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 …
Analysis
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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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, …
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 …
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 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 – 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 …
16 Jan 2021 – 06 UTC analysis
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 …
Gusts to 58 knots at South Uist
The Met Office may think they have got all the warnings bar the one for the kitchen sink in force overnight, but it looks …
14 Jan 2021 – 06 UTC analysis
An interesting 06 UTC analysis this morning. You can still find the warm sector and the triple point now with its own discrete centre …
A knife edge
There are only 54 miles or so between Aonach Mor (next to Ben Nevis) and Cairngorm, but the temperature contrast between the too this …
Heavy snow in Japan
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 …
Fascinating battle between mild and cold
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 …
9 January 2021
There is not much warm air inside this warm sector, perhaps dewpoints of five or six inside it as opposed to ones below zero …
December 2020 – monthly mean pressure
Mean pressure anomalies for December across IONA were as much as 12 hPa below average. That combined with +10 hPa anomalies in the western …
The UKMO 12 UTC analysis was probably right
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 …
Funny that…
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 classic from the UKMO – a warm quadrilateral?
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 …
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Stornoway wind veer
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 …
The gist of it
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 …
Winter Solstice
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 …
Which version do you prefer?
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 …
Tuesday’s low miraculously develops a warm sector
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 …
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First they occlude it far too rapidly then it’s a cold front again
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 …
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