PITLOCHRY

Daily Weather Records

OS sheet 52   ref. 94 58    alt.142m

       Sat. 21st  November                  Observations  from this site were made today at 0935

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PITLOCHRY TODAY---.A dry, bright start, but increasing cloud will bring a spell of rain from the south by around lunchtime, with winds increasing from the south or south east. Max temp around 9 degrees. The rain should die out during the evening, leaving some clear spells but a chance of an odd shower.

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OUTLOOK—Staying windy & unsettled with more general rain likely for a time on Sunday & Tuesday.     England’s wettest inhabited spot, SEATHWAITE (Cumbria), entered the record books again after Thursday’s deluge, recording some 314mms of rain (12.3 inches) in a 24hr period. This is convincingly the heaviest 24hr rainfall total on record for the whole of Britain.

SPECIAL NOTE-----Always check MET OFFICE RADAR to track rain belts or showers, when appropriate (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html).

Also gives a general forecast for  Central, Tayside & Fife + 15 day outlook & current conditions .  5-day pressure charts also available.

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Temperature at obs. Time today        

          3.8

 

AVERAGES AND EXTREMES
FOR MONTH OF NOVEMBER
 (Since 1976)            

Av. Max. Temp  8.3
Av. Min. Temp.    1.6
Record High Temp. 16.5
Record low temp  -12.6

Long-term av. Rainfall   93mms
Wettest Month  190mms(1984)
Driest Month   19mms(1983)   

 

 Maximum Temperature (last 24hrs)

          10.0

 

Minimum Temperature (last 24hrs)

           2.1

 

Grass Minimum Temperature (last 24hrs)

           -1.7

 

Rainfall Total (last 24hrs)  

            6.3mms

 

Barometer  at  observation time today

           1011mbs

 

Wind at observation time today

            SE1

 

This month’s highest temperature to date

        13.0(19th)

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This month’s lowest temperature to date

        -5.5 (9th) 

 

This month’s highest 24hr rainfall total to date

         

 

This month’s total rainfall to date

      130.7mms

 

 

Monthly Summary

OCTOBER 2009.    Rainfall total 86.8mms

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Monthly Historical Information

Month

2009

Mean Max Temp

Mean Min Temp

Highest Max Temp

Lowest Max Temp

Highest Min Temp

Lowest Min Temp

Rainfall Total

Wettest 24hr Total

January

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March

9.6

1.1

14.6

4.2

6.9

-4.6

74.5

16.2

April

13.4

3.4

18.0

8.2

8.5

-2.3

61.4

13.8

May

14.7

4.6

23.1

9.7

12.8

-1.0

77.3

14.1

June

18.2

8.6

26.9

12.2

14.9

0.6

61.9

19.2

July

19.2

10.8

27.2

15.9

17.0

4.8

88.2

18.4

August

 18.3

10.6

21.5

14.6

15.1

 5.5

115.4

n/a

September

 16.7

 8.7

 22.0

11.8

13.2

 2.3

 58.1

 12.5

October

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


About the Author

My interest in the weather began in 1961 when I took over as observer at the school’s weather station at Matlock, Derbyshire. The severe winter of 1962/63 gave a boost to my enthusiasm, as I recorded temperatures down to -17 & observed snow lying continuously from Dec.19th until March 3rd !   University days found me moving north to Dundee, reading for an Honours Degree in Geography & incidentally discovering that depressing weather feature of the haar, capable of wrecking promising spring & summer days on the Scottish East Coast!!    Married life & a career in teaching saw us move to the Middlesbrough area—not only another spot suffering from sea fog but also some significant snowfalls in northerlies as well!! It was at this time that I joined the Climate Observers Link—a group of enthusiasts who exchange weather data each month.  The following years saw us move around the country, always setting up a weather station. We were in London during the 1976 heatwave  & in Lancashire for a number of years afterwards, including on the west coast at Southport during the early eighties.  In 1998, I was lucky enough to spend a half-day at the BBC Weather Centre in London as guest of the then lead-presenter Helen Young which I still regard  as the highlight point of my hobby,  even having a recording of myself doing a weather broadcast.  In 2003, we moved north to Grantown on Spey where I soon found myself working for the Met Office, manning their climate station which is notorious in the record books for being one of  the  coldest spots in Britain (minus 26.8 in Jan 1982)        Barry

 

Favourite links:

Aberfeldy weather site http://aberfeldyweather.com/

BBC Weather page http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/

                                                                                     MET Office Rainfall Radar http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html

Weather online      www.weatheronline.co.uk          

Meteox        www.meteox.com

 

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