Adur
Weather 2011
- 2012
and Geological
Events
Maximum UK Recorded Air Temperatures
List of Cloud Types (Wikipedia)
Link to the Shoreham Weather Reports for 2010
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May 2012
These images of the raindrops on the Marsh Marigold sums up the inclement weather for the last half of April and beginning of May: generally inclement and overcast with rain almost every day. |
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27
March 2012
With
no cloud cover to keep in the heat, the air temperature fell over night
to 4.9° C
at
7:00
am
26
March 2012
The
air temperature in the sunshine under an azure blue sky recorded at 19.0
°C at
3:00
pm, the highest of the year.
24
March 2012
The
air temperature recorded at 17.6 °C at
11:00
am. This is the highest so far this year that
I have noted.
23
March 2012
The
sunshine came out in the afternoon and it felt quite pleasant, but the
air temperature only reached a maximum of 14.9
°C.
By
the red sunset
(6:19 pm), the fog
began to roll in at the entrance to Shoreham Harbour
where the end of the harbour piers were obscured from a viewpoint by the
Lifeboat
Station on Kingston Buci Beach. The
spring tide (forecasted 0.7 metres) had receded
to the Chart Datum mark.
In the night
sky (7:00 pm)
to
the east Mars
shined,Sirius
twinkled
to the south, and in the west,
Venus shone
brightly immediately above Jupiter.
22
March 2012
The
air temperature recorded at 16.3 °C at
5:00
pm and may have been higher earlier in the
day and this was probably the warmest temperature of the year.
Met
Office: Shoreham
12
March 2012
Under
a blue sky and weak sunshine (14.6
°C) the Sweet
Violets were flowering on Mill
Hill, where I saw two Peacock Butterflies
(my first two butterflies of the year), one
flying across the road at the top of the hill and another one fluttering
over the lower slopes. In the mid evening (9:00
pm) it was foggy.
The
flood equinoctial spring tide was one metre above
Chart
Datum at 9.00 pm
and one hour after low water. The fog lasted for about an hour.
Adur
Butterfly List
Sea
Temperature UK: 13 March 2010
UK
Sea Temperature Map
Fog
Information
23
February 2012
The
sun came out in the afternoon and the air temperature rose to 14.2
°C at 1:00
pm.
12
February 2012
It
was a cold night throughout with the air
temperature falling to minus 5.6 °C,
below minus 5.0 °C from
1:00
pm to 6:00 pm.
10
February 2012
The
air temperature fell to minus 6.4 °C
at 7:00 am (the
coldest of the year).
7 February
2012
It
was forecasted to be a cold night with the air temperature already below
freezing (minus 0.9 °C)
at 5:00 pm. The
lowest recorded at 10:00 pm
was minus 3.6 °C,
but it remained below freezing all night and only rose a fraction above
freezing throughout the morning. .
5 February
2012
It
is just above freezing in Shoreham town and damp but no snow, but I can
see a thin layer of snow on the downs from my top floor window at
midday.
4 February
2012
The
air temperature was minus 5.3 °C
at 8:00 am. At
8:00 pm there was a thin layer of snow of
about 2 mm on the pavement. By 10.00 pm
it had all melted and it rained.
3 February
2012
The
air temperature was minus 5.4 °C;
that's five below zero at 3 o'clock in the
morning. I had to go out and post the VAT
form. There was no wind (Force
2 from the north) but it sure felt chilly
out there, all wrapped up. It was not damp though. No snow was expected.
The air temperature fell to minus 6.3 °C
at 8:00 am (the
coldest of the year so far).
Met
Office: Shoreham
Lowest
Temperatures this Millennium 2010
2 February
2012
At
dawn (7:00 am)
the air temperature was recorded at minus
2.6 °C, the coldest so far this year.
Met
Office: Shoreham
3
January 2012
It
was a horrible morning with sheet rain and gales from the south-west, reaching
a steady Gale Force 8
from 10:00 am to midday and after,
and gusting to Storm Force 10 (59 mph)
from 11:00 am.
Beaufort
Scale
Met
Office: Shoreham
| 25
December 2011
The weather was dry and mild for the time of year, with a steady 10 °C throughout the day and a Gentle Breeze (Force 3). |
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| 12-13 December 2011 Midnight |
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| 12
December 2011
In the evening between 11:00 pm and midnight there was a steady just about Gale Force 8 (39 mph) but an occasional exceptional gust (62+ mph) to Storm Force 10 rattled even closed windows. Met Office: Shoreham |
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20
November 2011
A
photograph of the mist/clouds over the Adur
Valley viewed from Mill
Hill was shown on BBC
South Today. The low-lying clouds hung so low that Lancing
College could be seen rising out of them.
Images
by Dave Saunders Graphics (Link)
22
October 2011
It
was a virtually cloudless sky with just a few fluffy patches of Cirrus
exceeded in quantity by a few vapour
trails, at an air temperature of 12.3
°C.
3
October 2011
Out
in the hazy sun shone as it was forecasted to be the last warm day for
several months. The air temperature reached 20.5
°C at 3:00
pm with the breeze blowing from the south-west.
1 October
2011
My
thermometer recorded 24.5 °C
in the shade at 1.00 pm
whereas the official air temperature recorded
23.0 °C at 1.00
pm.
