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 …
Climate
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 …
The Department of Odd Climate Statistics strikes again!
The Department of Odd Climate Statistics down at the Met Office in deepest darkest Devon have struck again! This time they have added up …
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Topsy turvy rainfall anomalies
The topsy turvy 365 day rainfall accumulations continue with the latest gridded UK daily totals for September 2020 figures from the UKMO. Anomalies across …
Cold start to autumn
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 gales: fact or fiction?
Equinoctial galesThe implication contained in this term, which is in fairly wide popular use, that GALES are either more frequent or more severe near …
How to improve the visualisation of monthly ATD lightning activity data from the Met Office
This has got to be one of the worst examples of a map of climate statistics that you will ever see. It attempts to …
A simple comparison of the heatwaves of August 2020 and June-July 1976
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 …
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The Department of Odd Climate Statistics
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 climate summary
July 2020 was a generally cool, cloudy and rather wet affair across many central and western parts of the UK. Temperatures were closer to …
