Top of the shop
Rather fittingly for the first day of meteorological autumn a number of nearby stations across the north of Scotland are in the top ten warmest places on what is rather a pleasant afternoon.
Observations
Polarstern reaches North Pole
Apologies for the late posting about the MOSAiC expedition arrival at the North Pole. I had given up on the Polarstern ever reaching the North Pole, especially after the MOSAiC expedition was cut short this spring. …
Wind speeds at buoy 62023 and storm Ellen
I have just put a few charts and graphs together that hopefully clear up the misconception that seems to be doing the rounds that winds were hurricane force as storm Ellen rapidly intensified as it passed …
Was storm Ellen really a tropical storm in disguise?
I received an email this morning regarding the intensity of storm Ellen yesterday evening from Stephen Burt (which I thought was was very kind of him). In the 23 UTC observation at Shannon airport the MSLP …
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Comparing reanalysis anomalies with those from observed values
When viewed as mean temperature anomalies from reanalysis data for the first sixteen days of August 2020, the recent heatwave in the southeast of England looks a little less dramatic. The core of the greatest warmth …
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Today’s high dew points and low humidities
A strange mix of low humidities in the heat across the southeast and high dew points further north and west across the country. It certainly felt quite oppressive ahead of the cold front this afternoon in …
Heathrow 35.7°C at 12 UTC
The temperature at that mass of concrete and tarmac that we lovingly know as Heathrow Airport has now reached 35.7°C, and who knows if 37°C isn’t possible before mid afternoon.
Heathrow Airport 34.6°C at 11 UTC
The temperature has rocketed up to 34.6°C by 1050 UTC this morning at Heathrow Airport, at this rate a maximum of 36°C or higher looks on the cards in a number of places.
Rainfall from low Dana
This is a chart of rainfall accumulations for the last 24 hours (06-06 UTC) derived from the five minute weather radar images from the UKMO DataPoint web service. Low Dana certainly put a bit of rain …
How are the world’s cold poles doing?
Wikipedia reckon that there are three ‘poles of cold‘ in the world, two in the northern hemisphere in the Sakha in eastern Russia at Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon, and the other and by far the coldest in …
Honister Pass supplemental
I thought that I would try and find out in a supplemental to yesterday’s post a little more background into the ‘record’ June rainfall event in the Cumbrian mountains. It looks to me that the EA …
Cold night in Sutherland
There was a slight frost at both Altnaharra and Kinbrace in Sutherland last night, not bad going for the 7th of July and the height of summer, but with sub 546 dam 1000-500 hPa partial thicknesses …
Sunny day in Lerwick
Despite a cloudy evening Lerwick still managed 14.6 hours of sunshine yesterday (15th of June) to be the sunniest place in IONA. Sunrise is at 0238 UTC and sunset 2132 UTC so there is almost 19 …
Snow in June
Snow on the mountains of Scotland in June, not unheard of, but quite a contrast to the warm spell that we saw at the end of May. Low Juliane is making her effects felt across the …
Did Benson’s rain gauge have a spiders nest in it after all?
I was perusing the 24 hour rainfall totals for the UK, as you do, and noticed that this mornings Benson observation for 06 UTC failed to report a 24 hour (06-06 UTC) total. They did however …
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Yesterday’s sea breeze along the Moray coast
Well yesterday’s sea breeze did finally come ashore along the Moray coast, but it left it till well after 16 UTC at Lossiemouth and at nearby Kinloss it never really managed to shake it off at …
Hurn closes in on record for sunniest May
The sunshine total so far this month is 295.5 hours at Hurn, aka Bournemouth airport, is fast closing in on the May record of 317.4 hours set in 1989. So can it close the gap of …
Amphan makes landfall
Cyclone Amphan made landfall on Tuesday evening south of Calcutta. The closest SYNOP report from that part of India in this plotted 12 UTC chart for today is from the city of Dum Dum in West …
Katesbridge the icebox of Northern Ireland does it again
The 18-06 minimum at Katesbridge county Down last night was a remarkably low -6.1°C and according to the Met Office it was close to the all time Northern Ireland extreme minimum for May of -6.5°C. It’s …
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See the cold front
It’s not that often that you can trace the cold front in both the weather radar and satellite images as well as in the plotted observations so clearly, but you can with today’s that’s currently close …
Bingley 15.1°C colder than at the same time yesterday
The temperature at 12 UTC yesterday at Bingley in West Yorkshire was 20.9°C, just twenty four hours later at 12 UTC today the temperature was just 5.8°C, making it 15.1°C colder. Looking further afield across the …
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The merry month of May
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it snow in May, but as I write the snow is swirling down again from another shower in Strathpeffer (40 metres AMSL). The air temperature before the shower …