Null points from Easter Ross
Occasional snow showers have been drifting down in the northwesterly for the last twenty four hours or more across Easter Ross. You know the …
Temperatures back into double figures
Temperatures in double figures and it’s alter ego temperatures in single figures have got to feature quite highly in the top twenty most overused …
First hints of an easterly?
I may be clutching at straws as to what might come next this winter here, but there are the first signs of an easterly …
Storm Christoph – sharp fall in temperature behind cold front
There was a large temperature fall and veer of wind on the cold front associated with storm Christoph on Wednesday evening. I analysed the …
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Meanwhile down in the Antarctic….
The half term report for Antarctic sea ice shows that the estimated extent to be at 4.191 million square kilometres, that’s 94.7% of the …
Arctic sea ice still holding up
The latest Arctic sea ice estimates from the NSIDC show that current levels, although at only 93.8% of the LTA, are holding up reasonably …
A cold spell to come
The Met Office reckon that there’s a cold spell to come in their latest news blog. It’s exemplifies the parochial approach we get from …
Milder in the north
It may be a colder day across many parts of England and Wales than it was at the same time yesterday, but paradoxically further …
Mild air pushes into eastern Europe
Storm Christoph has made short work of the short cold spell that had become established across Scandinavia and eastern Europe since the New Year, …
Storm Christoph – Precipitation
The highest accumulations from the precipitation from storm Christoph in these weather radar estimates of mine are where you might have expected them, and …
20 Jan 2021 – 18 UTC analysis
Another easy but interesting analysis. There looks to be around a good five degree drop in temperature on the cold front itself. There is …
It’s art Jim, but not as we know it
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Met Office warnings board as crowded and ridiculous as it looks for tomorrow.As Spock would say if …
20 Jan 2021 – 12 UTC temperatures & anomalies
It looks like its another cool day across northern and western parts of IONA with anomalies as generally 2 to 4°C below the LTA, …
Honey I’ve shrunk the warning!
The Great Oz has decided to shrink the amber warning area for heavy rain, he can do that because he is all powerful after …
Cool weather this weekend
So it’s going to be a cool weekend then is it Chris Fawkes – a cool weekend in January – I ask you! I …
Why the UKMO need to ditch the yellow blobs of custard
The Met Office issued a couple of yellow warnings today for the north of Scotland on Thursday, one for snow and one for rain. …
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20 Jan 2021 – 08 UTC analysis and extremes
Another very windy and mild night for mid January across the bulk of England and Wales, with minima no lower than 10°C quite widely …
19-20 January 2021 – Radar rainfall estimates
Some white pixels are showing up over the highest ground which indicates 26 hour totals of precipitation well in excess of 80 mm which …
19-20 Jan 2021 – precipitation
It was certainly a wet 24 hours across the high ground of Northern Ireland, Wales and the northwest England up until 06 UTC this …
Thursday’s shaping up to be a humdinger
Wednesday or Thursday was always forecast to be a wild kind of day over the north of Scotland by the models, and by the …
19 Jan 2021 – 20 UTC analysis
I don’t know how realistic this analysis of mine is without a background field to fill in all the holes in the contouring over …
19 Jan 2021 – rainfall totals since 06 UTC
I notice that in tonight’s news there was footage of people in the flood prone areas around Doncaster furiously boarding up their doors in …
North south split
I so do hate that old cliche from Michael Fish, but what the hell it seems to work for today’s wide range of temperatures …
19 Jan 2021 – 13 UTC analysis
An easy analysis today as far as I can see over IONA at 13 UTC. Not surprisingly the UKMO think differently – why have …