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WEATHER REPORT: We have just patchy wintry
showers into late Monday evening We
have NO SNOW AT ALL on the ground in Buxton on Monday night -
ROAD REPORTS:
"The A6 South from Morrison's roundabout in
Buxton to the junction with the A5270 Old Coldpit Lane at the top of Topley
Pike, is NOW OPEN AGAIN " @ 13.15 Monday
TRAFFIC REPORTS ...... ...THESE WORKS AT DOVE HOLES/CHAPEL HAVE BEEN POSTPONED - will start at a date
to be announced ( Thank you Helen Hilland for the update) The back road between
Dove Holes and Chapel (Long Lane) is closed until
approximately mid-April. From Dove Holes you will be able to get to the top of
the hill and go down Ashbourne Lane to Chapel, but Long Lane is closed, so no
access through to Chapel Train Station/Chapel High School etc...
Severn Trent Water again!!"
AND .... "Dukes Drive" - the shortcut which runs from the A515, bottom of Cemetery
Hill in Buxton, to the A6 Bakewell Road near Morrison's, is closed - Severn
Trent Water - UPDATE! : Seems this road is now closed to 30th April! - (You can access the farm shop at Dukes Drive from the A6
Morrison's end) ..
AND in the Goyt Valley - the road from Errwood House car park to Derbyshire
Bridge, is closed for repairs, after a landslip - closed until March 2020!
WEATHER FORECAST: ......... Monday Evening
and Night: patchy showers through the evening, turning increasingly wintry -
then, through nighttime the showers becoming heavier at times and turning more
to snow, even at lower levels, but especially over higher ground - there could
be significant snow on the ground into Tuesday morning - brisk westerly winds -
turning cold again overnight with a ground frost - Minimum Air Temperature 1 °C
Tuesday:
Tuesday: cold - heavy wintry showers through the day, falling as snow even at
lower levels but especially over higher ground in the Peak District - showers
likely turning wetter through the middle of the day - some bright intervals at
times - brisk westerly winds - Maximum Air Temperature 3 °C.
Tuesday Evening and Night: snow showers continuing through the evening and night
- quite brisk westerly winds - cold overnight with a ground and air frost -
Minimum Air Temperature 0 °C
Wednesday to Friday:
Wednesday: cold - wintry showers, falling as snow especially over higher ground
- some bright intervals - showers easing later in the day - very brisk north
westerly winds - Maximum Air Temperature 3 °C. Thursday: scattered wintry
showers - brisk north westerly winds - Maximum Air Temperature 3 °C. Friday: a
little more mild - showers, a little wintry at times - fairly brisk westerly
winds - Maximum Air Temperature 5 °C..................................
The weather seems to be stuck on a
repeating weekly cycle of strong winds and heavy rain, and, with the ground
already saturated, the rain rapidly sets off another round of flooding.
More strong winds will prevail across England and Wales early this week. On
Monday by yet another deep area of low pressure, which is expected to hit the UK
with wind and heavy rain. The cause of this latest episode of foul weather is
(as I mentioned before Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis) more Arctic air plunging
down into North America. As that cold air bumps into much milder air farther
south it injects a big burst of energy into the jet stream high above, driving
it into a furious torrent of high-speed winds. As the jet stream powers across
the Atlantic it drives depressions into high winds and heavy rains and sends
them hurtling towards the UK.
This month is on course to become the wettest February on record .
BUT..... More on "Hope Springs Eternal"
.........................Haven't we
had a torrid time over the last few weeks with wind and rain and one storm after
another!, but there is hope ahead — the hours of daylight are growing longer at
an ever increasing pace. When the days "turned" the change was barely a minute a
day - but now, daylight hours are increasing by nearly 4 minutes a day each day.
It takes a few weeks from late December before we really notice the change.
It may seem strange that it is still so cold when the daylight hours are growing
longer at an increasing pace. This is because our environment is like a giant
storage radiator - it heats and cools very slowly. It takes a long time for the
land and sea to lose the heat they had absorbed over the previous summer, but
now in late winter the land and sea are reaching their coldest points of the
year, and that has a big impact on our weather - especially as our storm travel
(the "wind run") crosses the cold Atlantic Ocean!.
