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| CURRENT CONDITIONS | EXTREMES and TOTALS since 0000 UTC | ||||||||||
| Maximum | Time | Minimum | Time | Total | |||||||
| UTC | UTC | ||||||||||
| Temperature and humidity | |||||||||||
| Air temperature: ºC | 5.7 | 8.2 | 0007 | 5.4 | 0315 | ||||||
| Wet bulb temperature: ºC | 5.3 | ||||||||||
| Dew point bulb temp.: ºC | 4.8 | ||||||||||
| Vapour pressure: hPa | 8.6 | ||||||||||
| Note: The wet bulb, dew point and vapour pressure above are computed from air temperature and relative humidity | |||||||||||
| Relative humidity: % | 94 | 96 | 0440 | 54 | 0007 | ||||||
| Temperature change in 1 hour: degC | +0.1 | ||||||||||
| Wet bulb temperature: ºC | 5.4 | 6.0 | 0020 | 5.2 | 0214 | ||||||
| Note: The above wet bulb temperature is measured using a probe and wick | |||||||||||
| Surface temperatures (ºC) | |||||||||||
| Grass temperature | 8.0 | 8.0 | 0610 | 6.3 | 0309 | ||||||
| Concrete temperature | 7.7 | 9.0 | 0010 | 7.3 | 0431 | ||||||
| Bare soil temperature | 7.1 | 7.2 | 0010 | 6.2 | 0159 | ||||||
| Precipitation (mm) | |||||||||||
| Rainfall in past 5 minutes: | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Rainfall in past hour: | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Rainfall in past 3 hours: | 0.4 | ||||||||||
| Rainfall in past 6 hours: | 2.2 | ||||||||||
| Rainfall since 0000 UTC: | 2.2 | ||||||||||
| Soil temperatures under grass (ºC) | |||||||||||
| 5 cm soil temperature: | 10.8 | 11.3 | 0001 | 10.8 | 0449 | ||||||
| 10 cm soil temperature: | 10.7 | 11.2 | 0002 | 10.7 | 0600 | ||||||
| 20 cm soil temperature: | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| 30 cm soil temperature: | 10.7 | 10.8 | 0044 | 10.7 | 0004 | ||||||
| 50 cm soil temperature: | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| 100 cm soil temperature: | 10.6 | 10.6 | 0005 | 10.6 | 0001 | ||||||
| Lowest cloud base (ceilometer measurement) | |||||||||||
| Lowest cloud base in past 5 minutes: metres | 329 | ||||||||||
| Lowest cloud base in past 5 minutes: feet | 1079 | ||||||||||
| Visibility and present weather (BIRAL SWS-250) | |||||||||||
| Visibility: metres | 19762 | ||||||||||
| Present weather | Drizzle in last hour | ||||||||||
| Sunshine and irradiance | |||||||||||
| Sunshine in past 5 minutes: min | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Sunshine since 0000 UTC: h | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Total global solar irradiance: W/m2 | 54 | 56 | 0609 | ||||||||
| Global solar irrad. since 0000 UTC: MJ/m2 | 0.09 | ||||||||||
| Direct beam solar irradiance: W/m2 | -1 | n/a | |||||||||
| Diffuse solar irradiance: W/m2 | 55 | n/a | |||||||||
| Net irradiance: W/m2 | 10 | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| Ground heat flux density: W/m2 | -9 | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| Shortwave upwelling irradiance: W/m2 | 12 | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| Shortwave downwelling irradiance: W/m2 | 53 | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| Longwave upwelling irradiance: W/m2 | 340 | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| Longwave downwelling irradiance: W/m2 | 337 | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| Pressure | |||||||||||
| Mean sea level pressure: hPa | 1003.0 | 1003.9 | 0001 | 1002.7 | 0435 | ||||||
| Pressure change in 1 hour: hPa | +0.2 | ||||||||||
| Pressure change in 3 hours: hPa | -0.2 | ||||||||||
| Wind | |||||||||||
| 10-metre wind direction: | 073 | ||||||||||
| 10-metre wind speed: m/s | 2.7 | ||||||||||
| Note: Wind speed and direction are 10-minute vector mean values | |||||||||||
| 10-metre maximum 3-sec wind gust: m/s | 6.3 | 6.9 | |||||||||
| 2-metre average wind speed since 0000 UTC: m/s | 1.7 | ||||||||||
| 10-metre average wind speed since 0000 UTC: m/s | 2.4 | ||||||||||
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