It never fails to astound me how heatwaves and higher than average temperatures always seem to garner much more attention in social media than colder than average temperatures ever do in summer. Take for example the …
A cool July across most of the North Atlantic and northwest Europe come to that. Above average temperatures seem to have been pushed back to the continents of Africa, central Asia and North America. It may …
July 2020 – North Atlantic mean temperature anomalies Read More »
My DIY global temperatures series continues to down tick from a peak of around 9.975°C in the 365 day moving average in mid February, to 9.93°C at the start of August. Granted that’s only a miniscule …
I think the chart above from the UKMO is displaying daily mean temperature anomalies from the gridded UK data series, it’s impossible to say because they don’t specify what the data source is. It could be …
July 2020 was a generally cool, cloudy and rather wet affair across many central and western parts of the UK. Temperatures were closer to average across the southeast as was sunshine, although rainfall again was below …
This grid of data for tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic took a bit of figuring out. It shows years along the Y axis the years from 1950 to 2020, and along the X axis dates, …
How truly active has the tropical cyclone season been in the Atlantic so far in 2020? Read More »
The Met Office have announced the release of their sixth report on the State of the UK Climate. The latest 22.2 mb PDF of the report was published on Friday. The post to announce it in …
I have often wondered if the severe winter of 1962-63 across Europe was caused by, or in someway enhanced by the nuclear testing that was going on at the time by the Soviet Union and Americans. …
Was the severe winter of 1962-63 caused or enhanced by nuclear testing? Read More »
I have never seen a warning specifically issued for the Shetland Isles before, and that includes strong winds, but the Met Office in their wisdom decided to issue one specifically for them for just 20 to …
Please don’t adjust your monitor settings it’s only me trying to overlay one thermograph from Heathrow on top of another to try and gauge the hourly increase of temperature that went on today. This years temperature …
Today’s 37.8°C at Heathrow makes it the third hottest day on record in UK Read More »
The large cumulonimbus that has rapidly developed in the last three hour and is now close to Paris at 1245 UTC is tracking N’NE and will miss Kent by a long chalk. But there are signs …
The temperature at that mass of concrete and tarmac that we lovingly know as Heathrow Airport has now reached 35.7°C, and who knows if 37°C isn’t possible before mid afternoon.
The temperature has rocketed up to 34.6°C by 1050 UTC this morning at Heathrow Airport, at this rate a maximum of 36°C or higher looks on the cards in a number of places.
The warm sector across Ireland at the moment is humid enough to produce dew points of 15 or 16°C, although not particularly uncommon across the UK in mid summer, it does contrast well with dew points …
The Met Office says it’s cracked seasonal forecasting – I’ll believe it when I see it. We can all now breathe a collective sigh of relief, because the Met Office now think that the NAO index …
Darren Bett and Meteogroup seem convinced that maximum temperatures will get up to 34°C in parts of the southeast on Friday afternoon – maybe it will or maybe it won’t – we will see. Here in …
