I was only remarking in a recent post that the UKMO never seem to identify any quasi-stationary fronts these days on it’s analysis or forecast fax charts, so I was very surprised to see this morning …
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My quite fanciful analysis of today’s 12 UTC chart but what the hell. It’s quite unusual that you get a retrograde kind of low like Juliane is forecast to be. Pressure is already falling quite nicely …
I was looking at the T+24 forecast chart from the UKMO this morning and it occurred to me that you rarely if ever see a quasi-stationary front on an analysis or forecast chart these days from …
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The cold air that plunged down from the north yesterday across IONA is still pushing south today across central Europe with a lot of heavy rain across southern Germany that’s turning to snow over higher ground …
I never really believed the forecast in the various models from earlier in the week regarding their forecast of today’s rain across the NW of Scotland, but it ultimately proved to be completely correct – isn’t …
Yet another miserable couple of days north of Inverness, although we do seem to have escaped the worst of the rain in Strathpeffer, and the sun has broken through a couple of times during the morning …
This is a chart of surface pressure and anomalies since last December which I’ve gleaned from reanalysis data (for 55N 5W) includes peaks for the anticyclone of 1050 hPa that affected southern parts in mid January, …
You could almost use the midnight charts with an excessive number of fronts on them as a marker to when the Chief with a love of multiple warm sectors and occlusions was on shift. I can …
After my emotional plea yesterday that the occlusion coming down across Scotland was in fact a cold front in disguise and never in reality been an occlusion at all, the Met Office had a change of …
The cold front that’s now across the Moray Firth and moving quickly southward maybe not be a classic of it’s type, a low level feature with little upper or medium cloud on it, but it goes …
The surface cold front that’s now crossing the northwest of Scotland looks a pretty weak affair on the face of it, but it did produce a sharp drop in temperature and a burst of heavy rain …
Despite my earlier protestations that the occlusion the Met Office had drawn across Scotland in reality didn’t exist in their 06 UTC analysis when compared to the visible satellite imagery, undeterred the Great Oz confounded me …
Where exactly did the occlusion that was supposedly over Inverness in the 06 UTC analysis go? It’s certainly not evident in the 0845 UTC satellite image, although the trough that’s following on behind looks to be …
I thought that I would just take a look back at the history of this pesky cold front that’s been quasi-stationary for much of the last five days over the northwest of Scotland and try and …
A flat warm front wave on the cold front running E’NE across Northern Ireland makes for an interesting plotted chart for 15 UTC today with a sharp temperature contrast north south across the UK. Looking forward …
It’s around one degree here at the moment but it’s almost 14°C in Exeter at 09 UTC inside the warm front wave
The most striking thing about the chart though are the wind gusts (in knots) being reported from just about every station in IONA apart from those in northeast Scotland at the moment. A few of the gusts in Lincolnshire are already in excess of 60 mph with higher to come.
It’s not a first, but I’m sure it was never conceived in the original Norwegian cyclone model by Jacob Bjerknes
Dear Ben please feel free to use this plotted chart for your later broadcast, alternatively you could always print it out and put it on your mantle piece.
Another very large temperature contrast north south across the country today.
I don’t know the exact technical term for this ‘shield’ of cloud is, other than calling it jet stream cirrus but I know its a harbinger of rapid development. I quite like shield of cloud that I’ve coined, who knows perhaps it’ll catch on.
I was rather surprised that they didn’t cancel it earlier, and had thought they might leave the warning in force and brazen it out like they’ve done in the past, after all it is a rather windy day south of 53° north, and there have been a few lively gusts around.
