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Well it’s now well past 12 o’clock so this article is not another April fool like the one I wrote earlier bemoaning the fact that the Met Office never release any of their NWP data. I received a comment from one of my readers this morning informing me...
Mean temperatures for March 2020 came in at 6.71°C, which was +1.16°C above the extended 1772-2018 long-term average for the month. Using the more usual 1961-1990 LTA the mean maximum anomaly was +1.69°C and very much higher than the Mean minimum anomaly of +0.37°C, indicating a larger than...
Many places especially in the east saw an exceptionally sunny March with Shoeburyness the sunniest climate station with 192.5 hours of bright sunshine in total. Meanwhile Loch Glascarnoch just up the road from us was the dullest place with only 62.3 hours although my record is missing two...
March 2020 did start off windy enough, coming in rather lion like with the remains of storm Jorge the French and Spanish named, even though it was probably a lot windier here in the UK than it was in either France or Spain. And for the last ten...
In an unprecedented move the Met Office have decided to make all their NWP data available freely to the public in much the same way that the Americans have done with their GFS model. The news came as a large pink pig was reported to have made a...
March 2020 was a wet month in the northwest of Scotland, but further south and east rainfall was closer to the seasonal average, and the further east that you came the drier it became, such that counties bordering the North Sea, such as East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk...
The rise in the 12 month moving average in global temperatures has been checked during March in my DIY series after rising continually since August 2018. My DIY global temperature series has been wrong before, and it may well be wrong about this, but as far as I...
Just fascinating to watch the movement in the multicellular cloud to the west of IONA. If you watch closely there seems to be a pulse of could moving westward as the day progresses, I reckon it must be another thin layer of altocumulus or more likely a thin...
The temperatures over the weekend must have come as quite a shock to the system to people who are hunkered down self isolating across England and Wales, especially those in the northwest, where maximum temperatures on Sunday were as much as 12°C lower than they were on Wednesday.
It seems to me that although the MOSAiC expedition may end up being a huge success as far as a collaborative scientific mission goes, it missed the most important aspect (to me at least) of reaching and crossing the North Pole, and now the Polar Stern seems to...
The better start to the Arctic sea ice extent season didn’t last too long because of a week or so of large daily losses during the second half of March, which look like they seem to have stopped for now. Otherwise sea ice extents are the 8th lowest...
I think the 12 UTC anomaly chart is much more informative than the 12 UTC wind chill chart. There were negative wind chill values down the east coast and on any high ground. I notice as the axis of the ridge from the intense anticyclone Keywan slipped south...
I guessed correctly because as far as I can see Malin Head pipped Tiree to the highest March MSLP in March. At 11 UTC this morning the pressure there was 1051.3 hPa or 31.04″ of mercury. This is the fourth highest pressure ever recorded across the British Isles...
This one caught me out. I had committed the cardinal sin of believing that NWP is always right, something that you can usually take for granted, but not always. The 1049.3 hPa at Stornoway at 21 UTC is the highest pressure in the British Isles for March. It...
The BBC weathercasters are already making a play about how high the windchill factor will be across England and Wales on Sunday, so I thought I’d just make a point in saying that there’s also a strong wind chill across Scotland today. But of course that’s not very...
It’s been quite a week one way or another, what with the Corona Virus lock down and then most of England and Wales seeing seven straight sunny days. It’s been no wonder people have been tempted to go out and try and get some of that spring sunshine,...
I would have thought that the last seven sunny days across England and Wales stands a very good chance of being the sunniest seven days in the whole of 2020. Weybourne was just pipped at the post by Shoeburyness as being the sunniest SYNOP station in the last...
We could see a new extreme high MSLP record for the British Isles on Sunday if as expected the 1050 hPa isobar gets close to stations in the northwest. The two favourite locations for this to happen I would have thought would be Malin Head in Ireland or...
