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   Maulds Meaburn Weather

    Weather Conditions at Maulds Meaburn, Nr Appleby, in the county of Westmorland

                                                      

  20/11/24   22:31

(updated every 5 minutes 24 hours a day)

Station located at (approx)    54° 32' 18.25" N      -2° 34' 55.80" W        Elev.    602 Ft asl

A 'Standard' Climatological Observation site - using Met' Office supplied equipment supported with a Davis Vantage Pro2 - and reporting to the Met' Office via W.O.W.

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Current Conditions -
Temperature  -4.8 °C Dew Point  -6.9 °C Humidity  85  %
Wind  WNW  (289°) at   0.0 mph Beaufort   10-min. Wind 1.0 mph
Barometer 1009.0 mb Pressure Trend Falling Slowly Wind Chill -4.8 °C
Rain Rate 0.0 mm/hr Daily Rain 0.0 mm Storm Rain 1 0.0 mm
the 2 day Weatherlink archive          and the 2023 Weatherlink archive

 

Extremes
Temp (time)
Highest gust (time)
Barometer
Dew Point
Humidity
Heat Index
Wind Chill
Rainfall
Rain Rate
Today
High
Low
2.0 °C (14:35)
-7.7 °C ( 5:51)
17.0 mph (11:41)
1011.1 mb
1007.2 mb
-1.7 °C
-8.9 °C
93 %
71 %
1.7 °C
-9.4 °C
0.0 mm
0.0 mm/hr
This Month
High
Low
13.4 °C
-7.7 °C
25.0 mph
1042.2 mb
1000.9 mb
11.1 °C
-8.9 °C
96 %
71 %
13.3 °C
-9.4 °C
3.2 mm
5.6 mm/hr
This Year
High
Low
26.2 °C
-8.9°C
69.0 mph
1042.9 mb
971.3 mb
19.4 °C
-10.0 °C
97%
43%
26.7 °C
-9.4 °C
1297.6 mm
120.0 mm/hr

  1 - As used here, a "storm" begins when 5mm of rain has fallen in a 24-hour period, and continues until 24 hours pass without 5mm of rain.

  During snowfall events AWS rainfall readings will be effected by the timing of when the snow melts.

 

0900 - 0900 GMT Daily Standard Observations

Rainfall
Min' Temp
Max' Temp
Dry Bulb
Wet Bulb
Soil @ 1 ft
Soil @ 1 Meter
Grass Temp
Visibility
20th Nov
Day
Month
0.0 mm
3.3 mm
-7.6°c
2.1°c
-6.1°c
-6.4°c
6.5°c
10.0°c
-10.8°c
Excellent (9)

   Yesterday (19th)   - cloudy and cold.

           Today (20th)   - sharp frost overnight and so sharp that it is the lowest minimum for Nov' yet recorded at this site. Very cold and sunny.

           Mean Temp        1st-10th      9.25°c                    11th-20th     3.70°c                   21st-30th     -.--°c                           Current Mean     6.55°c                Average for November is:    6.09°c

 

Monthly Weather Summary

OCTOBER  -   wasn't great, but wasn't terrible. Unsettled at times with a few wet and windy days, but with high pressure occasional building and settling things down for a while. A cool first half included a couple of air frosts 13-14th, after which it became progressively milder, especially by night. Sunshine though wasn't too common.

(since 2009) it was the warmest since 2022 with six having been warmer and nine colder -- (Since 2007) it was the wettest since 2022 with eleven having been drier and six wetter - MSLP was +0.8 Mb above average -- rainfall 114.2% of the average for 2007-23 -- the temp' was 0.46°c above average (2009-23).

Rainfall totalled 144.8 mm    -  Mean Min' of 6.63°c  -  Mean Max' 13.60°c  -  with a highest maximum of 16.5°c (6th) and a lowest minimum of -1.1°c (14th).

There were the following 'Days of' - none at all -- With 39.0 mm the 16th was the month's wettest day -- the highest gust of wind was 64 Mph (20th) - the mean wind speed was 4.84 mph.

  Summary   - is now updated with the weather report for October.

  A summary and detail of the weather for 2023 can be read here   REVIEW OF 2023   and other summaries/articles are also available such as this: But it's meant to be Summer (Summer 2017)  

 

Local Historical Weather

Seathwaite (Borrowdale) - average rainfall for November (1845-2023) is 361.0 mm - the driest year was 1945 (31.8 mm) and the wettest 2009 (969.0 mm)

Shap - 1991-2020 averages for November are: rainfall 205.0 mm - mean minimum temperature 2.39°c, mean maximum 8.51°c - 8.1 air frosts - 17.7 Wet Days and mean wind speed of 8.33 Knots

Appleby - average rainfall for November (1856-2023) is 86.7 mm - the driest decade was the 1870's (71.1 mm), the wettest, 2000's (107.3 mm) - on two occasions (1945 and 1937) Nov' has had less than 10mm and twice it has had more than 200mm (which includes 2009, the second wettest month on record)

Maulds Meaburn - November - November is wet, on average the third wettest month of the year, but after five of the last six have notched up 100mm+ we really are due a drier one. The driest Nov' in my records had 51.3 mm which makes it the wettest, driest month in my records! Obviously 2009 still lives long in the memory, even though it was 'replaced' by Dec' 2015 as the wettest. The end of the month in 2010 was very cold and snowy and the fore-runner to 'that December'. But maybe this year we will get something drier, the first half is looking settled, but what will follow after? Curiously, in my records the 1st and 16-17th have never recorded an air frost.    -    The mean temperature as ranged from 3.83°c (2010) to 8.12°c (2011).

Averages 129.5 mm of rain    -    Air/Ground Frost on 7.2 + 13.9 days    -    Snow Fall + Lay on 1.4 + 0.4 days    -    Gale on 0.3 days    -    Wet Days (1.0mm=+ of rain) on 16.4 days

 

  Mr. W. Hoggarth of Shap (Copy Hill) sent the following entry to the 'British Rainfall Guides' regarding the November of 1885:-

  "The beginning showery; the middle cold and dry, the end very wet.'

          He also sent in the following comments regarding particular days of the month:     

5th   'Snow.'        26th    'Strong S.E. wind and heavy rain 1.05 In.'        28th    'Strong gale and heavy rain 1.01 In.'

 

'HISTORICAL EVENTS' (above) is a start in recording historical weather in our immediate locality  -  now includes the flood report: Summary and Analysis

The 'Historical Events' page now has a section on the history of flooding in Appleby - and now includes a full summary and analysis as that which was featured in the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald.

 

Folk Lore - November

"November take flail; let ships no more sail."

"Flowers in bloom late in autumn indicate a bad winter"

"As St. Catherine (25th) foul or fair, so will be the next February"

 

Sunrise:  7:53        Sunset: 16:01

Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous

 

LINKS TO OTHER WEATHER WEBSITES

Great Asby, Nr Appleby       Local site, making for interesting comparisons with Maulds Meaburn.

  Brampton Weather NE Cumbria  An authoritative site that includes the Cumbrian Weather report.     

  Visit Cumbria                Take a look at Maulds Meaburn and the surrounding area.            

  A summary of this stations data is sent to the Climatological Observers Link and to the Cumbria Weather Report and forms part of their monthly reports.  

 

Forecast:  Mostly cloudy and cooler. Precipitation possible within 12 hours, possibly heavy at times. Windy.

 

Four Day Weather Forecast and current Synoptic and Rainfall charts
 


   

  

 

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