Cyclonic cold end to June
June looks set to remain colder than average and more cyclonic as we go through the next ten days, that’s according to the latest …
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Fly in the ointment
A rare dry day this merry month of May, and possibly the warmest of the year in the Strath since last September. The haar …
Fourway model comparison for Saturday
It is still just over four days away but the models are not in full agreement about Saturday’s weather yet. The GFS has totally …
You say hello and high says goodbye
The Bank Holiday high doesn’t seem to want to stick around for very long according to the ECMWF, and by Tuesday it’s back to …
The all important Bank holiday weather
The Bank Holiday is still six days off so things can change, but at the moment it looks like Saturday and Sunday will be …
High pressure to end May – but no heatwave
The long awaited change of type in the form of high pressure will arrive by this time next week, that’s if the latest forecast …
Low Marco heralds cold end to May
I have been looking into my crystal ball (aka the Hires ECMWF model) and I foresee that low Marco on Thursday heralds a resurgence …
So what happens now?
So what happens now? Well, according to two of the leading NWP models once we’ve seen the pack of this short cyclonic spell and …
UKMO beat record for shortest warm front
The UKMO have beaten the record in their T+36 forecast chart for the shortest warm front ever. News of the new record has taken …
GFS out on a limb with this forecast *updated
On the face of it the GFS model seems to be out on a limb in how it’s forecasting a significantly deeper and more …
All’s not lost – well not quite
The NWP of the last week have been united in showing how, after the current anticyclonic easterlies collapses later this week, they will be …
GFS-ECMWF split
It looks to me that the GFS and ECMWF models start to diverge from around next Friday (T+120) when the GFS has cold air …
What happens next?
Well what happens next is that a deep low to the west on Thursday tries to push it’s occluding frontal system north and east …
Mild air pushes into eastern Europe
Storm Christoph has made short work of the short cold spell that had become established across Scandinavia and eastern Europe since the New Year, …
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 …
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 …