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 xx.... Weather Forecast for Buxton & The Peak District:  ...
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Tuesday Evening and Night: Well, The Peak District missed most of the patchy showers this afternoon - there were some heavy showers nearby! - still a chance of further showers through early evening - then showers clearing to a mainly dry late evening and nighttime with clear periods - some mist patches forming in places - light winds - Minimum Air Temperature 5 °C.
Wednesday:
Wednesday: bright periods and after a mainly dry start patchy showers arriving, some could possibly be heavy - any showers mainly clearing through the afternoon - fairly light westerly winds - Maximum Air Temperature 14 °C.
Wednesday Evening and Night: a mainly dry evening and nighttime with bright and then clear periods - light winds - under clear skies and with light winds, there is a possibility of a ground frost in places - Minimum Air Temperature 3 °C.
Thursday:
Thursday: a more cloudy day - after a mainly dry start, showers arriving - there may be some limited brighter periods too later - quite lively south westerly winds - Maximum Air Temperature 13 °C
Thursday Evening and Night: showers through the evening and nighttime - lively south westerly winds - a more mild night - Minimum Air Temperature 7 °C.
Outlook For Friday to Sunday:
Friday: showers, some could be heavy, and some limited brighter periods - quite lively south westerly winds - Maximum Air Temperature 12 °C. Saturday: showers and some limited brighter periods - moderate westerly winds - Maximum Air Temperature 11 °C. Sunday: showers and some limited brighter periods - moderate south westerly winds - Maximum Air Temperature 11 °C.  ......................................................
 As one of you has said to me today in an email – “are we stuck in this rut of changeable weather with an endless stream of cool weather, showers, persistent rain, thunderstorms and hail?” (we just missed the worst of the heavy rain yesterday, Sunday afternoon which caused floods in a wide area from Sheffield northwards!.
What makes this all a little disappointing is that May is supposed to be a fairly dry month of the year, so what is going wrong with the weather?
One big problem sits over Greenland, where there is a large, powerful and stubborn block of high pressure – this is diverting the jet stream south across the UK and sending the changeable weather over the UK. Already the rainfall figures for the first half of the month over England and Wales are near the average for the whole of May. In Buxton we have had nearly 150mm (nearly 6 inches) of rain – that is heading (If this carries on) to nearly double our Buxton average!
The drought of April now seems like a distant memory!
Looking through The Met Office Slopes Weather Station records, our wettest May since our records started in 1860 was 1967, when we had 186mm of rain – against a national average of 141mm.
So my correspondent goes on to ask, “does a wet May herald a dreadful summer?” Maybe we can take heart because May 1967 was followed by a fairly warm July and August. And another washout in May 2006 was followed by a scorching hot and sunny July. May 2007 was another damp squib, with both May bank holidays washed out. That summer was fairly dire, however, with widespread flooding in July! ......We will see!!.......
...Photographs - delighted to receive your photographs (please send to Michael - email mh@22mh.com) to display on this site - anything about this lovely area we live in - which will be of interest to viewers of buxtonweather.co.uk - I will always credit the sender - (and I may take the liberty of adding some local information, and local history!). Photos relating to our weather, local events, our wonderful Peak District scenery, local animals and birds, love of the great outdoors - or what have you!! I may delay posting photos, through extreme weather events - will save them for once things calm down again! Please click on a photo to see the full size versions of all the photos - then just click the back arrow at the top left, to come back to here:
 
 AND I have had requests to see photos which have been removed - so from April 1st 2019, I have started an archive of many of the previously shown photographs CLICK HERE to see those.
Like to see recent "SNOW" Photos  CLICK HERE

