June 2020 – global temperatures
My own estimated global temperatures are still on the slide and have been since the 25th of February. I’ll be the first to admit that my findings aren’t supported at all by six out of the …
Cold night in Sutherland
There was a slight frost at both Altnaharra and Kinbrace in Sutherland last night, not bad going for the 7th of July and the height of summer, but with sub 546 dam 1000-500 hPa partial thicknesses …
Latest England Wales rainfall figures
All the talk of a drought recently seem to have evaporated at least for the moment after the thundery rain of last month pepped up the figures. Talk of a drought in what has been a …
June 2020 – monthly weather summary
Here are the anomalies for the three basic weather elements in June 2020 using the new updated map of the UK with Shetland no longer in a box. Rather surprisingly, Scotland had the highest mean temperature …
The infamous north-south split in this weeks weather
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 …
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Cold blob extends and intensifies
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 …
Displaying Shetland in a box on maps is now banned by law on official documents
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, …
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Repeat after me – a gust of 34 knots or higher does not make a gale
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 …
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Wendy not that windy as Met Office modify their warning
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 …
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June 2020 – northern hemisphere temperature
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 …
Models back off with Wendy
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 …
Sixth most cyclonic June since 1871
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, …
June 2020 – circulation
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 …
They forgot about Snowdonia again!
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
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 …
Strong wind warning for Sunday?
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 …
More extreme weather events with planetary warming
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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Old front refuses to die
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 …
You could say that
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
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 …
June 2020 – temperature
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 – precipitation
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 …
June 2020 – sunshine
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 …
It’s just not “feeling cool” in places, it’s just plain cold
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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