Current Weather Conditions-April 2008

Paddy.1

A hazy, sunny and slightly convective day. Just had a brief shower, but rain drops were huge; the sky above remained blue overhead and the sun remained out!! Ground dry already in the refreshing and stiff wind.

9.2c
61%rh:)
1007.4 mb and falling slowly.

Mobhi1

Beautiful sunny clear blue skies in the city at the moment but wind has made it feel cold all day. Was cloudy this morning with a few spots of rain.

Supercell

Lovely sunny evening here, wind though is pretty strong and very cold, currently 6.5°C

arctictree

6.7c here and feeling very chilly.

I hate easterly winds in April,May,October and November. Outside these months, easterlies bring very interesting weather!

A

Snowbie

Partly cloudy with some cumulus floating in off the sea in a stiff easterly.
6.9c Dp 3c
East @ 15mph gusting 24mph.
1005.8mb

mike65

Started poorly but turned out nice again (if chill wind).

Mike.

Paddy.1

Another fine, cool & breezy night.:)

3.1c
Dp -0.6c
77% rh:)
1006.3 mb and falling slowly.

Mothman

A lot of haze obscuring much of the higher cloud.

6.3C overnight min 5C

Paddy.1

Currently 9.6°C with 64%rh. Hazy with a brisk breeze. The odd sunny spell.

mike65

Ho-hum, lightly overcast with holes. Chill wind.

Mike.

Ruu_Old

We had a small earthquake in the early hours. I didn't feel much but the noise of some unscrewed timber in my attic shaking around, no damage.

An earthquake shook a large area in the Midwest at 4:37 a.m. CT, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Seismologists say the epicenter of this magnitude 5.2 temblor was in southern Illinois, about 66 miles from Evansville, Ind.

As of right now, there are no reports of serious injuries or damage.

"It shook our house where it woke me up," David Behm of Philo, 10 miles south of Champaign, tells the Associated Press. "Windows were rattling, and you could hear it. The house was shaking inches. For people in central Illinois, this is a big deal. It's not like California."

Tremors were felt hundreds of miles away. We found reports from people who felt the quake in Kansas City, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Madison, Wis., Des Moines and near Atlanta.

Rubblefiretruck Gary Patterson, a geologist at the University of Memphis, tells the Evansville Courier-Press that this is the first quake in that area since 1968. He explains why it was felt so far away: "Obviously, it depends on what the soil is where you're at, and what type of building you're in. A person jogging down the street in Kansas City didn't feel this, but a person in a 20-story building there would have felt it."

Today looks okay, currently around 17C with highs of 21C and mostly cloudy.

Mothman

10C max,
Currently cloudy 8.6C.
Snow symbol is on.

Paddy.1

5.1c and cloudy. Showing signs of thinning though.

80%rh
1002.7 mb and rising slowly.

Mothman

Heavily overcast
Min 7C
just above that now.

NE breeze

arctictree

Very cloudy and windy. 5.7c

Mothman

Rain very slow moving, but has now reached here.

7.4C, max above 10C

Snow symbol yet again

mike65

Cold, cloudy. It never shifted - slate grey all day.

Mike.

lucernarian

Poor enough weather here in south Dublin. From what I can tell of the radar, it looks a little bit like a convergence zone in an easterly. If it were 3 months earlier;)

Mothman

Damp overcast, a morning to forget.

7.7C up a little from the constant 7-7.3C overnight.

Ditto here mothman..

Snowbie

7.7c and overcast.
6.9c min

mike65

Same as yesterday.

Mike.

Danno

Cool'n'cloudy here. Apart from a five minute rain shower yesterday evening it has been dry since Thursday's snow showers. This weather reminds me of the impending blizzard from the east in winter months! If only!

Supercell

Drizzly misty stuff.

Paddy.1

Overcast, breezy and hazy. Drying up again though.

9.1c
78% rh
1008.0 mb

Snowbie

8.3c and gloom.

1007.3mb

Mothman

Last 24hrs gloomy.
Max 8.6C, min 7.7C

Not even any rain.

arctictree

Miserable morning here. 6.2c, damp. Bring on the change....

A

mike65

Gloomy

edit sun starting to poke through, temp could leap if it makes it.

edit edit - sun makes it through.

Mike.

Ruu_Old

Had another small earthquake in Central Illinois, I didn't feel this one. Today looks magnificent, currently 18C with high of 23C. Similar for most of the week. Earthquake data below if anyone is interested.

Magnitude 4.0
Date-Time

* Monday, April 21, 2008 at 05:38:29 UTC
* Monday, April 21, 2008 at 12:38:29 AM at epicenter

Location 38.483°N, 87.857°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region ILLINOIS
Distances

* 11 km (7 miles) NW (315°) from Mount Carmel, IL
* 12 km (7 miles) NNE (23°) from Bellmont, IL
* 13 km (8 miles) ENE (72°) from Bone Gap, IL
* 62 km (39 miles) NNW (335°) from Evansville, IN
* 208 km (129 miles) E (94°) from St. Louis, MO

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 4.1 km (2.5 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 95, Nph= 95, Dmin=34.9 km, Rmss=1.36 sec, Gp= 25°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=8
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)