 Sorry!! - although some of our bird boxes have gained some nesting material over the last few days, none seem to becoming a nest - if things change, will place a notice and link here straight away - in the meantime, as a consolation, we have noticed today that a pigeon has nested in a tree at the front of our house - and has one chick hatched, and one egg!! - live camera installed today!- CLICK HERE (Ignore the wording on the page - just using the Blue Tit Page temporarily) - It is interesting to note that the pigeon does not seem to leave the nest for food very often  - but unlike blue tit chicks who each need an incredible 100 grubs a day, baby pigeons feed on "crop milk" produced by female and male pigeons, for the first week or so! ("Crop Milk" is a gloopy milky nutrition produced in the bird's crop, by male and female birds to feed chicks) It also seems that the female pigeon sits on the nest from evening to the morning and the male does the day shift!
I have put the bird feeder camera back online - you likely have lots of birds of your own - but if you want to watch birds at a feeder, in a tree in our garden, CLICK HERE!
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Met Office - Longer Range Forecast, for the entire UK   ©Met Office.:
........... Sunday 23 May - Tuesday 1 Jun
Unsettled weather continues through the start of the period, with widespread showers. Persistent rain is also possible, turning heavy locally and moving eastwards through the UK, particularly on Sunday. As next week progresses there is a chance of more settled conditions to gradually become established. Rain and showers are likely to clear away to the east, leaving drier and less windy conditions behind by the end of the week. Temperatures look likely to remain on the cool side, though feeling pleasant in the sunshine. Night temperatures could become chilly, with late season frost in prone spots a possibility. As we move into the following week, things become more uncertain, but indications suggest a continuation of drier weather with the possibility of temperatures starting to increase slightly.
Tuesday 1 Jun - Tuesday 15 Jun
Confidence is low for this period, which is usual during spring and early summer. Current expectations is that conditions will be predominantly dry, especially across the south and east. Less settled interludes are still possible, however, especially in the northwest. There are indications that temperatures will likely start recovering, moving more towards typical temperatures for this time of year.  ..................................

As well as my own weather station in Harpur Hill in Buxton, at www.buxtonweather.co.uk I am proud to be a member of the Team of Volunteers, manning the Met Office Climatological Station, on the Slopes, near the Crescent in Buxton - would you like to know more about that weather station? - what it does - and its incredible 150+ years history? - If so please CLICK HERE ----------------

  
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Weather Links

  See an almost live (updated every 30 seconds) image over Buxton Rooftops looking North towards Brown Edge - Height 340 Mts.
 Please note that this image will be tilted down and left, to show more of the road conditions, in snowy periods

  Press here for a Live Video Webcam, on the A537 Cat & Fiddle Road

Press here for a Live Video Webcam, on the A515 Ashbourne Road

Temperature Converter.
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Click on the icon below to see the latest RAIN ALARM - Radar picture (This link does not work for Smartphone's - only laptops and desktops)

A LIVE WEBCAM on the A53 Leek Road, at the famous Winking Man Pub   CLICK HERE!


Like to see the weather at The Cat & Fiddle Pub (On the A537 Macclesfield  Road) Height 518 Mts - CLICK HERE!

DCC Camera just near The Cat & Fiddle Pub (On the A537 Macclesfield  Road) Height 518 Mts - CLICK HERE!


 DCC Camera A515 Ashbourne Road near Hurdlow - CLICK HERE!


 DCC Camera A623 at Tideswell Crossroads - CLICK HERE


Like to see the weather at Flash Bar Stores Quarnford, near The Travellers Rest Pub, (On the A53 Leek Road) Height 469 Mts- CLICK HERE:!


A LIVE WEBCAM at Electronic Security Installations Ltd, on Bingswood Trading Estate in Whaley Bridge - overlooking the River Goyt
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Click below to a webcam at the HSL site, above Harpur Hill, Buxton - Location SK055705 - Height 390 Mts (Updated every 30 minutes) - CLICK HERE:!



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 Conditions At:
1:07 on 19/5/21

 

