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| CURRENT CONDITIONS | EXTREMES and TOTALS since 0000 UTC | ||||||||||
| Maximum | Time | Minimum | Time | Total | |||||||
| UTC | UTC | ||||||||||
| Temperature and humidity | |||||||||||
| Air temperature: °C | 13.5 | 15.1 | 1549 | 5.0 | 0009 | ||||||
| Wet bulb temperature: °C | 11.2 | ||||||||||
| Dew point bulb temp.: °C | 8.9 | ||||||||||
| Vapour pressure: hPa | 11.4 | ||||||||||
| Note: The wet bulb, dew point and vapour pressure above are computed from air temperature and relative humidity | |||||||||||
| Relative humidity: % | 74 | 92 | 0013 | 55 | 1213 | ||||||
| Temperature change in 1 hour: degC | -0.4 | ||||||||||
| Wet bulb temperature: °C | 11.2 | 11.4 | 1730 | 4.5 | 0005 | ||||||
| Note: The above wet bulb temperature is measured using a probe and wick | |||||||||||
| Surface temperatures (°C) | |||||||||||
| Grass temperature | 11.3 | 21.3 | 1225 | 1.7 | 0010 | ||||||
| Concrete temperature | 12.8 | 20.9 | 1228 | 4.8 | 0315 | ||||||
| Bare soil temperature | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| 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 (°C) | |||||||||||
| 5 cm soil temperature: | 12.0 | 12.1 | 1514 | 10.1 | 0650 | ||||||
| 10 cm soil temperature: | 11.3 | 11.4 | 1701 | 10.1 | 0835 | ||||||
| 20 cm soil temperature: | 11.6 | 11.7 | 0004 | 10.8 | 0908 | ||||||
| 30 cm soil temperature: | 11.8 | 12.4 | 0001 | 11.6 | 0939 | ||||||
| 50 cm soil temperature: | 12.2 | 12.7 | 0004 | 12.2 | 1348 | ||||||
| 100 cm soil temperature: | 13.7 | 13.9 | 0001 | 13.7 | 1402 | ||||||
| Lowest cloud base (ceilometer measurement) | |||||||||||
| Lowest cloud base in past 5 minutes: metres | 3639 | ||||||||||
| Lowest cloud base in past 5 minutes: feet | 11938 | ||||||||||
| Sunshine and irradiance | |||||||||||
| Sunshine in past 5 minutes: min | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Sunshine since 0000 UTC: h | 6.7 | ||||||||||
| Total global solar irradiance: W/m2 | 0 | 453 | 1234 | ||||||||
| Global solar irrad. since 0000 UTC: MJ/m2 | 6.78 | ||||||||||
| Direct beam solar irradiance: W/m2 | 0 | n/a | |||||||||
| Diffuse solar irradiance: W/m2 | -1 | n/a | |||||||||
| Net irradiance: W/m2 | -8 | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| Ground heat flux density: W/m2 | -1 | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| Shortwave upwelling irradiance: W/m2 | 0 | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| Shortwave downwelling irradiance: W/m2 | -2 | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| Longwave upwelling irradiance: W/m2 | 365 | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| Longwave downwelling irradiance: W/m2 | 350 | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
| Pressure | |||||||||||
| Mean sea level pressure: hPa | 1030.2 | 1036.7 | 0010 | 1029.6 | 1505 | ||||||
| Pressure change in 1 hour: hPa | +0.4 | ||||||||||
| Pressure change in 3 hours: hPa | +0.5 | ||||||||||
| Wind | |||||||||||
| 10-metre wind direction: | 278 | ||||||||||
| 10-metre wind speed: m/s | 1.3 | ||||||||||
| Note: Wind speed and direction are 10-minute vector mean values | |||||||||||
| 10-metre maximum 3-sec wind gust: m/s | 2.4 | 8.9 | |||||||||
| 2-metre average wind speed since 0000 UTC: m/s | 1.6 | ||||||||||
| 10-metre average wind speed since 0000 UTC: m/s | 2.2 | ||||||||||
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