Current Weather Conditions-May 2008

Deep Easterly

8.7c now after a low of 5.4c. Bright with some dappled altros hanging about. Light but noticable breeze.

72% rh
1016.3 mb steady.

Danno

Low of 3.7c last night at 1.45am, then the cloud rolled in from the SW. Currently at 9.2c. Overcast in a light ESE breeze.

mike65

Bright, gusty, mild.

Mike.

Supercell

Cold night in store here, clearing skies and falling winds.

Currently 8.9°C, may be a ground frost by the time the nights out.

Deep Easterly

Made a spit of a showereen here around half an hour ago that didn't even register in recorder (i.e less than 0.1mm), not exactly the most dramatic breakdown after 2 weeks plus of heat and drought.

10.2c
69% rh
1014.0 mb falling to steady.
Wind moderate SE.

Supercell

Dull and overcast. Current temp 9.9°C
Looks like there's some pretty heavy rain in the west, hope it makes it here, its been very dry last couple of months.

DOCARCH

Very windy here this morning, gusting over 30mph (even on my dodgy anemometer!). This is not refelceted at Casemnet so must be a relatively local thing?

mike65

Same as yesterday without the bright and gusty bit.

Mike.

Deep Easterly

Currently 11.5c with light rain. Moderate SE wind.

81% rh
1011.3 mb steady.

arctictree

Supercell wrote: »

Dull and overcast. Current temp 9.9°C
Looks like there's some pretty heavy rain in the west, hope it makes it here, its been very dry last couple of months.

Yes, hope it makes it here, the garden could do with it. Looks like its making slow progress east. Hitting Waterford around now. mike65 - is it heavy there??!

A

mike65

Nope nothing happening yet. Edit! I looked out the window, its raining not heavy (yet).

edit edit - its heavyish but brightening at the same time!

Mike.

Deep Easterly

Snowbie, was going to post this on the "Cloud Thread" but the quality is a bit ****e due to bad light. Could you explain this type of cloud please? It has been occuring here since morning:



Was shopping in Claremorris earlier this afternoon and it was raining quite steadily and heavily there (10 miles west north west of here), but very little here (1.5mm since midnight), with that type of cloud structure in the pic dominating all day.

Looks more impressive in the actual than on the photo, but a quick talk through would be appreciatied, thanks:)

Snowbie

Thats a nimbostratus. Continuous rain or snowfall with this cloud ahead of a warm front or occuluded front. As it looks to be bordering on height with an altostratus, you can see the rain shadow in the background. The base of Nimbostratus can range from a few hundred feet (at the passage of the front)to 6500 feet a couple of hundred miles in advance of the front.

Very hard to capture a NS without rainfall obscuring it, but you done a good job and one i will use for an example in the cloud gallery.

Weather BOFH

High of 17.8C here today and quite nice in the sun earlier this afternoon.

Now 13.6C with a few drops of rain a while ago but not enough to even slightly wet the ground.

DOCARCH wrote: »

Very windy here this morning, gusting over 30mph

Rather windy here this morning also, gusts to around 30mph too.

Supercell

Bone dry here as usual, max 13.7°C

Last >10mm rain day was back in March 31st..for a elevated station on the side of a mountain thats a long time ago!

Danno

Max of 14.1c. A few drops of rain. Not enough to make the ground look damp. Breezy and overcast. A few sunny spells earlier. Currrently 12.1c

Deep Easterly

Snowbie wrote: »

Thats a nimbostratus..

Thanks Snowbie. The same cloud type is still here, made a heavy though brief shower at around 6.45pm, but the clouds remained the same! with no siteing of any lower cloud at all! Most odd.

Currently 11.4c with a brisk breeze and the odd spit.
82% rh
1009.4 mb falling slowly.

Weather BOFH

Rain has finally reached here though very light, 0.6mm in the last hour giving a total of 7.8mm for the month so far. Temp now down to 10.0C.

Heavy Rain
East 6mph
10.4c

Supercell

Misty and drizzly, max rain rate 0.4 mm/hr
0.8mm so far today.

mike65

November with added mild.

Mike.

Deep Easterly

Cloudy with a light, but occasional gusty wind.

14.6c
82% rh
1008.8 mb steady.

Deep Easterly

Absolute beaut of a shower here now. Has already given 10mm of rain since 2.20pm.

12.0c currently.
83% rh
1009.1 mb now rising.

arctictree

Bucketing down here now. 12.5c

A

Deep Easterly

Another batch of intense looking showers breaking out just to my south and east. Looks pretty severe over Tuam town at the moment. 13.5mm recorded here so far today.

13.1c
86% rh
1009.5 mb

mike65

Clearing up, a bit chilly.

Mike.

Supercell

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Another batch of intense looking showers breaking out just to my south and east. Looks pretty severe over Tuam town at the moment. 13.5mm recorded here so far today.

13.1c
86% rh
1009.5 mb

Not fair!, only 4mm here so far and drizzly muck all day, no proper rain.

Snowbie

Drizzly stuff here too with 1.5mm
Wind has now settled into the east again.
11.9c
Rh 92%
Dp 11c
Damp be it best described.

Deep Easterly

Grabbed another 4.1mm of rain in that last shower. Not as short and sharp as the earlier one, but more prolonged and only moderate at best. Total today now at 17.6mm, my wettest day of the month.

I reckon it will be at least double that along parts East Galway/West Roscommon border today as the most intense showers seem to have ran up there.

Cool and gloomy out now.
90%rh
1010.1 mb

Weather BOFH

Rain on and off most of the day but only 4.7mm fell in total.

High of 12.3C and now 10.7C in a light SE breeze.