Photographs - delighted to receive your
photographs (please send to Michael - email mh@22mh.com) and display on this
site - anything about this lovely area we live in - which will be of interest to
viewers of buxtonweather.co.uk - I will always credit the sender - (and I may
take the liberty of adding some local information, and local history!). Photos
relating to our weather, local events, our wonderful Peak District scenery,
local animals and birds, love of the great outdoors - or what have you!! I
may
delay posting photos, through extreme weather events - will save them for once things
calm down again! Please
click on a photo to see the full size versions of all the photos - then just
click the back arrow at the top left, to come back to here:
AND I have had requests to see photos which have been removed - so from April
1st 2019, I have started an archive of previously shown photographs
CLICK HERE to see
those.
Busy
recently week putting cameras in bird
boxes (you might remember that I have placed them live online previously) -
getting ready just in case we get lucky with nesting in the Spring - straight
away can see that an enterprising blue tit is seeking refuge from the winds and
weather, in one or our boxes ! - every night around 5.20pm it flies in and
settles down in this box, fluffs up its feathers to conserve heat, and sleeps
until the following dawn - lovely to see - CLICK ON THE BLUE TIT if you would like to see
it (Now sound added to the video) AND my neighbour
Michael Pick has recorded an online shot of the bird arriving in the box last
Friday, at 5 past 5 in
the evening CLICK
HERE to see that
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-UK, Met Office - Longer Range Forecast, for the entire UK ©Met
Office.:
----Friday
28 Feb - Sunday 8 Mar
To start the period, unsettled and often windy conditions will continue with
areas of rain moving east across the UK, interspersed with brighter, showery
interludes. Rain is likely to be heaviest across western areas, with wintry
showers in the north. The south will see the best of any more prolonged drier
interludes. Continuing through the period, there is an increased chance of deep
low pressure systems affecting somewhere in the UK, causing large amounts of
rainfall and very strong winds. Temperatures are likely to frequently oscillate
between rather cold and rather mild. During any colder interludes, there is
likely to be some snow on the high ground of the north. The weather may become
more settled in the southeast at the very end of this period, though remaining
unsettled elsewhere.
Sunday 8 Mar - Sunday 22 Mar
A continuation of the unsettled weather is expected at first in the north, with
spells of rain and strong winds broken by brighter, but showery conditions. The
heaviest rain and strongest winds are expected in the northwest. It should be
more settled with drier conditions expected in southern and eastern parts.
Progressing through this period, conditions will likely turn more settled across
most areas by the middle of March, with more prolonged dry spells possible,
especially in the south. Any further spells of wet and windy weather most likely
in the north. Temperatures mostly above average, but there will be large diurnal
variations should more settled conditions take control, with frosts becoming
likely.------------------
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well as my own weather station in Harpur Hill in Buxton, at
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I am proud to be a member of the Team of
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road conditions, in snowy periods
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Stores Quarnford, near The Travellers Rest Pub, (On the A53 Leek Road)
Height 469 Mts- CLICK HERE:!
