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 …
Analysis
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 …
Much warmer now cold front gone through
Counter intuitively it feels much warmer across our part of northeast Scotland after the passage of the cold front earlier this morning than it …
UKMO beat record for shortest warm front
The UKMO have beaten the record in their T+36 forecast chart for the shortest warm front ever. News of the new record has taken …
23-24 Feb 2021 – a wet 48 hours as Mr Occlusion strikes again
Large areas of high ground across IONA have seen well in excess of 100 mm of rain in the last 48 hours or so …
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14 Feb 2021 – 11 UTC analysis
The snow’s thawing remarkably quickly this morning down the strath which is always a depressing site as far as I’m concerned, so I thought …
7 Feb 2021 – 07 UTC analysis
Just like the Channel Four alternative to the Queen’s message on Christmas day here is my alternative 07 UTC analysis to that of the …
Storm Darcy begins to get its act together
Storm Darcy is starting to get its act together across the south of France this afternoon. There’s some warm air getting entrained into the …
2 Feb 2021 – 14 cm snow overnight at Bingley
It just shows you just how short a spell of moderate to heavy snow you need to put down a quick six inches of …
Phantom front finally gives up the ghost
Yesterday’s phantom occlusion that was supposedly edging down from the north across northern Scotland in the UKMO analysis charts finally gave up the ghost …
Occlusion too far south
I always keep an eye on the latest analysis from the UKMO, and the 12 UTC one for today has an occlusion aligned along …
Warm front or occlusion you decide
The mild air is returning to the southwest this afternoon. I can’t decide if it’s a warm occlusion, a single warm front, or an …
29 Jan 2021 – 08 UTC analysis
An interesting plotted chart for 08 UTC with my best guess analysis. See how the wind picks up after the passage of the cold …
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 …
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, …