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Mothman

Earthman wrote:

LoL

The letters from the DVO say wicklow East The southEast is 1 field away though-co wexford.

Better be careful, with all this rain you're recording you may just slip into the SE

Meanwhile a few spots of rain have fallen here

Beautifull day today but almost crisp maxing out briefly at 10.7c

If theres no rain before midnight, this will be the first entirely dry day since early october ie in a month.

Mothman

Earthman wrote:

If theres no rain before midnight, this will be the first entirely dry day since early october ie in a month.

Bad forecast, you may wait a few more days for a dry day.


6hrs sunshine today.

dloob

Well in Galway it's yet another wet and windy night.
Last year there was a few weeks where the wind never seemed to die down.

Mothman

Mothman wrote:

Bad forecast, you may wait a few more days for a dry day.


6hrs sunshine today.

lol
yeah I know
1mm here though I was in tinahely earlier and they had considerably more.

Temperature dropping like a stone here.

Already down to 1.2 c with a hard frost after setting in

It's dropped something like a degree in a half hour.

0 or below is likely at this rate for the first time since I got my weather station set up

Flat calm, though there was a brief 2mph easterly which I thought might stop the temp dropping.

Mothman

First zub zero air temp of season coming up in a few hours. Currently 2.4C

Grass temp is -4C

3.1c here which is actually a rise on 2 hours ago

Darwin

Dropped 4C here in the last number of hours - now at 0.7C, gonna be cold tonight

Supercell

Earthman wrote:

3.1c here which is actually a rise on 2 hours ago

Risen here also, to be honest the recent warm years have left me wanting frost as little as possible - jan and feb, novembers way to early!!

Am also a learner car driver and know for a fact that skidding would not be handled well here yet, as the natural car handling reflexis are still in a learning phase.

Mothman

Earthman wrote:

3.1c here which is actually a rise on 2 hours ago

Now you have weather station, you'll see all the wobbles the temp does during night.

Now 1.7C, grass -4C

Min so far 1.2 C, grass -4.5C

2.3 at 1800,

3.2 at 1920,

1.2 at 2020

2.1 at 2040 mins ago

now 1.7

Mothman

Longfield wrote:

Risen here also, to be honest the recent warm years have left me wanting frost as little as possible - jan and feb, novembers way to early!!

Dates of first air frost in previous years
2005 ???
2004 14.11
2003 27.10
2002 24.10
2001 9.12
2000 5.11

So all but 2001 have had air frost earlier than 16th November.

Looking at NRA stations at 2000h

http://www.nra.ie/RoadWeatherInfo/Map/data/htm/WeatherTable.htm

A whole rake getting close to zero, with only N81 at Baltinglass actually below.

Road temps are generally 1-2C above air temp.

Of the Met Eireann stations, a few reporting 1C, Mullingar at 0C

Meanwhile with me. Air has fallen to 1.1C, grass temp -5C

Mothman

Plenty of sub zeroes at the NRA stations with -2C at Baltinglass the lowest.
Also -1 at Mullingar and zero at Birr and Kilkenny.

Some cloud in Wicklow, with temp hovering about 2C

1.8c
It was actually colder here the other night for a time.
I'm expecting it to fall to 0 this time or below.

In other news I saw a grey squirrell gathering food up a tree here today.
I've never ever seen one here before and theres no wood for at least a couple of miles.

It came out of hiding.

The baltinglass one is in a great area for winter weather nestled close to the mountains and a good bit inland,its nearly 40 miles from me ie as far away as Dublin almost.

It has height above sea level too doesnt it? It's often snowing there when we have rain.
But then it snows in bally coogue when we have rain and thats only 4 miles away-its adjacent to ground that rises to 1800ft though and is somewhere around 7 or 800ft itself and 6 miles inland

Mothman

Earthman wrote:

In other news I saw a grey squirrell gathering food up a tree here today.
I've never ever seen one here before and theres no wood for at least a couple of miles.

It came out of hiding.

They've really been noticeable this year, and see them frequently in garden now.

Temp 2.6C,
Grass only just below freezing now.

Have to wait for cloud to shift.

Mothman

Earthman wrote:

The baltinglass one is in a great area for winter weather nestled close to the mountains and a good bit inland,its nearly 40 miles from me ie as far away as Dublin almost.

Don't know where the AWS is, but the Slaney valley is probably a bit of a frost hollow, hence the low temp.

Mothman

Mothman wrote:

They've really been noticeable this year, and see them frequently in garden now.

I wonder is that a sign of something?
We were staring at this one from the kitchen window this morning scurrying up and down the tree.Fascinated me simply because I so rarely see them and certainly never here.

Temp 2.6C,
Grass only just below freezing now.

Have to wait for cloud to shift.

It's clear down here now,the stars are out with little specks of clouds.
Theres a good covering of frost on the jeep outside.

1.5

1.4

1.3

Dropping fast

1.1

( indoor temp is rising though )

And we have our first air frost here since the arrival of the Davis AWS

-.1c

Mothman

Equal record low temp for Nov with -1.8C and -6C on the grass. records since 1999

Mullingar and Casement both dropped to -3C

and a roadside AWS near Baltinglass in west Co. Wicklow is reporting -5C which I believe if i'm at -2C

Quite cloudy down here and by the looks of things its been that way since a good few hours ago when the temp started rising.
light breeze also.

currently 2.9c

Mothman

With the sunshine and calm, temp has already risen above 8C

Gonzo

I think its only about 4C or 5C where I am, its a very nice crisp sunny day but the Frost is still on the ground in shaded areas.

Danno

Cloudy here since around 12.

Cool. 4.7c

sunset

No overnight frost here in Cork. Temperatures only went down to +5C.

Gonzo

3C now, clear and frosty

Supercell

Temps not dropping like last night here, looking at http://www.xcweather.co.uk/ it seems like the really cold weather has moved east, that said the night is young.

Interesting the comments about Baltinglas, was speaking to a colleague in work today that lives about 20 miles from there and he said it always seems to be much colder there in winter.
Looking on a map, its not overly high up, but is in the foothills of the Wicklow mountains so i assume does get prone to Katabatic type winds in winter, or, perhaps the soil is sandy like Redhill in England that often gets the lowest UK temps?
Any Wicklow people (or others) got theories for the Baltinglas cold spot ?

Supercell

Jaysus no sooner do i post that the drop isnt so strong tonight when we get a 4c drop in an hour!!


EIDW 172000Z VRB03KT 9999 FEW020 BKN220 01/01 Q1018 NOSIG
EIDW 171930Z 22003KT 9999 FEW020 SCT200 03/02 Q1018 NOSIG
EIDW 171900Z 18005KT 9999 FEW020 SCT200 05/03 Q1018 NOSIG

Looks like i'll be scraping the car windows again tomorrow morning!