5/6 May 2021 – Overnight snow
I believe that last nights snow which affected a large part of Scotland came from a relatively narrow band of precipitation that extended south …
Twin Peaks of global warming
I am fed up with waiting for HadCRUT to publish their global temperatures for February and March let alone April, so here is a …
Don’t panic! A relatively cool month does not mean that #climatechange has stopped!
I don’t know about you, but I find this mornings tweet from the WMO, reminding us that climate change hasn’t suddenly stopped just because …
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What’s this 15 cm of partly cloudy in my Garden?
The Met Office got caught out by an area of snow over higher ground that moved south late yesterday evening from northern Scotland. The …
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5 May 2021 – Wind chill & temperature anomalies
A thoroughly cold day across the country, particularly so if you factor in the wind chill, where in the north values are sub-zero. Temperatures …
April 2021 – Global temperatures
I thought that I would produce a mega map of global temperature anomalies for the month of April 2021. It’s quite apparent why the …
April 2021 – Pressure and circulation
April 2021 was a very unusual month as far as pressure and North Atlantic circulation went with a massive +14 hPa anomaly to the …
Snow in May
I don’t keep detailed weather records anymore, it just reminds me how short our life spans are, but I think I’m right in saying …
Global DIY temperatures continue to slide in April
In my DIY temperature series the global mean temperatures during April 2021 have continued to slide. I made the mean global temperature for the …
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Shockingly poor 42 day temperature forecast from the ECMWF for April
A shockingly poor 42 day long range forecast for 2M temperature anomalies across Europe for April from the ECMWF. They did have area of …
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Less that seven weeks before nights start drawing in!
It is a sobering fact but it’s less than seven weeks before the summer solstice and the nights start drawing in again! In this …
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Low Eugen – Winds
The highest gust from low Eugen was 76 mph at Capel Curig early yesterday afternoon, closely followed by the 74 mph at the Mumbles …
Low Eugen – precipitation accumulations
There wasn’t a yellow warning issued by the Met Office for heavy rain from low Eugen, but I think that there should have been, …
Tell it like it is
Smiling Carol Kirkwood said it wasn’t “particularly cold” across the country in her 8.15 am forecast on the BBC News channel. I think she …
3 May 2021 – Low Eugen
12 UTC The winds are starting to ramp up along western and southern coasts this lunchtime as low Eugen tracks east into Northern Ireland. …
How unusual is a 983 hPa low in May?
How unusual is a low of 983 hPa in May across IONA? Well looking at these extremes for a grid of pressure points that …
Hats off to the ECMWF
I was only shooting my mouth off the other day saying that the limit for NWP models might be no more than T+120, and …
Winter 2020/21 – North Atlantic Oscillation
The daily North Atlantic Oscillation index for the winter of 2020/21 show a long spells of negative values from Christmas until mid February, and …
April 2021 – Sixth most anticyclonic since 1871
April 2021 may well have become the sixth most anticyclonic (60%) since 1871 using the Objective Lamb Weather Type series from the CRU, but …
Surge in Antarctic Sea Ice continues
The surge in Antarctic sea ice that occurred in the last week of February has continued, and at the start of May the sea …
April showers overrun into May
I don’t think that I’ve ever seen a montage of weather radar images put together like this before, but my memory being as bad …
April 2021 – Weather Summary
Two brown, two blue and an orange anomaly charts for April indicate that it’s been very dry, rather cold and a very sunny month. …
Are things set to warm up?
The latest ECMWF model runs show another slightly deeper depression anchoring itself of southwest Ireland by the time we get to next weekend and …
Forecast track of low Eugen
I must say the ECMWF has never wavered in its forecast for Mondays low Eugen. It can’t be classed as explosive deepening by any …