Met Office – say one thing and do another
This is a classic example of media hype from the Met Office press team regarding climate data. The article is about the upcoming two …
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March 2021 – Weather Summary
The auto headline in my UK gridded climate application says for the month of March 2021 for the UK – “Mild, near average rainfall …
Record-breaking rain more likely due to climate change (except in Northern Scotland)
Another lockdown piece of climate research from the Met Office to bolster up their claim that climate change is making extreme record-breaking rainfall events …
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An intercomparison of UK temperatures over the last 30 years
I have so many climate programs on the go that I often don’t stop to compare the results from one with the results from …
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Feb 2021 – precipitation
After the record wet February of 2020 precipitation totals in February 2021 were much closer to average in gridded data for the whole of …
Feb 2021 – N Scotland driest, coldest and sunniest region
Regionally in the three major climate indicators the north of Scotland was the driest, coldest and sunniest place in the UK during February 2021.
A touch of sour grapes
I have just been reading the Winter and February climate statistics article from the UKMO and I found one interesting comment the UKMO made …
Possible periodicity in cold Januarys in northern Scotland – and when does a new decade start?
I thought that I had stumbled on some periodicity in January temperatures for the north of Scotland. There is a tendency for cold January’s …
Jan 2021 – Northern Scotland much colder, drier and much sunnier than average
The weather in the North of Scotland during January 2021 was much colder, drier and much sunnier than average. Not that you heard very …
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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 …
2020 rainfall in England and Wales
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 …
Scotland is getting wetter
There is no denying that Scotland has been progressively wetter for the last 158 years or so. The linear trend for the year indicates …
December 2020 – weather summary
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 …
2020 – very mild, very wet & sunny
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 …
December rainfall
It looks like December 2020 is going to be remembered as a rather wet month particularly in the southwest.
Pockets of frost
I heard on the TV weather yesterday that yesterday, the 7th of December 2020, had been the coldest day in the UK at Santon …
World Weather Online
I notice that the Weather Online website is now using Highcharts for their climate graphs. Weather Online has always been an invaluable resource for …
Wet start to December in eastern Scotland
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 …
November 2020 – Fifth mildest since 1884
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 …
The coldest nights and places in 2020
I am not privileged to have access to the daily reports from the stations in the climate network of the Met Office, so these …
October 2020 – wet and rather dull
So it never quite rained hard enough in 2020 to challenge the record wet October of 1903. It ended up being the fifth wettest …
Record mild November night
Thanks to being stuck in a warm sector overnight – because I don’t for one minute believe that ridiculous bent back occlusion in the …
October 2020 – very wet, but was it the wettest?
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 …
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Will October 2020 be the wettest on record?
To answer the question let’s take a closer look at October rainfall for the whole of the UK using gridded data – which lets …