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Estate in Whaley Bridge - overlooking the River Goyt
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Click below to a webcam at White Hall Outdoor Education Centre, Long
Hill, Buxton
This camera, at a height of about 410 Metres, looks out in a north
westerly direction, to Castle Naze, and over to the Kinder Plateau above
Edale, in the far distance.(Updated every 5 minutes)
Buxton Market Place CAMERA IS NO LONGER FUNCTIONING
© M Hilton - All Rights ReservedConditions
At:
22:43 on 24/2/20
Dew
Point
1.7°C
Humidity
88%
Barometer
(corrected to sea level)
1002mB
Rate 0.06mB/hr
Wind Figures:
Wind
Speed
17mph
Wind
Direction
NW
Wind
Chill (How the temperature actually "feels")
-1.6
°C
Wind Currently Gusting To
35mph
Peak Wind Gust Today
51mph at 17:33
Rainfall
Figures:
Rainfall Today (Since Midnight)
13.4 mm
Rainfall in the last hour
0.0
mm
Total
Rainfall in February
176.8 mm
Total
Rainfall in January
75 . 2 mm (2.96 inches)
Total
Rainfall in December
113 . 6 mm (4.47 inches)
Total
Rainfall in November
170 . 4 mm (6.71 inches)
Total
Rainfall in October
140 . 6 mm (5.54 inches)
Total
Rainfall in September
162 . 4 mm (6.39 inches)
Total
Rainfall in August
107.2 mm (4.22 inches)
Total
Rainfall in July
153.2 mm (6.03 inches)
Total
Rainfall in June
103.6 mm (4.08 inches)
Total
Rainfall in May
47.6 mm (1.87 inches)
Total
Rainfall in April
88 . 4 mm (3.48 inches)
Total
Rainfall in March
187 . 6 mm (7.35 inches)
Total
Rainfall in February
61 . 2 mm (2.41 inches)
Total
Rainfall in January
88 . 6 mm (3.49 inches) (inc
snow melt)
Total Rainfall in 2019
1424.2 mm (56.07 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2018
1038.8 mm (40.90 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2017
1250.4 mm (49.23 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2016
1055.2 mm (41.54 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2015
1191.20 mm (46.90 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2014
(For
earlier figures see the link top left)
1245.60 mm (49.04 inches)
Sunshine Figures:
Sunshine hours on Sunday
(Sunrise to Sunset)
(Updated after Sunset)
1 . 97 Hours
Sun Hours in February
37 . 76 Hours
Sun Hours in January
32 . 94 Hours
Sun Hours in December
43 . 88 Hours
Sun Hours in November
24 . 08 Hours
Sun Hours in October
77 . 80 Hours
Sun Hours in September
132 . 06 Hours
Sun Hours in August
152 . 60 Hours
Sun Hours in July
168 . 20 Hours
Sun Hours in June
125. 60 Hours
Sun Hours in May
176 . 66 Hours
Sun Hours in April
170 . 48 Hours
Sun Hours in March
105 . 12 Hours
Sun Hours in February
106 . 16 Hours
Sun Hours in January
29 . 25 Hours
Sun Hours in 2019
1316.47 Hours
Sun Hours in 2018
1431.27 Hours
Sun Hours in 2017
1096 . 00 Hours
Sun Hours in 2016
1219 . 59 Hours
Sun Hours in 2015
1239 . 88 Hours
Sun Hours in 2014(For
earlier figures see the link top left)
1226 . 69 Hours
Monthly Average Temperatures:
Average Temp in
January
4 . 87 °C
Average Temp in
December
4 . 36 °C
Average Temp in
November
4 . 55 °C
Average Temp in
October
7 . 96 °C
Average Temp in
September
12.14 °C
Average Temp in
August
15.21 °C
Average Temp in
July
15.89 °C
Average Temp in
June
12.38 °C
Average Temp in
May
9
.79 °C
Average Temp in
April
7
. 47 °C
Average Temp in
March
5
. 97 °C
Average Temp in
February
5
. 57 °C
Average Temp in
January
2 . 53 °C
Average Temp in
December 2018
5. 38 °C
Average Temp in
2019
8. 65 °C
Average Temp in
2018
8. 87 °C
Average Temp in
2017
9. 60 °C
Average Temp in
2016
8. 95 °C
Average Temp in
2015
8. 54 °C
Average Temp in
2014
(For earlier figures
see the link top left)
9. 24 °C
Today's
Temperature Extremes:
High Temperature
10.2°C at
13:36
Low Temperature
0.3°C at
3:10
Other
Extremes (Since March 2003)
Highest Shade Temperature
31.9°C
at 15.25 on 25th July 2019
(Previous highest was
30.7°C
at 15.51 on 9th August 2003)
Low Temperature
-11.0°C at 07:35 on 20th December 2010
Highest Daily Rainfall (Midnight
to Midnight)
77
mm (3.03 inches) on 10th August 2004
Highest Monthly Rainfall
287
mm (11.30 inches) in August 2004
Highest Daily Sunshine Hours
16.
36 Hours on 27th June 2018
(Previous highest was
16.
19 Hours on 16th June 2010)
Highest
Monthly Sunshine Hours
281.
87 Hours in July 2006
Highest Wind Speed Gust
88.08 mph
on 21st January 2012
Astronomical
Data
Sunrise
7:05
Sunset
17:33
Moonrise
7:58
Moonset
18:24
