Current Weather Conditions-March 2008

Supercell

Can hear the wind outside above the telly, its really picking up.

squonk

squonk wrote: »

Just had a 0.2mb drop in 1-2 mins!

Thats happening here aswell.
Now 975.1mb

squonk

Seems to be around a 0.1mb drop / minute going on here now. Wind is getting up more and more as the pressure drops!

Paddy.1

nacho libre wrote: »

quite gusty here now. pressure is now down to 967 hpa.

Is it still snowing out your way Nacho? sleet has turned back to torrential rain here now. 964.6 mb. 4.2c.

Supercell

Paddy whats your dew point?

Paddy.1

1.7c. Not overly low.

Snowbie

973.9mb and still dropping like a rock. AWS record will go for lowest pressure for sure tonight.
Rain has arrived.

nacho libre

Paddy.1 wrote: »

Is it still snowing out your way Nacho? sleet has turned back to torrential rain here now. 964.6 mb. 4.2c.

nah. it's turned back to mostly rain now:( just the odd bit of sleet mixed in it.
It's fairly heavy here too.

rc28

Light rain has arrived here, 4.9c
Stronger gusts in last few minutes too.

Weather BOFH

Rain here now too, temp at 4.9C, DP 2.7C. Wind gusting up to 80 km/h here now.

Pressure at 973.5, a drop of 3.8 over the last hour.

Edit: Make that 972.5, 1mb drop in 8 minutes.

Oilrig

Cork Airport just reported 965 hpa to an incoming flight.

squonk

Rain just started here now in the last few minutes too. Light enough so far. Getting very gusty now. 973.6 6.5 dp 3.3

Paddy.1

962.7 mb Rain lighter again. Gusty winds but nothing dramatic.

themadchef

Very stormy here, windows getting pelted by hail stones too.

Sounds like it's getting worse!

Snowbie

972.4mb with drop rate at 4mb p/hr
Gusty winds up to 30mph but no wow factor yet.
Rain lightish 0.5mm
6.1c dp 3.4c

ninebeanrows

themadchef wrote: »

Very stormy here, windows getting pelted by hail stones too.

Sounds like it's getting worse!

Yep something we gotta look out for around the centre of the low is severe single celled storms, which could pack a punch, thunderstorms and funnels are likely with severe squalls.

Gust to 40mph.
Mostly above 30mph now.

The howling is constant.

Paddy.1

Wind is kicking in now, more due to increasingly sustainied gusts rather than strength. 961.9 mb

Temp 4.4c now rising.

I have yet to be impressed so far.

42mph
971.2mb

nacho libre

gust of 50 mph in the last 10 minutes. pressure is down to 965 hpa.

969.6mb
(recod low here is 969.2mb)

Snowbie

39mph gusts
969.6 record about to go. 968.1mb is the target
1mm of rain

Weather BOFH

Pressure now 968.2 which a 5mb drop in the last 60 minutes.

Temp at 4.6C with a top gust of 83 km/h (51 mph).

Trogdor

gust 43mph. Pressure record of 969.2mb just gone. Current pressure 969.1mb and falling at 5mb/hr

969.1mb
New all time low for my aws.
Previous was on dec 2nd 2005 at 969.2mb

Trogdor

Gust 48mph. Pressure 967.3mb, still falling at 5mb/hr.

Snowbie

My record has also gone.
966.7mb and falling still
Gusts to just under 40mph

Mothman

Station record 963.3mb Dec 1999

Currently 968.1, only an hour and a bit to go at current rate of fall.
Lowest since Nov 2002

Quite blustery, 30mph mean gusts 50mph+

Trogdor

965.3mb here wind has abaited slightly.

Snowbie

964.8mb gusting at 40mph