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Viking3
15 January 2025 11:50:25
Blazing sunshine and 14.7C - extraordinary contrast from the weekend. 
Keith
Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
135m asl
Tim A
15 January 2025 12:12:25
Nice sunshine here too.
8.7c.

Tim
NW Leeds
187m asl

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Snowfall Winter 24/25: 18/11 5cm, 23/11 9cm, 22/12: dusting, 5/1 16cm, 6/1 6cm top-up , 7/1 1cm top-up.
Crepuscular Ray
15 January 2025 12:35:56
A beautiful day, clear blue sky and a gentle breeze from the SW. 11.5 C, no gloves today on my walk up the hill!!
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
fairweather
15 January 2025 12:59:06

We're back to the dull, grey and mild mode of winter now - but at least it's pretty much calm.
Oddly, despite relatively warm temperatrues (8.4, dew 7.8) everything is soaking wet - the roads, pavements, grass, bins etc - it looks for all the world like it's been raining, but of course it hasn't. The lawn is squelchy today, I think it's still frozen an inch or so down and thus it's trapping all the melted frost / dew on top.
Last night's low was 7.3, with yesterday's high being 9.2. Not a great performance by the models, TBH, as even 2 days out they were going for a much colder night!

Originally Posted by: Retron 


Tell me about it - I was in Leysdown yesterday and slipped and fell in the mud along the sea wall along by Shellness! 
As you say, back to the modern high presssure of greyness. gloom and drizzle. Still had a week's respite from this miserable of winters.
8C calm and grey. I think I prefer marginally zonal where the West gets the wind and rain and we get the lighter winds and at least some blue sky from  time to time.
S.Essex, 42m ASL
Viking3
15 January 2025 13:36:48
Date record for today is 16.0C recorded at Colwyn Bay in 1990, and the 13z observation from Aboyne Met Office station was 15.2C. 
Probably won't quite make it but crazy after the bitter cold of a few days ago.
Keith
Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
135m asl
idj20
15 January 2025 13:50:56
As Retron says, back to default flat grey featureless skies thus making the current 10 C & low 90% H feel cool, damp and clammy. My rain gauge is showing 0.4 mm so far today, yet no precipitation was observed. At least it's dead calm. 
Folkestone Harbour. 
tierradelfuego
15 January 2025 14:06:27
Unsurprisingly, given the difference here is that the sun is out, it feels pleasant outside.

Other than that it is 9.7c, 93% RH, 0.4mm rain and dead calm... almost exactly the same. 
Bucklebury
West Berkshire Downs AONB
135m ASL

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Retron
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15 January 2025 14:17:54

Tell me about it - I was in Leysdown yesterday and slipped and fell in the mud along the sea wall along by Shellness! 
As you say, back to the modern high presssure of greyness. gloom and drizzle. Still had a week's respite from this miserable of winters.
8C calm and grey. I think I prefer marginally zonal where the West gets the wind and rain and we get the lighter winds and at least some blue sky from  time to time.

Originally Posted by: fairweather 


Leysdown? Going towards Shellness, the dodgy hamlet where they don't like visitors? That can only mean you were going to the nudist beach! 😂 (It's a thing of legend locally, we inadvertently visited it on a school geography trip in the 90s. The teacher driving the minibus laughed when I said there was a nudist beach there, but we found it easily enough!)
Hope you enjoyed the Sheppey mud, anyway, and had a good walk / saw the birds you were after!

The back garden is still a quagmire, FWIW. I was hoping the water would have soaked in, but it's in no hurry to do so. I guess the 96% humdity isn't helping either (9.3, dew 8.7).


Leysdown, north Kent
Viking3
15 January 2025 15:34:16
In fact the Met Office are saying that yesterday's date record of 15.6C was broken by Cassley in Sutherland which recorded 15.7C overnight. According to the observations it was 15.6C at 0300 this morning, so the 15.7C will be credited to "yesterday" i.e. the 14th for the official statistics.
Cassley is only a few miles from Altnaharra which recorded -18.9C on the morning of 11th!
Keith
Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
135m asl
fairweather
15 January 2025 18:27:27

Leysdown? Going towards Shellness, the dodgy hamlet where they don't like visitors? That can only mean you were going to the nudist beach! 😂 (It's a thing of legend locally, we inadvertently visited it on a school geography trip in the 90s. The teacher driving the minibus laughed when I said there was a nudist beach there, but we found it easily enough!)
Hope you enjoyed the Sheppey mud, anyway, and had a good walk / saw the birds you were after!

The back garden is still a quagmire, FWIW. I was hoping the water would have soaked in, but it's in no hurry to do so. I guess the 96% humdity isn't helping either (9.3, dew 8.7).

