I am fairly certain that the ‘north-south split‘ cliché started with Michael Fish, as much as I’m certain that John Kettley started the popularity of idiom ‘from the word go‘ one, still occasionally uttered today by …
The infamous north-south split in this weeks weather Read More »
The cold blob in the central North Atlantic has grown in size and intensified a little since July of last year, and the cooler waters have extended westward towards Ireland. In the meantime the waters around …
I did wonder why I had to make changes to one of my software applications and realised that it was because the UKMO had changed the map that they use to draw their climate data on, …
Displaying Shetland in a box on maps is now banned by law on official documents Read More »
It is one thing having a gust of gale force and a true gale. Stav obviously thinks the country is experiencing a true gale quite widely today, but he is wrong and it’s misleading. But apart …
Repeat after me – a gust of 34 knots or higher does not make a gale Read More »
The Met Office eventually did modify their yellow wind warning for strong wind which they originally had issued on Friday morning, but it took them till 0827 BST this morning to do it! That meant the …
Wendy not that windy as Met Office modify their warning Read More »
I thought I would expand the coverage of my chart of mean temperature anomalies to display anomalies right across the northern hemisphere this month (June 2020). It may have been very warm in June over parts …
The various models have got their knickers in a twist about how low Wendy will develop overnight as it runs eastward across Scotland. The latest consensus from four of the worlds NWP models is that it …
I hadn’t realise until I ran the analysis on the objective LWT data from the CRU just how cyclonic June 2020 had been. It’s the joint sixth most cyclonic June in LWT circulation types since 1871, …
There is an in interesting belt of low pressure that stretches from southern Greenland southeast for around 8,000 kilometres to the Gulf of Oman this June. The part of the belt that lies over the Atlantic …
The values of the maximum rainfall accumulations in their amended and shortened yellow warning for heavy rain look fairly reasonable, maybe totals were a little higher over the highest ground across Argyl, but they forgot to …
Another cold day for July across large parts of IONA, particularly in the wind and rain across the north and west. Summer, or should I say those few days warm days that we saw last week …
The latest NWP forecasts do show a strong potential for a spell of severe gales across the northern Scotland on Sunday morning. Let’s see if the UKMO sit this one out as they so often do …
Author: Grahame Madge 15:00 (UTC+1) on Thu 2 Jul 2020 As the planet warms, the intensity, frequency and duration of extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall is expected to increase. Corresponding decreases in cool …
More extreme weather events with planetary warming Read More »
The old occlusion (in all reality a cold front) that has been edging south for the last 36 hours or so has refused to die gracefully, and has deposited as much as 40 to 50 mm …
Yes, it was bit cooler than that across northern Scotland Chris, in fact it dropped down to just 0.3°C at Altnaharra with a ground frost there and Aboyne. Because Meteogroup persist in the BBC tradition of …
Something doesn’t quite add up here. The UKMO are being quite upbeat about the prospects for the rest of July in their long range forecast, but the midnight run of the ECMWF hi-res model in contrast …
Despite the midsummer heatwave, mean temperatures in June 2020 across IONA look to a have been generally within o.5°C and 1.5°C above the LTA. That ties in with the mean CET value of +1.3°C for the …
June 2020 was a bit like the Curate’s egg in that it was very wet in places whilst being closer to average elsewhere. The driest place seem to have been along the south coast of England …
A pretty dull and uninspiring June across inland parts as far as sunshine was concerned, although it was much sunnier generally across the south and around the coastal fringes. Some missing values or a dodgy sensor …
I have just been listening to Chris Fawkes the weathercaster on duty this lunchtime in the BBC News. He’s always loathed to say much about Scotland in his forecasts, and when he does he always seems …
It’s just not “feeling cool” in places, it’s just plain cold Read More »
Author: Met Office Press Office 16:00 (UTC+1) on Tue 30 Jun 2020 Towards the end of the century parts of the UK could see 40°C days every 3-4 years on average under a high emissions scenario. A …
I am still trying to puzzle out why the last week’s temperatures in Siberia provoked such a furore in the world’s social media channels, when much higher temperature anomalies across Asia and eastern Europe had been …
Results from my rainfall estimates from weather radar were a bit mixed over the last 30 hours. My estimate for Capel Curig was too high whilst the estimate for Keswick was on the low side. That’s …
I completely missed that Australia saw their coldest May nationally since 2011. Here’s what their Bureau of Meteorology had to say about it:- Australia in May 2020 In brief Nationally, May was cooler than average for …