What’s Dennis getting up to?
The 11 UTC plotted chart with highest gusts and temperatures that hour
Observations
Irresponsible of the Met Office
What would the headline writers at the Daily Mail or Daily Express do without reports of the highest gusts from the Needles?
Snow catches Met Office on the hop
Here in Ross-shire there has been a continual stream of light snow showers throughout the day, which until the last hour have not settled.
Aboyne coldest and warmest place in UK
A 16.3°C diurnal range in temperatures in no more than nine hours I would reckon.
Last nights occlusion
Last night was not a night for any wild camping in Scotland although the sunrise from the Grampians must have been quite spectacular.
The Newfoundland blizzard
How to estimate a level snow depth in a hurricane force 12 blizzard.
Not so sure about the Mumbles pressure
My guess is that the pressure sensor at the lighthouse is reading at least 0.5 hPa too high.
Highest pressure in IONA since 1957
The questions is how high will it go?
19 Jan 2020 min temps
You may notice that I’ve managed to scrape a few more climate stations in this chart of minimum temperatures from the internet.
Jet pushes upper cloud south and surface pressure towards 1050 hPa
It’s not surprising that the high cloud has spread south so rapidly in the last few hours as there was a 150 knot northerly jet at midnight down across the country.
Please tell Phil Avery he’s not quite right
Remember you read it here first.
The mysterious gust of 194 mph
We will never know if the wind didn’t veer more sharply into the northwest on the passage of that cold front, and allow the wind to funnel directly up Coire Cas and produce that record gust seen at the Ptarmigan station.