Originally Posted by: Retron 


That stretch is always good for birds. Shorelarks a couple of years ago and I did see a short eared owl yesterday. Mind, I only went there because I messed up and Elmley is closed on a Tuesday which I forgot!
S.Essex, 42m ASL
Jiries
15 January 2025 19:23:06
Felt like early Spring like full sunshine from mid morning to sunset and nicely warm the conservatory to 22.3c with sun now starting to be stronger, won't be long to see 25C then 30C soon.  Must be around 12-13C outside today.
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15 January 2025 20:42:59
Reached 11.9C here but to south of moors a few places not much above freezing with pools of fog.
They are down to -1 again now whereas here about 9C.
Humidity is doing strange things it dropped precipitously through the afternoon to as low as 46% and is still around 55%
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16 January 2025 07:52:27
6.5C overcast.

It was cloudy all day here yesterday, but Fareham, only 25 miles away, had reasonable amount of sunshine
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16 January 2025 07:59:01
4C. Calm with medium to thick density fog.
Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft
Windy Willow
16 January 2025 08:23:19
Foggy and breezy! 2.8c 95% RH
South Holland, Lincs 5m/16ft ASL

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four
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16 January 2025 08:34:47
Well below freezing again across Ryedale with some around -4, here it's 7C with humidity 45% things drying up nicely might be a huge forest fire shortly.
Retron
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16 January 2025 08:43:05
There's some very odd weather around at the moment. Most places are reporting high humidity, but there are pockets (like Four's area) which are reporting very low humidity. Leek, for example, is warm (+8C) with a -13C dewpoint - just 21% RH. Yet not a million miles away at Manchester it's -1/-3, or -1/-1 at Nottingham. It's an inversion of course, and they tend to be capped with very dry air. Leek is clearly poking into that layer of dry air, while the others are safely tucked underneath it.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/observations/gcqw1upty 

Here it's just murky and dull, 6.7, dew 5.6, with all surfaces remaining soaking wet. The low last night was 6.6 and yesterday's high was 9.8.
Leysdown, north Kent
Bolty
16 January 2025 08:48:25
An interesting temperature inversion going around here at the moment. Looking at Wonderground, a lot of local weather stations (including mine) are recording 4-5°C, but go a couple miles further south and east (where the elevation is lower) and they sit at around 0/-1°C.

Other than that, a beautiful morning with bright winter sunshine. Hopefully a nice sunny day to come.
Scott
Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.
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Tim A
16 January 2025 09:13:16
4.0c and clear. 
Low 0.5c and very icy, probably more than it would normally be with those temps as the ground just still be quite cool. At least it's preserving the piles of snow. 
Tim
NW Leeds
187m asl

 My PWS 
Snowfall Winter 24/25: 18/11 5cm, 23/11 9cm, 22/12: dusting, 5/1 16cm, 6/1 6cm top-up , 7/1 1cm top-up.
idj20
16 January 2025 11:00:50
That's a bit better, bright with some Winter sunshine thus making the current 10.2 C & high 80% H feel mild in light winds. An improvement on yesterday.
Folkestone Harbour. 
Tim A
16 January 2025 11:12:42
Actually 8c now with a frozen ground in my shaded garden.  And 10C at LBA which is more exposed to the bright sunshine.  Ground must still be very cold to retain a frost in those temps. 
Tim
NW Leeds
187m asl

 My PWS 
Snowfall Winter 24/25: 18/11 5cm, 23/11 9cm, 22/12: dusting, 5/1 16cm, 6/1 6cm top-up , 7/1 1cm top-up.
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16 January 2025 12:09:32
The mist and fog lifts. Not quite cold enough for a frost but moist enough to keep the ground soggy.
Beautiful landscapes though.
Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft
Retron
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16 January 2025 12:12:10
Unexpectedly sunny here, not that I'm complaining! The MetO raw has low cloud all day, the text forecast mentions drizzle, but the sun's beating down and - at long last - slowly drying things out. It's noticeably higher in the sky too.

It seems to be a slot of drier air moving NW'wards from the European mainland, and it'll reach Essex soon if not already there.

9.3, dew 7.2, the humidity having fallen somewhat as the sun's popped out.
Leysdown, north Kent
Crepuscular Ray
16 January 2025 12:25:18
Another beautiful sunny day here with a bit of high cloud around
8 C at the moment after a low of 4 C
Sun is starting to get above the horizon briefly now and is shining onto my chair where I'm sat. Very welcome after 6 weeks of no sun on the house
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
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16 January 2025 12:33:03

Another beautiful sunny day here with a bit of high cloud around
8 C at the moment after a low of 4 C
Sun is starting to get above the horizon briefly now and is shining onto my chair where I'm sat. Very welcome after 6 weeks of no sun on the house

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray 


Still a few more weeks before the back garden gets full sun again. The plus is that winter flowering snowdrops et al stay in bloom longer.
Snowdrops only just appearing through soil here. But you certainly notice it's lighter at 5.15/30pm
Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft

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