‘Floating ship’ photographed off Cornish coast
I noticed a tweet on Twitter about a ‘Floating ship photographed off Cornish coast’ and thought I would just have to include the story …
Thursday’s or should that be Wednesday’s low?
Instead of becoming more into line with each other at T+144 the GFS and the ECMWF models have come up with different solutions for …
Why do we make such little use of satellite imagery in TV forecasts?
Why do we so little use made of the latest satellite imagery in our TV weather forecasts instead of relying so heavily on NWP …
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Late frost as cloud clears
A textbook example of a late frost in the North of Scotland this morning with Loch Glascarnoch dropping to -6.5°C at 07 UTC as …
How to get rid of an inversion instantly
The comparatively high temperatures over the higher mountain tops across Scotland were swept away yesterday by colder air that advected down in the northeasterly …
Winter temperatures in UK since 1910
The meteorological winter of 2020-21 was nothing special temperature wise across the UK. At a quick glance it had similarities with the anomalies of …
One to keep an eye on
There is strong agreement for a deep low to cross the North of Scotland and an intense secondary low that will run quickly eastward …
Much warmer now cold front gone through
Counter intuitively it feels much warmer across our part of northeast Scotland after the passage of the cold front earlier this morning than it …
BBC temperature for London too high again
I don’t know which particular model Meteogroup and the BBC are using at the moment, but it’s gone a little awry as far as …
Feb 2021 – N Scotland driest, coldest and sunniest region
Regionally in the three major climate indicators the north of Scotland was the driest, coldest and sunniest place in the UK during February 2021.
Summer 2020-21 temperatures in Australia
It has been a remarkably cool summer in Australia compared to some of the more recent ones that have been dominated by droughts, bushfires …
Feb 2021 – mean temperature anomalies
In February 2021 mean temperatures were dominated by high anomalies across the Arctic and northeast Canada (>+7°C), and intense cold conditions across the northwest …
Feb 2021 – DIY Global temperatures
Global temperatures in my DIY temperature series I construct from six hourly reanalysis .995 sigma air temperature data from NOAA continue the fall that …
2 Mar 2021 – Maximum temperatures
It didn’t quite make the promised 13°C in London but it did make it it in Snowdonia in Wales.
Feb 2021 – Weekly circulation patterns
I have split February into weekly mean pressure charts to try and capture a better picture of the cold anticyclonic easterly nature of the …
Not on your Nelly
Louise Lear was getting quite carried away with herself about just how warm it was going to get in London, but totally forgetting about …
Stubborn Moray Firth cloud refuses to budge
A strange area of low cloud in the inner Moray Firth today refuses to budge today. It’s quite detached from the real haar like …
High temperatures & low dewpoints above the inversion again on mountain tops
Someone must have thought the high temperatures from the SIESAWS observations on Cairngorm were spurious today because the UKMO have pulled them from their …
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2 Mar 2021 – low cloud
Just a quick look at this morning’s low cloud that has invaded from the North Sea overnight in the visible satellite images. The height …
A touch of sour grapes
I have just been reading the Winter and February climate statistics article from the UKMO and I found one interesting comment the UKMO made …
Cairngorm still above the inversion
What you would give for a Shanwell ascent to get an idea of the lower boundary layer of the atmosphere in the last day …
1-2 Mar 2021 – overnight min of -6.6°C at Altnharra
As well as a moderate frost with a minimum of -6.6°C at Altnaharra last night, there was also a range of 17.3°C from yesterday …
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1 Mar 2021 – anomalies, inversions and ship trails
The low stratus and haar feeding in the easterly flow from the North Sea into eastern England has certainly produced some low temperatures and …
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16.7°C on Cairngorm
Another lovely crystal clear sunny day across Easter Ross and you can just make out Loch Ussie and the Cat’s back from the EODIS …