Higher than average pressure north of Iceland (+7 hPa) and lower than average pressure over Denmark (-7 hPa) produced an elongated belt of low …
May 2021 – Circulation second most cyclonic in 150 years Read More »
April 2021 may well have become the sixth most anticyclonic (60%) since 1871 using the Objective Lamb Weather Type series from the CRU, but …
This is an infographic of the climate indices drawn from the objective Lamb Weather type data for the last four months since the 16th …
Lamb circulation indices, sine waves and that missed named storm Read More »
I was just scanning the objective Lamb Weather Type data for the most anticyclonic April in the data series that started in 1871, as …
Apr 1938 – An exceptionally dry and anticyclonic month Read More »
There have been only six named storms so far this season, and only three of those were named by the UKMO, although there was …
The St Valentine days storm – the one that got away Read More »
I thought that I would just another viewer to display daily objective Lamb Weather Types for the last year. As you can see I’ve …
An abrupt start to autumn 2020 is evident in these six charts of various objective LWT circulation indices since the 7th of July 2020. …
Equinoctial galesThe implication contained in this term, which is in fairly wide popular use, that GALES are either more frequent or more severe near …
I hadn’t realise until I ran the analysis on the objective LWT data from the CRU just how cyclonic June 2020 had been. It’s …
The latest ECMWF hires model is hinting at a easterly circulation by mid June across the UK, with high pressure predominating over the Norwegian …
It looks like high Keywan, as the BIM have named it, will stick around in the central Atlantic right out till day ten if …
This has to have been been the windiest autumn/winters of the last four across the IONA. There have been fived named storms up until …
This winter so far has a Gale Index of 30.3, the third highest of any winter since 1871, and not too far behind the memorable stormy winter of 2013-14.
June 2019 was the fifth most cyclonic since 1871
This June has already started on a very cyclonic note, and interestingly there are already five June’s from this century already in the top twelve, with June 2012 ranked as second highest.
Looking at the Jenkinson Lamb objective weather data from the CRU at the UEA, I find that May 1896 was the most anticyclonic across …
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