20 Jan 2021 – Wednesdays low
There seems to be a bit of a disagreement between the GFS and ECMWF models about how much the low that’s forecast to track …
Forecast
A very specific forecast
I couldn’t resist showing you this mornings very specific forecast for the Highlands for Wednesday from the Met Office. They say that if the …
Milder, but colder in far north with rain then snow
All the weathercasters are having problems with the nationwide headlines that they’ve tried to dream up for this morning, they can’t decide if its …
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Anticyclonic spell in north, windy, raw and rather cold further south
The cold spell continues over the whole of IONA al least for the next four days according to the Hires ECMWF model. Eventually high …
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A rather cold and wintry Hogmanay
It looks like it will be a cold and wintry Hogmanay for 2021 across IONA. The weather continues to be rather cold, rather than …
So this is what they mean by an “early frost”
I know we have a bit of a snow cover at the moment in Strathpeffer but the model the Met Office use for their …
A few more euphemisms
I shouldn’t really complain because at least the person who wrote this forecast for the Highlands at the Met Office is obviously trying their …
Is that windy in the northeast or wind in the northeast?
You really would have thought they would have read their forecast through before issuing it especially the national forecast.
Cold cyclonic conditions persist into start of next week
The cold cyclonic spell which has developed this week is likely to persist into the middle of next week according to the latest run …
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Wednesday’s curious low
The ECMWF model has picked up on a secondary low which is a rather curious but vigorous little feature later this week. It forms …
Signs of a northerly after brief anticyclonic interlude
It is still rather a long way off but there are signs that as the anticyclonic spell that gets underway during the coming week …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …