Snow in the south
Some places in the south of England are seeing their first taste of snow so far this winter. The occlusion, or should that be …
Some places in the south of England are seeing their first taste of snow so far this winter. The occlusion, or should that be …
There was a large temperature fall and veer of wind on the cold front associated with storm Christoph on Wednesday evening. I analysed the …
Storm Christoph – sharp fall in temperature behind cold front Read More »
Storm Christoph has made short work of the short cold spell that had become established across Scandinavia and eastern Europe since the New Year, …
Another easy but interesting analysis. There looks to be around a good five degree drop in temperature on the cold front itself. There is …
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 …
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 …
An easy analysis today as far as I can see over IONA at 13 UTC. Not surprisingly the UKMO think differently – why have …
This is my version of this mornings 06 UTC analysis which I’m afraid differs quite a lot from the official one, it looks like …
The Met Office may think they have got all the warnings bar the one for the kitchen sink in force overnight, but it looks …
An interesting 06 UTC analysis this morning. You can still find the warm sector and the triple point now with its own discrete centre …
There are only 54 miles or so between Aonach Mor (next to Ben Nevis) and Cairngorm, but the temperature contrast between the too this …
There has been heavy snowfall up to 3.13 metres deep along the west coast of Japan in recent days which has led to the …
There is a fascinating battle going on between mild and cold air that’s getting fought out over the north of Scotland this morning. The …
There is not much warm air inside this warm sector, perhaps dewpoints of five or six inside it as opposed to ones below zero …
Mean pressure anomalies for December across IONA were as much as 12 hPa below average. That combined with +10 hPa anomalies in the western …
I never thought with the severe frost we’ve seen today, which persisted locally till 17 UTC, that any of the precipitation tonight from the …
Here is my analysis cum nephanalysis of the plotted chart for 10 UTC this morning. The snow across the high ground of Scotland is …
Another amazing forecast chart from the UKMO. In their latest T+48 forecast chart creation there is a completely new type of synoptic feature in …
Another classic from the UKMO – a warm quadrilateral? Read More »
The gale force northerly wind that’s been blowing for seven straight hours at Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis with frequent gusts to 49 …
Maybe the cold front is a little further south but that’s the general gist of it at 05 UTC on the 27th of December …
The winter solstice takes place on Monday, 21st of December 2020 at 10:02 UTC A feature of the weather so far today has been the massive shield …
That crafty lot down in Exeter have invented a “pre-warm front” which they first added to their 00 UTC analysis. This then enabled them …
Surprise, surprise the frontal system that’s entwined around Tuesday’s vigorous area of low pressure has now miraculously developed a warm sector in this afternoons …
Tuesday’s low miraculously develops a warm sector Read More »
I will be the first to admit I have never been a weather forecaster and I haven’t studied in detail the development of the …
First they occlude it far too rapidly then it’s a cold front again Read More »