Outside, Shade Temperature

6.4

°C

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Dew Point  3.9°C
Humidity  84%
Barometer (corrected to sea level)  1014mB
 Rate 0.17mB/hr
 Wind Figures:
Wind Speed  2mph
Wind Direction  NNW
Wind Chill  (How the temperature actually "feels")  6.2 °C
Wind Currently Gusting  To  5mph
Peak Wind Gust Today  13mph at 0:00
 Rainfall Figures:
Rainfall Today (Since Midnight)  0.0 mm 
Rainfall in the last hour  0.0 mm 
Total Rainfall in May  150.2 mm 
Total Rainfall in April  17.0 mm (0.67 inches)
Total Rainfall in March  143.0 mm (5.63 inches)
Total Rainfall in February 101.2 mm (3.99 inches)
Total Rainfall in January 295.2 mm (11.62 inches)
Total Rainfall in December  204.2 mm (8.04 inches)
Total Rainfall in November  130. 00 mm (5.11 inches)
Total Rainfall in October 203. 50 mm (8.01 inches)
Total Rainfall in September 53. 50 mm (2.11 inches)
Total Rainfall in August  154 . 20 mm (6.07 inches)
Total Rainfall in July 106 . 10 mm (4.18 inches)
Total Rainfall in June  116 . 00 mm (4.57 inches)
Total Rainfall in May 18 . 80 mm (0.74 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2020 1531.86 mm (60.31 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2019 1424.2 mm (56.07 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2018 1038.8 mm (40.90 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2017 1250.4 mm (49.23 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2016 1055.2 mm (41.54 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2015  1191.20 mm (46.90 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2014 (For earlier figures see the link top left)  1245.60 mm (49.04 inches)
Sunshine Figures: 
Sunshine hours on Tuesday   (Sunrise to Sunset) (Updated after Sunset)  5 . 50 Hours
Sun Hours in May  63 . 84 Hours
Sun Hours in April 208. 82 Hours
Sun Hours in March 91 . 32 Hours
Sun Hours in February 71 . 03 Hours
Sun Hours in January  28. 17 Hours
Sun Hours in December  25. 65 Hours
Sun Hours in November  36 . 56 Hours
Sun Hours in October 49 . 04 Hours
Sun Hours in September 152 . 91 Hours
Sun Hours in August 127 . 39  Hours
Sun Hours in July  99 . 50   Hours
Sun Hours in June  154 . 68   Hours
Sun Hours in May 248 . 12 Hours
Sun Hours in 2020 1330.53 Hours
Sun Hours in 2019 1316.47 Hours
Sun Hours in 2018 1431.27 Hours
Sun Hours in 2017 1096 . 00 Hours
Sun Hours in 2016 1219 . 59 Hours
Sun Hours in 2015 1239 . 88  Hours
Sun Hours in 2014(For earlier figures see the link top left)  1226 . 69  Hours
Monthly Average Temperatures:
Average Temp in April 5 . 75 °C
Average Temp in March 5 . 73 °C
Average Temp in February 3 . 26 °C
Average Temp in January 1 . 76 °C
Average Temp in December 3 . 52 °C
Average Temp in November 7 . 02 °C
Average Temp in October 8 . 42 °C
Average Temp in September 12 . 27 °C
Average Temp in August 15 . 17 °C
Average Temp in July 13 . 46 °C
Average Temp in June 13 . 45 °C
Average Temp in May 11 . 22 °C
Average Temp in April 8 . 91 °C
Average Temp in March 4 . 76 °C
Average Temp in February 4 . 10 °C
Average Temp in 2020  8. 93 °C
Average Temp in 2019  8. 65 °C
Average Temp in 2018  8. 87 °C
Average Temp in 2017  9. 60 °C
Average Temp in 2016  8. 95 °C
Average Temp in 2015  8. 54 °C
Average Temp in 2014 (For earlier figures see the link top left)  9. 24 °C
Today's Temperature Extremes:
High Temperature  7.4°C at 0:00
Low Temperature  6.4°C at 1:07
Other Extremes (Since March 2003) 
Highest Shade  Temperature  31.9°C at 15.25 on 25th July 2019
(Previous highest was 30.7°C at 15.51 on 9th August  2003)
Low Temperature  -11.0°C at 07:35 on 20th December 2010
Highest Daily Rainfall (Midnight to Midnight)  77 mm (3.03 inches) on 10th August 2004
Highest Monthly Rainfall   308 mm (12.13 inches) in February 2020
(Previous highest was 287mm (11.30 inches in August 2004)
Highest Daily Sunshine Hours   16. 36 Hours on 27th June 2018
(Previous highest was  16. 19 Hours on 16th June 2010)
Highest Monthly Sunshine Hours   281. 87 Hours in  July 2006
Highest Wind Speed Gust   88.08 mph on 21st January 2012
Astronomical Data
Sunrise 5:01
Sunset 21:06

Moon Phase Indicator Below - Click on the icon for an explanation, and details of the moon's phases, and a calculator of the moon's phase on any day in history - or in the future!

Moonrise 11:27                                                
Moonset 2:47                                   

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