Other than a slither of blue to the extreme southeast,
the sky is cloaked in rather bland medium level cloud,
lacking the dark bases and tall turrets seen pre-0900Z.
Outbreaks of mainly slight rain this morning with a short
moderate burst around 0630Z, yielding just 0.6mm.
Fog patches to our northwest lifted into Stratus by
0830Z but the mist remains.  Wind all over the shop
this morning but now settling to a northwesterly point.
Muggy.  Current conditions:

SYNOP 31/1150Z
03/// 11345 73104 10179 20169 40095 56010 69961
 72164 8257/ 333 81706 85359 87362=

METAR
EG// 311150Z 31004KT 4500 BR FEW006 BKN090
 BKN120 18/17 Q//// GRN=

Brief details:
wind... NW, force 2.
visibility... 4500m.
weather... cloudy and misty (last raindrops 1055Z).
dry bulb... +17.9C.
dewpoint... +16.9C.
RH... 94%.
rainfall last hour... trace.
rainfall since 0600Z... 0.6mm.

beaufort letters (1050-1150Z)... cirom,cm.

Nigel  (Romsey, Hampshire)

Fascinating but not spectacular weather for a while this
afternoon.  Near day darkness around 1420Z brought
the onset of... moderate drizzle!  The vis plummeted to
just above fog limits.  Out of a wodge of low Stratus,
these very fine water droplets were definitely blowing
from the northwest, immediately followed by a 2-minute
downpour of very large raindrops from the south, due
to embedded convection I would guess (probably the
real reason for the near day darkness).
--------------------------------------------------------
SYNOP 31/1150Z
03/// 11345 73104 10179 20169 40095 56010 69961
 72164 8257/ 333 81706 85359 87362=
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SYNOP 31/1750Z
03/// 11462 72710 10162 20147 40100 52010 60052
 72165 875// 333 10199 82710 85625 87650=

METAR
EG// 311750Z 27010KT 9999 FEW010 BKN025
 BKN050 16/15 Q//// RERA BLU=

Brief details:
wind... W, force 3.
visibility... 12km.
weather... cloudy (last raindrops 1700Z).
dry bulb... +16.2C.
dewpoint... +14.7C.
RH... 91%.
max temp today... +19.9C.
rainfall last hour... 0.2mm.
rainfall since 0600Z... 5.0mm.

beaufort letters (1650-1750Z)... cr,cro,c.

Nigel  (Romsey, Hampshire)
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