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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Maximum temperatures were over 9°C lower than yesterdays across the north and maximum temperature anomalies were generally between -2°C and -6°C below the LTA for the day, this combined with the wind and rain in the …
I notice that the yellow warning for heavy rain has been updated by the Met Office to cover the north and west of Scotland. Wise move, as it’s already been bucketing down here in the strath …
I was fearing the worst when I looked at the NWP for this weekend for the North of Scotland, but at least we have so far escaped the worst of it for today, with nothing much …
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Some places across the UK scraped four days out of this short lived ‘heatwave’ while many others never quite made it.
Whatever happened to the terms sultry and close as a description of weather when it was oppressively warm and humid? All you seem to get from the current crop of weathercasters is how humid it is …
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Just for a change the focus of the heaviest rain in the next ten days, looks likely to be across the southwest of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northwest England, thats if this ECMWF forecast proved to …
A terrific collection of cumulonimbus clouds scattered across the continent and edging N’NW into blighty at the moment.
The BBC are reporting on the possibility of record UV levels today across IONA. I can never quite understand why the exact UV level isn’t used by the BBC Meteogroup in their TV forecasts, and why …
