xmetman is no more!
You may have noticed a distinct drop in the number of posts from me in the last month. That’s because I’ve decided to call …
Summer and Winter solstice temperature differences
There are a lot of stories circulating around at the moment about how similar maximum temperatures in today’s summer solstice are with those of …
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20-21 June 2021 – Overnight ground frost
A ground frost at three stations across the northeast of Scotland this morning to coincide with the summer solstice.
June 2021 – Latest rainfall figures
It seems that UK climate stats are all the vogue these days and everyone has done a latest June rainfall story so here’s mine. …
18 June 2021 – Quite a day
Since midnight rainfall estimates from weather radar suggest there has been around 60 to 70 mm of rain in the wettest places across Hampshire …
First nip of autumn
There was a definite first nip of autumn in the air again this morning in Ross-shire, with temperatures down to 1.7°C at Loch Glascarnoch …
17 June 2021 – High dewpoints
It is not too often that you see dewpoints in excess of 20°C in summer across the northwest of Europe, but there have been …
16-17 June 2021 – Overnight thunderstorms
A large thunderstorm tracked N’NE across Sussex and Kent into the North Sea with 46 mm of rain at Manston. Quite a sharp back …
16-17 June 2021 – A tropical night
A large range in overnight minima across NW Europe from 4°C in northern Scotland to no lower than 20°C – a tropical night – …
16 June 2021 – Hourly weather radar accumulations
Quite an eventful evening across the southeast with more storms to follow later in the night. In contrast there’s a lovely rosy red sunset …
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13-14 June 2021 – Maximum temperature difference
It was as much as 10.4°C colder at Machrihanish today than it was yesterday. It’s a shame that the cold front wasn’t just that …
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14 June 2021 – Todays weak cold front
The cold front that’s strung out across central England might be just a zone of cloud but it has still managed to drop surface …
climatereanalyzer.org
As you know I produce many climate maps and graphs from reanalysis data mainly using the 2M surface temperature and MSLP fields. I was …
A closer look at the 2020 Tropical Cyclone season in the Atlantic
The North Atlantic tropical cyclone track data for 2020 (hurdat2) has finally been released by the NHC. It was such a busy year that …
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10 June 2021 – Annular eclipse image
Rather surprisingly the low cloud did break at times here in Easter Ross this morning to allow some very warm sunshine through, and also …
Twelve Troughs
Things are hotting up down in EX1. Mr Trough is working himself into a frenzy in an attempt to break the record of more …
10 June 2021 – Annular Eclipse
As usual Northern Scotland has a very slim chance of seeing tomorrow’s annular eclipse – hell we’ll be doing well if it’s not raining.
The return of the westerlies?
The GFS is still pushing for a quicker and more abrupt end to this current very warm spell of weather than the ECMWF model …
2 June 1975 – The day snow stopped play
I was tidying up my old SYNOP archive the other day and came across charts for June 1975 and thought that I would take …
7 June 2021 – Thunderstorms across Eastern England
High lunchtime temperatures spark of some thunderstorms across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire this afternoon.
Trends in UK seasonal precipitation since 1862
Summers [JJA] since 1862 in the UK have become slightly drier (-0.1 mm per decade) in the linear trends of UK gridded series since …
4 June 2021 – Ground frost on Dartmoor
I couldn’t quite believe these pictures of a ground frost on Dartmoor yesterday morning at first and had to check the temperature at Exeter …
4 June 2021 – Today’s rain
Today’s rain has fallen in what is probably the driest region in the whole of the UK and IONA.Mixed results from estimates some too …