Penzance Wettest day since 2021. >13C at midnight.

[Graham Easterling]

My day, for weather purposes, is 09:00 to 09:00.

The 24 hours to 09:00 today saw 37.2mm. That's the wettest since 38.3mm on 28th October 2021.

Also, the minimum of 5.3C occurred around noon yesterday, the maximum of 13.5C around midnight last night.

So an interesting day.

Graham

Penzance

(no typos, I think . .)

[Graham Easterling]

To make it clear, last nights minimum was 5.3C at noon yesterday. Yesterday's minimum was 0.1C

Graham

[Nick Gardner]

A large temperature contrast across the British Isles at 13:00 today. Warmest places down here in the South West, 14°C at Exeter Airport; coldest place is Loch Glascarnoch with -9°C. Biggest contrast across the south Midlands with 12°C at Lynham; 3°C at Gloucester Airport which is a distance of 27 miles. Image from XCWeather.

[Graham Easterling]

Interesting how cold it is in extreme SW Ireland, which has a climate more maritime than even the tip of Cornwall. Kerry airport currently 0C, even Valentia is only 2C, and way out in the Atlantic where the SST is in double figures, the M3 buoy is only 5C

Graham

Penzance

[Freddie]

The most interesting temperature gradient I've seen today is between Shawbury and Newport (Shropshire) at 2100 Z this evening.  1.8 at Shawbury and 11.5 at Newport.  The two locations are less than 12 miles apart.

Funnily enough, being somewhat upwind of Newport, you would've anticipated me being in the warm air before Newport.  But no - maximum today in Alcaston was 1.7 (at 2055 Z), and it is now 1.2 and decreasing.  I don't think there was enough flow to break up the cold low-level air in most of Shropshire and allow mixing down of the warmer air.