Met
Office: Shoreham
Record
October Temperature in Kent
28
September 2011
Under
a clear blue sky, the proximity of the colder sea may have limited the
air temperature to a maximum of 21.1 °C
(the
lowest maximum in the south-east, Gravesend recorded 27.1 °C).
27
September 2011
The
day was not as sunny as forecasted and in the late afternoon a fret
(sea mist) obscured the Shoreham Harbour Power
Station chimney when viewed from Dolphin Road in Shoreham.
The air temperature was 16.0 °C
at 5.00 pm when
the fret occurred. Before the fret the air temperature at 3.00
pm was 17.9 °C.
The south-east
wind speed was 7 mph.
A set fret occurs when when a parcel of warm air passes over the colder
sea.
BBC
Sea Fret Page
12
September 2011
As
northern Britain is battered
by gales in the wake of Hurricane
Katia, the conditions at Shoreham were
possible for cycling in when
the wind dropped, reaching Force
6 gusting to Force 8 (44 mph) WSW
at 18.9 °C. Whitecaps
formed on both the River
Adur at high tide
(adjacent to the Airport) and just off the coast
where the south-westerly wind direction was apparent from the alignment
of the waves.
6 September
2011
That
gust was too dangerous to cycle in: Gale
Force 7 gusting to Force 9 (52
mph), but only twice in my life have I seen
anything like a gust lasting for just a second (and once I was blown off
my bike whilst walking it). This could be a gust to Storm
Force 10 as reported on the BBC
South Weather News (where they included a gust of 86
mph, Force 12,
at the Needles
on the Isle of Wight).
Met
Office: Shoreham
15
July 2011
"St
Swithin's Day, if it does rain
Full
forty days, it will remain
St
Swithin's Day, if it be fair
For
forty days, t'will rain no more"
It
rained.
14
July 2011
An
Earthquake
of 3.9 magnitude (depth 10 km, poorly
constrained) was felt in Shoreham
at 7:59 am. Its
epicentre was 89 km (55 miles) SSW
of Brighton,
10 km under the English
Channel.
26
June 2011
Thunder
over
Shoreham and simultaneous flashes of forked
lightning every minute at 2:00
pm onwards. Not much rain at first, but large
drops. Appreciable rain
started at 2:10 pm. but
stopped by 2:16 pm.
There was a couple of minutes of hail around 2:45
pm.
26
June 2011
The
sun burnt off the early morning mist (which obscured Mill
Hill in the mid-morning). At 1:00
pm the air temperature was 17.0
°C but by 8:00
pm it rose to
24.1 °C.
8 June
2011
It
was still blowing a Force
5 all day, this time from the south-west.
4 June
2011
It
was warm and blustery, the warmest day
of the year so far recorded at 25.8
°C at
3:00
pm, but again spoilt by steady Strong Breeze
(Force 6) from the north-east gusting to Gale
Force
7 all through
the day. North of the Toll Bridge,
Old Shoreham, the north wind was causing frequent whitecaps at high tide.
3 June
2011
It
was an almost perfect blue sky with a few streaks of wispy Cirrus
clouds and a pleasant 23.5 °C
which was the the warmest day of
the year so far, spoilt by steady Strong Breeze (Force
6) from the north-east gusting to Gale Force
7 in the afternoon.
Met
Office: Shoreham
25
May 2011
Under
a wispy Cirrus-streaked
blue sky it was a steady Strong Breeze (Force
6) gusting to Gale Force
8 in the middle of the day. Throughout the
afternoon the rain Cumulus
clouds moved over and the Strong Breeze continued mostly throughout, increasing
to a steady Gale Force 7
before reducing to Force 5.
There were brief and heavy rain showers, and regular gusts to 45 mph (Force
8). The moderate
to large waves blowing in from the south-west were topped by whitecaps.
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23
May 2011
For
one day the wind dropped under a Cirrocumulus
blue sky.
22
May 2011
It
was far too breezy (a steady Force
6) to photograph flowers.
24
April 2011
Easter
Sunday was
the
warmest day
of the year so far, reaching 22.8 °C
at
both
2:00 pm
and 3:00 pm,
the same as the previous day but for a longer period of time.
23
April 2011
Advection
fog set in over the sea at Lancing
(east Widewater) as the tide turned and the visibility
was diminished to under 50 metres at 10:30
am. It was the warmest
day of the year so far, reaching
22.8
°C at
midday.
21
April 2011
It
was the warmest day
of the year so far, reaching 21.1 °Cat1:00
pm.
20
April 2011
It
was the first warm day
of the year when the air temperature at midday
reached a qualifying 20.3 °C
under a clear blue sky.
Met
Office: Shoreham
7 April
2011
The
sun shone throughout the day and the air temperature reached 18.8
°C, the highest of the year so far.
22
March 2011
The
sun appeared and the air temperature reached 15
°C.
8 March
2011
There
was a thin layer of ice on my garden pond all morning, followed by the
sunniest afternoon so far this year which an air temperature reaching an
estimated 11 °C.
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6 March 2011
There
was a noticeable chilly easterly breeze throughout the daylight hours,
but my garden pond was not frozen over at dawn.
7 January
2011
The
first rays of sunshine of the year occurred for about an hour around midday.
4 January
2011
Low
clouds obscured a partial Solar
Eclipse which occurred in Sussex after
the sun rose over the horizon between 8:00
am and 9:30 am.
Selected
weather reports for 2010
