Regional rainfall in 2020
In the nine regional UKP regional areas of the UK the 365 day anomalies expressed as a percentage of the 1981-2010 LTA are all …
In the nine regional UKP regional areas of the UK the 365 day anomalies expressed as a percentage of the 1981-2010 LTA are all …
Quite remarkably the annual rainfall total across England and Wales for 2020 was just 0.2 mm higher than it was in 2019. Last year …
There is no denying that Scotland has been progressively wetter for the last 158 years or so. The linear trend for the year indicates …
It was certainly dull in Ross-shire during December 2020 with only 50% of the average sunshine, in contrast in nearby Caithness sunshine was over …
I don’t often agree with the Met Office, but I can’t argue with them in the headlines in their latest news blog when they …
It looks like December 2020 is going to be remembered as a rather wet month particularly in the southwest.
I heard on the TV weather yesterday that yesterday, the 7th of December 2020, had been the coldest day in the UK at Santon …
I notice that the Weather Online website is now using Highcharts for their climate graphs. Weather Online has always been an invaluable resource for …
The first week of December has been a pretty dreich wet affair across the east of Scotland. There’s been well over 70 mm of …
Mean temperatures across the whole of the UK were 7.7°C during November 2020. That was 1.5°C above the 1981-2010 LTA and made it the …
I am not privileged to have access to the daily reports from the stations in the climate network of the Met Office, so these …
So it never quite rained hard enough in 2020 to challenge the record wet October of 1903. It ended up being the fifth wettest …
Thanks to being stuck in a warm sector overnight – because I don’t for one minute believe that ridiculous bent back occlusion in the …
This is rather an experimental offering on my part of a chart showing the percentage difference from the 1981-2010 LTA of rainfall across the …
October 2020 – very wet, but was it the wettest? Read More »
To answer the question let’s take a closer look at October rainfall for the whole of the UK using gridded data – which lets …
The Department of Odd Climate Statistics down at the Met Office in deepest darkest Devon have struck again! This time they have added up …
The Department of Odd Climate Statistics strikes again! Read More »
The topsy turvy 365 day rainfall accumulations continue with the latest gridded UK daily totals for September 2020 figures from the UKMO. Anomalies across …
A cold start to the first week of autumn across much of IONA away from the southeast of England, and in sharp contrast following …
Equinoctial galesThe implication contained in this term, which is in fairly wide popular use, that GALES are either more frequent or more severe near …
This has got to be one of the worst examples of a map of climate statistics that you will ever see. It attempts to …
Don’t think for one second that the heatwave of the last week can compare to the one that occurred in the last week of …
A simple comparison of the heatwaves of August 2020 and June-July 1976 Read More »
On the same floor plate and right next door to the Climate Attribution team at the Met Office down in Exeter, is the Department …
July 2020 was a generally cool, cloudy and rather wet affair across many central and western parts of the UK. Temperatures were closer to …