Major Atantic Low due to hit British Isles on Monday 8th Nov

[RayProudfoot]

Looks like a false dawn earlier. Pressure fell to 966.85Hpa at 16:24. Cumulus uses 2 decimal places for pressure but Davis only outputs it to one.

[steve]

Cumulus uses 2 decimal places for pressure but Davis only outputs it to one.

Davis say the station measures pressure (in inHg) to a resolution of 3 decimal places, so I convert that to 2 decimal places for hPa.

[RayProudfoot]

Cumulus uses 2 decimal places for pressure but Davis only outputs it to one.

Davis say the station measures pressure (in inHg) to a resolution of 3 decimal places, so I convert that to 2 decimal places for hPa.

Strange that they only display it on the console to one place then. I suppose resolution is not the same as accuracy so one decimal place in Cumulus would probably suffice but I'm not complaining, only observing.

[steve]

Strange that they only display it on the console to one place then.

That's all the console is capable of.

one decimal place in Cumulus would probably suffice but I'm not complaining

That's good, because I really don't want to go through the argument again (in reverse) that I had when I resisted making this change in the first place. I've already decided that C2 will turn control of the number of decimal places (for all data, for all stations) completely over to the user, so people can do whatever they want, whether it makes sense or not

[RayProudfoot]

I've already decided that C2 will turn control of the number of decimal places (for all data, for all stations) completely over to the user, so people can do whatever they want, whether it makes sense or not

It makes sense.

[hungerdunger]

I recorded a record of 961.3 at 4.00pm today, which appears to be pretty much in line with the nearest "proper" weather station at Pembrey Sands. OK, so I only have records for two years, but this beat my previous low by a full 10Mb.

Currently it's 962.1 and rising slowly.

[sjukmidlands]

Now that pressure is slowly rising, my low was recorded as 961.6mb at 14:11 today which beat my previous low by more than 14mb.

My total daily rain record was also broken - currently at 21.2mm and still raining lightly outside.

[sjukmidlands]

... and now, if we hadn't had that record breaker the other day THIS low would have broken records too! 973.7 and still falling...

And it's a lot more windy than the other day.

[RayProudfoot]

And my previous lowest would also have been broken. The winds have been something of a disappointment today. Highest gust was 'only' 31mph at 05:54GMT - 11mph below my record. Conditions are worse further north but so far we seem to have got off quite light here.

[Gina]

We've had gusts over 40mph here today and it's forecast to get a lot worse tonight!

[daj]

I had an all time pressure low of 956.3 mb today at 7pm. I compared it to the UK Met office observation 15 miles away from me and I was 2mb out. Not bad accuracy I think

[RayProudfoot]

I've just had the highest gust of 2010 so far - 40mph. 2mph behind my all-time high of 42mph in October 2009.

With several more hours of gale force winds forecast it's possible that might be breached tonight. Interesting week meteorologically. What would I give for a record high November temp!