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalleyweather.me.uk

On Saturday, January 5, 2019 at 7:20:47 PM UTC, Nick Gardner wrote:
Gray, overcast, calm, cold, dry.

Clear, starry skies last night allowed the temperature to fall below
freezing before cloud rolled in at dawn this morning and made for a
sunless day.

With not a breath of wind to break up the inversion boundary, and no
sunshine to warm things up the temperature did not rise above 3.6C here
today. Leaving the Otter Valley behind I saw 7C above the IB; tropical.

Very unusual to have a highest maximum so low, and this was the coldest
since 0.7C on the 18th March (The Beast from the East). A year or two
can go by without the day maximum being so low.

Air pressure reached 1043.2 hPa yesterday, getting near to my record and
the highest since 1043.9 hPa on the 27th December 2016.

Still, the air feels crisp and with low humidity, everything has dried
up nicely after all that December rain and damp.

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalleyweather.me.uk

Yes, the dry, bright, calm & cloudy weather has been going on a bit. Not too cold here, it's been between 7C & 9C for the last 48 hours at least.

At last there's a good swell forecast for tomorrow. Long period (15 sec or so) and clean in light winds, 5 star rating on magicseaweed https://magicseaweed.com/Sennen-Surf-Report/4/

I'm supposed to be taking the female (majority) part of the family to M&S at Hayle tomorrow, but a detour to Porthmeor at St Ives may well be in order.

Just saw a programme on 2018's wild weather, including a clip of waves battering Porthleven during a piece on storms destroying beach chalets in Norfolk (well might have been Suffolk). You'd think they'd find an archive clip from vaguely the right area.
Graham
Penzance

Graham Easterling wrote:

On Saturday, January 5, 2019 at 7:20:47 PM UTC, Nick Gardner wrote:
Gray, overcast, calm, cold, dry.

Clear, starry skies last night allowed the temperature to fall
below freezing before cloud rolled in at dawn this morning and made
for a sunless day.

With not a breath of wind to break up the inversion boundary, and
no sunshine to warm things up the temperature did not rise above
3.6C here today. Leaving the Otter Valley behind I saw 7C above the
IB; tropical.

Very unusual to have a highest maximum so low, and this was the
coldest since 0.7C on the 18th March (The Beast from the East). A
year or two can go by without the day maximum being so low.

Air pressure reached 1043.2 hPa yesterday, getting near to my
record and the highest since 1043.9 hPa on the 27th December 2016.

Still, the air feels crisp and with low humidity, everything has
dried up nicely after all that December rain and damp.

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalleyweather.me.uk

Yes, the dry, bright, calm & cloudy weather has been going on a bit.
Not too cold here, it's been between 7C & 9C for the last 48 hours at
least.

At last there's a good swell forecast for tomorrow. Long period (15
sec or so) and clean in light winds, 5 star rating on magicseaweed
https://magicseaweed.com/Sennen-Surf-Report/4/

I'm supposed to be taking the female (majority) part of the family to
M&S at Hayle tomorrow, but a detour to Porthmeor at St Ives may well
be in order.

Just saw a programme on 2018's wild weather, including a clip of
waves battering Porthleven during a piece on storms destroying beach
chalets in Norfolk (well might have been Suffolk). You'd think they'd
find an archive clip from vaguely the right area. Graham Penzance


Why let facts get in the way of a good story! It is a bit pathetic,
though. It's not difficult to get these things right

Our dull and gloomy weather goes on. The 1.7 hours of sun that we had
on New Year's Day is the only sun since Christmas Eve. That makes it 11
sunless days out of the last 12 days. Only 25.5 hours in the past 30
days.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
twitter: @TideswellWeathr