Next weekends retrograde low
I had to check that I wasn’t seeing things when I first looked at the ECMWF hi-res model for next weekend across IONA. For a moment I thought I’d downloaded the images from the wxcharts.com site …
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Wednesdays low
There is not a great deal of consensus between any of the forecasts for Wednesday from the NWP data available on the internet. The ECMWF model seems to be the outlier, which as well as the …
Major role reversal in week ahead
According to the latest run of the ECMWF hi-res model a major role reversal in weather types is forecast to take place in the next week, from the roaring zonal westerly that we have across northern …
If the weather’s crap in the south then it’s crap everywhere
As the heatwave slowly unravels into a hot and steamy breakdown from mid-week onwards across southern areas, a bit of a north-south split looks likely to develop with an anticyclonic ridge toppling down across the the …
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Next week’s thundery rain
Where will the focus of the rain that falls from next week’s forecast thunderstorms be? There is not a great deal of agreement in the latest run of the three latest NWP model. There does seem …
Northern Scotland on edge of rain band
Yesterday’s NWP models were spot on about how far today’s rain would extend northward. Much of the northern Highlands have stayed clear of the rain from low Beate. We just had a couple of hours here …
This is the real story about today’s weather
This is the real story about today’s weather – it’s cold in most places for July, and it’s how it’s been in the north for the last week, but finally the cold northwesterlies have cleared away …
High pressure in charge – but not for long
High pressure may be in charge for the next couple of days, particularly across the south, but it won’t be for long, as this dismal July continues to disappoint. Now what was it that the Met …
The infamous north-south split in this weeks weather
I am fairly certain that the ‘north-south split‘ cliché started with Michael Fish, as much as I’m certain that John Kettley started the popularity of idiom ‘from the word go‘ one, still occasionally uttered today by …
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Met Office put positive spin on next weeks weather
In a way to cheer up the nations spirit after what has been a dreadful week of summer weather across the UK, with thunderstorms and monsoon like conditions across much of the south, the Met Office …
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So there’s not much change on the weather front over the next few days…
Another great opening line from Tomasz Schafernaker in the taped weather forecast that’s been running all morning on the BBC News channel. So there’s not much change on the weather front over the next few days… …
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So high pressure is in charge is it? The proverbial fly in the ointment
It is rather uncommon to see a spell of moderate rain with pressure over 1030 hPa but it’s forecast to happen overnight across northern Scotland. There seems to be no end to these kind of scenarios …
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Another one of those grass frosts across Scotland
The new breed of Met Office ‘forecaster’ either get the terminology wrong or the forecast and sometimes both. Perhaps I’m being too hard on them, because the NWP mesoscale hourly forecast temperatures for overnight was even …
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‘Dramatically colder’ next weekend according to Ben Rich
Ben Rich seems to be convinced that the weather is going to turn dramatically colder by next weekend. I presume he is looking at the ECMWF midnight run that does have a cold northerly plunge around …
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More sun for Scotland
Another sunny few days are likely this week across Scotland, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday look particularly good for that. The clear skies at night will no doubt also increase the already high number of frosts that …
A cyclonic Thursday
Thursday is looking particularly cyclonic across the UK, especially across England and Wales with a fairly deepish low for this time of year. The latest GFS run maintains high pressure to the north of the UK …
Wet Tuesday in the south
If these latest model runs are accurate, it looks likely that it will be a wet start to Tuesday across many southern parts of the UK. Meanwhile further north Scotland looks likely to remain in the …
Goodbye fine spell
Things are on the change as from today across most of the country, as the anticyclonic block that’s been resident with us for the last eight days or so to the west of Norway, finally retreats …
Break down in fine spell by Sunday
Four NWP models seem to be in agreement that this fine spell of weather we have been enjoying will temporarily break down by Sunday. How that comes about is open to some doubt, because all have …
Two out of three ain’t bad
Eleven degrees might not appear to be that warm a maximum temperature, not when compared to the 25°C many of you southerners have been basking in recently, but to the people who live in the Highlands …
Light is the new slight
If you remember slight was a term that in the past was used to describe the lowest severity of frost. Well forget that, it seems that slight has fallen out of favour with our weathercasters, and …
Just another day at the office
The colder weather that’s flooding south across Scotland at the moment, might come as a bit of a shock to people who live further south, but as Shaun Wallace says, it’s just another day at the …
High Nikolas hangs on in north
The high pressure that BIM have named Nikolas is set to stick around this week and after it’s done a quick pirouette further south, its forecast by the midnight run of the hires ECMWF model to …
