25 May 2021 – 14 UTC analysis
Another thoroughly wet and rather cold day across the southwest with a breakaway wave running E’SE across the tip of Cornwall at 14 UTC …
Analysis
Low Nathan
A terrific satellite image of low Nathan with it’s active cold front that would put many a winter low to shame. I find it …
Winds at K2
The severe gale force nine W’NW ‘ly at the weather buoy K2 (62081) may be indicative of how strong the winds will get later …
More troughs in the forecast
Chris Fawkes seems to have got a bee in his bonnet about troughs in his forecasts at the moment. Today he has identified yet …
Four troughs and two convergence zones
Trough man, or woman, has been on duty again today down in Exeter. In his or her 12 UTC analysis, he or she has …
30°C in Strasbourg this afternoon
A sudden warm plume of air has wafted up from the sub-tropics across central Europe today. Temperatures at 14 UTC reached 30.3°C at Strasbourg …
8 May 2021 – This morning’s snow over the northern Pennines
It is still surprisingly cold over the north of England ahead of the warm front that’s steadily marching northeast across the country. I should …
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Snow in May
I don’t keep detailed weather records anymore, it just reminds me how short our life spans are, but I think I’m right in saying …
Ghost trough
Why we spend millions on a weather radar network, poor as the resolution is across the north, just to ignore it does make you …
A rival to Mr Occlusion – I give you Trough Man!
Just when you think you’ve seen them all and they just can’t get any more ridiculous, the boys down in Exeter seem to pull …
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Remarkably thin warm front – really?
Todays 12 UTC analysis from the UKMO is another one for my collection of remarkable analysis charts from them. The contoured dew points would …
Disappearing warm front miraculously returns as an upper occlusion
This mornings warm front that mysteriously disappeared from the 06 UTC UKMO analysis chart has miraculously returned as an upper occlusion in their 12 …
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The mysterious disappearing warm front
As you know I get quite agitated by some of the analyses that the UKMO come up with in their six hourly fax charts. …
11 Apr 2021 – 13 UTC Relative Humidities
Just back from a walk along the shores of the Cromarty Firth. The weather was beautiful to start with but a passing CB had …
9 Apr 2021 – 07 UTC analysis
Simple enough analysis this morning across IONA. A beautiful sunny morning across the south and east of Scotland and much of northern England. Cold …
Spot the mistake…
I don’t know what the Great Oz was thinking when he drew the 18 UTC analysis chart up this evening. Addendum Interestingly this chart …
4 Apr 2021 – 20 UTC analysis
The Norwegians seemed to a have picked a perfect day to go on strike with their SYNOP observations going AWOL, so this analysis is …
Mr Occlusions been at it again
Just when you thought that the analysis couldn’t be any simpler, cold front coming down from the north introducing Arctic maritime air, Mr Occlusion …
So this was a cold front
The Met Office reckon that this rather persistent band of stratocumulus base ~4,000 feet and aligned NW-SE across Scotland was a cold front undergoing …
31 Mar 2021 – 06 UTC analysis
I can see why the Great Oz has been having problems with his/her analysis across Scotland in the 06 UTC chart, the cold front …
Convergence line or old occlusion?
Chris Fawkes thinks that the line of showers aligned NW-SE across central England this morning has been brought about as the result of a …
15 Mar 2021 – The Ides of March
The weather has settled down again at the start of a new week as pressure continues to build from the southwest. There’s not a …
11 Mar 2021 – 10 UTC gusts
The bent back occlusion has just cleared the east coast of England at 10 UTC but it’s still a very windy morning across the …