Storm Barry rainfall predictions wrong – is global heating to blame?
I wonder if Barry didn’t produce as much rain as was predicted because of poor NWP modelling or a failure in global heating to do it’s thing?
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Arctic sea ice at record low levels
Arctic sea ice extent is at record low levels at the moment, but will be able to manage the sharp plunge in sea extent levels that 2012 managed at the start of August?
The curate’s egg
Remarkably none of the torrential rain across northeast Scotland was thundery in nature, despite there being a yellow warning in force for thunderstorms.
The weeks of our lives
A heatmap of mean temperature anomalies in central England for the last 3,615 weeks.
Rest in peace Gravesend-Broadness
I’m sorry for this late peice of sad news – but I’ve only just heard about the demise of the much loved AWS at Gravesend-Broadness.
Circulation and temperatures in June 2019
The heatwave over parts of France may have caught all the headlines but the centre of the warmth in June lay much further east in Poland and Ukraine.
Quote of the day – Peter Stott
A similarly extreme heatwave 100 years ago would have been 4°C cooler – but would it still have been a heatwave?
June 2019 fifth most cyclonic since 1871
June 2019 was the fifth most cyclonic since 1871
A perfect rain shadow
It’s not often that you can claim to be sitting in a rain shadow like we are at the moment
Extreme climate event attribution
Are the ‘extreme climate event attribution’ brigade the new ‘thought police’?
Hail storm in Guadalajara
How can nearly a metre and a half of hail fall on the city of Guadalajara?
June temperatures in central England little changed since 1659
June temperatures in central England show no overall change in the last 360 years
