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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 | 6.4 | 10.1 | 1330 | 1.5 | 0808 | ||||||
| Wet bulb temperature: ºC | 5.6 | ||||||||||
| Dew point bulb temp.: ºC | 4.5 | ||||||||||
| Vapour pressure: hPa | 8.4 | ||||||||||
| Note: The wet bulb, dew point and vapour pressure above are computed from air temperature and relative humidity | |||||||||||
| Relative humidity: % | 88 | 90 | 0814 | 63 | 1335 | ||||||
| Temperature change in 1 hour: degC | -0.1 | ||||||||||
| Wet bulb temperature: ºC | 5.5 | 6.9 | 1330 | 0.9 | 0805 | ||||||
| Note: The above wet bulb temperature is measured using a probe and wick | |||||||||||
| Surface temperatures (ºC) | |||||||||||
| Grass temperature | 4.0 | 20.7 | 1330 | -2.9 | 0745 | ||||||
| Concrete temperature | 4.3 | 15.5 | 1330 | -1.1 | 0744 | ||||||
| Bare soil temperature | 3.7 | 10.1 | 1329 | -0.1 | 0714 | ||||||
| Precipitation (mm) | |||||||||||
| Rainfall in past 5 minutes: | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Rainfall in past hour: | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Rainfall in past 3 hours: | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Rainfall in past 6 hours: | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Rainfall since 0000 UTC: | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Soil temperatures under grass (ºC) | |||||||||||
| 5 cm soil temperature: | 5.6 | 5.9 | 1529 | 4.3 | 0844 | ||||||
| 10 cm soil temperature: | 5.5 | 5.5 | 1625 | 4.7 | 0918 | ||||||
| 20 cm soil temperature: | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| 30 cm soil temperature: | 5.7 | 6.1 | 0003 | 5.5 | 1120 | ||||||
| 50 cm soil temperature: | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| 100 cm soil temperature: | 7.4 | 7.5 | 0004 | 7.4 | 1330 | ||||||
| Lowest cloud base (ceilometer measurement) | |||||||||||
| Lowest cloud base in past 5 minutes: metres | None detected | ||||||||||
| Lowest cloud base in past 5 minutes: feet | None detected | ||||||||||
| Visibility and present weather (BIRAL SWS-250) | |||||||||||
| Visibility: metres | n/a | ||||||||||
| Present weather | n/a | ||||||||||
| Sunshine and irradiance | |||||||||||
| Sunshine in past 5 minutes: min | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Sunshine since 0000 UTC: h | 5.7 | ||||||||||
| Total global solar irradiance: W/m2 | -3 | 453 | 1238 | ||||||||
| Global solar irrad. since 0000 UTC: MJ/m2 | 5.24 | ||||||||||
| Direct beam solar irradiance: W/m2 | 0 | 705 | 1151 | ||||||||
| Diffuse solar irradiance: W/m2 | -3 | 240 | 1254 | ||||||||
| Net irradiance: W/m2 | -55 | 285 | 1238 | -83 | 0443 | ||||||
| Ground heat flux density: W/m2 | -3 | 9 | 1404 | -11 | 0000 | ||||||
| Shortwave upwelling irradiance: W/m2 | 0 | 113 | 1238 | -2 | 0037 | ||||||
| Shortwave downwelling irradiance: W/m2 | -5 | 446 | 1238 | -7 | 0001 | ||||||
| Longwave upwelling irradiance: W/m2 | 329 | 356 | 1335 | 304 | 0744 | ||||||
| Longwave downwelling irradiance: W/m2 | 275 | 340 | 1522 | 247 | 0734 | ||||||
| Pressure | |||||||||||
| Mean sea level pressure: hPa | 1011.4 | 1011.5 | 1245 | 1003.8 | 0001 | ||||||
| Pressure change in 1 hour: hPa | +0.1 | ||||||||||
| Pressure change in 3 hours: hPa | +0.5 | ||||||||||
| Wind | |||||||||||
| 10-metre wind direction: | 219 | ||||||||||
| 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 | 3.9 | 9.2 | |||||||||
| 2-metre average wind speed since 0000 UTC: m/s | 2.3 | ||||||||||
| 10-metre average wind speed since 0000 UTC: m/s | 3.1 | ||||||||||
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