BBC model of the day not handling the rain at all well
Whatever NWP model the BBC are using as their model of the day it doesn’t seem to be handling the rain either across the …
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Little agreement between models
There seems to be little agreement in the GFS and the ECMWF NWP models beyond seven days (T+168) at the moment. With the ECMWF …
Carol getting her priorities right
This morning there was a slight frost from nine sites across the country with Altnaharra reporting a minimum of -2.4°C. It’s not unheard of …
Summer and Winter solstice temperature differences
There are a lot of stories circulating around at the moment about how similar maximum temperatures in today’s summer solstice are with those of …
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One of the coolest summer solstices – I should cocoa
Nick Miller described today’s summer solstice as one of the “coolest summer solstices you’re going to find around”, but if he thinks he can …
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20-21 June 2021 – Overnight ground frost
A ground frost at three stations across the northeast of Scotland this morning to coincide with the summer solstice.
Different strokes
Just trying out a few of the new features in the WordPress editor.My take on the analysis, and for once I seem to be …
Misplaced rain across N Scotland
The UKMO model has been having problems fixing where rain is going to fall across Scotland for a while now, and it’s the same …
June 2021 – Latest rainfall figures
It seems that UK climate stats are all the vogue these days and everyone has done a latest June rainfall story so here’s mine. …
Never trust a model beyond T+96
Scrub that post from yesterday about a cold and cyclonic spell to come, the ECMWF in their latest model run now see an anticyclonic …
Cyclonic cold end to June
June looks set to remain colder than average and more cyclonic as we go through the next ten days, that’s according to the latest …
18 June 2021 – Quite a day
Since midnight rainfall estimates from weather radar suggest there has been around 60 to 70 mm of rain in the wettest places across Hampshire …
NIWA
If you wondered what NIWA is and the acronym stands for it’s the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research which is a bit …
Cold and wet in the southeast, heavy thunderstorms in southern North Sea
It is all happening across the southeast of the country today. Lunchtime temperature anomalies are close to 7°C below the LTA around the Capital …
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We haven’t lost the humidity…
Helen Willetts says that we “haven’t lost the humidity”, when away from the southeast of England for the last couple of days at least, …
First nip of autumn
There was a definite first nip of autumn in the air again this morning in Ross-shire, with temperatures down to 1.7°C at Loch Glascarnoch …
More heavy rain for southeast
There was more heavy rain in parts of the southeast overnight. The highest rainfall totals looked to have been across Hampshire, where hurricanes hardly …
It’s still warm air…
The air is neither fresher or warmer across Scotland today I’m afraid, and hasn’t been since last week. I have no idea if this …
17 June 2021 – High dewpoints
It is not too often that you see dewpoints in excess of 20°C in summer across the northwest of Europe, but there have been …
16-17 June 2021 – Overnight thunderstorms
A large thunderstorm tracked N’NE across Sussex and Kent into the North Sea with 46 mm of rain at Manston. Quite a sharp back …
16-17 June 2021 – A tropical night
A large range in overnight minima across NW Europe from 4°C in northern Scotland to no lower than 20°C – a tropical night – …
16 June 2021 – Hourly weather radar accumulations
Quite an eventful evening across the southeast with more storms to follow later in the night. In contrast there’s a lovely rosy red sunset …
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30°C on the cards
I notice that Heathrow is 3.4°C higher than it was at the same time yesterday at 13 UTC, which is enough to produce a …
