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NW3 Weather is a meteorological observation site located near Hampstead, in North London, UK.
The site was established with an automatic, server-linked personal weather station in July 2010 and runs continuously.
Live data is updated at least once a minute, graphs and other data every 5 minutes. More info can be found on the About page.

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Data recorded at 00:09:07 GMT
	Measure	Current - ? s ago	Max/Min	Rate	24hr mean
	Temperature	2.5 °C	2.6 °C at 00:01 2.5 °C at 00:06	-0.3 °C /hr -4.3 °C /24hr	6.3 °C
	Relative Humidity	73%	73% at 00:04 73% at 00:04	+3% /hr -1% /24hr	74%
	Dew Point	-1.8 °C	-1.7 °C at 00:01 -1.8 °C at 00:06	+0.3 °C /hr -4.3 °C /24hr	1.8 °C
	Pressure	995 hPa	995 hPa at 00:04 995 hPa at 00:04	-5 hPa /hr -24 hPa /24hr	1005 hPa
	Wind	9.2 mph WSW Gusting to 6.2 mph	Max Speed: 9.2 mph Max Gust: 13.8 mph	Max Hr Gust: 18.7 mph Bft: Moderate breeze (F4)	9.4 mph WSW (248°)
	Rainfall	0.0 mm	Max Rate: null Max Hourly: null	Rate: 0.0 mm/h Last 10 mins: 0.0 mm	3.7 mm (total)

Day Temp Range:
0.1 °C

Feels Like:
-2.4 °C (Daily Min: -2.4 °C)

10-min Av. Wind:
6.9 mph SSW

Hour Rain:
0.0 mm

Month Rain:
70.4 mm

Last Rain:
11 hours ago

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2014 Weather Report

2014 was the sixth year of records for this weather station, and the fourth complete year in its current location in nw3.
It was the wettest of these, with a 31% excess compared to the expected long-term climatic average. Five of the top-ten wettest days across all six years fell in 2014's Aug-Nov period alone, which also contains the overall wettest day, the 13th Oct 2014, with 41 mm. For the first time, more than half of days had some measurable rainfall, whilst January had just one complete dry day all month.

Despite this, 2014 was both the warmest and sunniest in my records. The mean temperature was 1.3 C above average (Across England the anomaly was similar, and moreover 2014 was the warmest year in 357 years of records). August was the only month to come in below average, while Jan-Apr all came at least two degrees above. For the first time, there was absolutely no snowfall, and the year had the fewest air frosts on record.

For the website, nw3weather saw its busiest year since launching in Sep 2010, with 75,000 visits (up from 63,000 in 2013), giving a mean figure of 206 per-day. The median was 188, since busy days (commonly very wet or windy days) skew the figure. The most in a single day was 600 on 14th Feb, a wet and extremely windy day (50 mph gusts). The fewest was 106 on 6th Sep, a quiet and overcast Saturday.
Looking ahead to 2015, this should see the completion of back-end website upgrades, with only minor UI and informational changes.

Summary of Data

Temperature: Mean 12.3 C (+1.3 C from the LTA). Absolute Min and Max: -1.4 C (30th Dec), and 31.2 C (18th Jul).
Rainfall: Total: 815.2 mm (+31%) across 185 days (51%) of recordable rain.
Highest daily (starting at midnight) total: 40.7 mm (13th Oct).
Wettest Month: 141.5 mm across 30 days (Jan). Driest: 22.9 mm (Mar); Least Rainy: 5 days (Sep).
Sunshine: Total: 1599 hrs (+9%) from a possible 4038.
Days with more than a minute of sunshine: 322 days (88%).
Winter Events: There were no days of falling snow or sleet (20 below the LTA), and 7 air frosts (-19).
Other Events: There were 2 days of hail, 14 with thunder, and 1 with fog at 09z.

These pages are useful for comparing all aspects of the weather across the years . If you notice anything else interesting about the weather data for 2014, please let me know, and I'll update this report to include it.

Updated: 10th Jan 2015

Latest Monthly Weather Report

December 2014

Temperature: Overall, the month was a little warmer than average, with a mean of 6.1 °C (+0.6 °C from the LTA).
The absolute low was -1.4 °C, and the highest 13.6 °C.
Rainfall: Came in somewhat drier than the long-term average, at 41.4 mm (-26%) across 17 days of recordable rain. The most rainfall recorded in a single day (starting at midnight) was 10.7 mm. The cumulative annual total for 2014 now stands at 815.4 mm (+31%) from 174 rain days.
Sunshine: A very sunny month, with 87 hrs (+81%) from a possible 219.
23 days had more than a minute of sunshine, the maximum being 7.2 hrs.
Winter Events: There were no days of falling snow or sleet (3 below the LTA), and 4 air frosts (-2).
no days of lying snow at 09z were observed (-1), with a max depth of 0 cm.
Other Events: There were no days of hail, 0 of thunder, 0 with fog at 09z. 2 days had >10 mm of rain, and 4 with gusts >30 mph.

All long-term climate averages are with respect to the period 1971-2000. View full report

This weather station has been recording data for 2188 days (1656 at NW3)