How to recreate a plotted weather chart from 1963 with observations from the Daily Weather Report
How to recreate plotted weather charts with observations from the Daily Weather Report – yes it’s rather a mouthful as titles go but it’s …
Observations
14 Jan 2021 – 06 UTC analysis
An interesting 06 UTC analysis this morning. You can still find the warm sector and the triple point now with its own discrete centre …
A knife edge
There are only 54 miles or so between Aonach Mor (next to Ben Nevis) and Cairngorm, but the temperature contrast between the too this …
Heavy snow in Japan
There has been heavy snowfall up to 3.13 metres deep along the west coast of Japan in recent days which has led to the …
Meanwhile in Spain…
After the record snowfall in Madrid last week, Spain last night saw what must have been one of the coldest nights for a very …
Peak temperatures over Christmas
A quick look back over the last ten days temperatures and dewpoints across a couple of high peaks and a pass across the UK. …
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 …
18 December Rainfall Extremes
I noticed this Tweet was thrown into the Met Office Twitter feed listing some extreme rainfall totals from the Environment Agency and Natural Resources …
The Mount Everest AWS
Kate Ravilious has been reading the bulletin of the AMS again. The research article she is talking about in her article which you can …
Yellow warning for heavy rain is only part of the story
The details in tomorrow’s yellow warning for rain only tell part of the story about the weather across northeast Scotland. At first glance the …
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Great day on Scotland’s mountains
It’s a shame that tomorrow will be an absolute nightmare if you’re caught out on them.
Lerwick Observatory
When I went looking for the ‘observatory’ in Lerwick I imagined it to be a old Victorian stone building similar to the observatory down …
28 November 2020 – 12 UTC
A lovely autumn day across our part of Scotland after some early morning fog in the strath.Drier air is spreading into the southeast from …
Fog in Exeter catches Met Office out
As suspected yesterday afternoon the area of fog outlined in the Met Office’s yellow warning extended too far north, and even though they issued …
Now that’s what I call a cold front
A deepening extratropical low ultimately heading our way has brought a plunge of cold air across eastern America overnight. It certainly wasn’t a good …
Rain turns to snow on back edge of cold front
It’s a shame that the SIESAWS is not online at the moment on Aonach Mor because I reckon the heavy rain that’s been falling …
Not quite accurate I’m afraid Matt
Not quite accurate I’m afraid Matt.There are plenty of places in the north and west of the UK which are colder than 12°C this …
Aultbea AWS or should that be Mellon Charles?
I have finally found the AWS at Aultbea (WMO #03034) the problem I had was that it’s not actually located in the village of …
Warm front but where’s the warm sector?
Admittedly there’s a load of orographic rainfall affecting the west of Scotland at the moment but I don’t see any evidence of any change …
Snow level falls overnight
The snow level has fallen to around 2,000 feet overnight across the northern Cairngorm as you might expect. Further west where they’ve seen much …
Another good forecast
A little late on getting this story out because I had to do some work on the application I use to analyse wind speeds …
Ten metre waves at K5 yesterday
There were ten metre waves yesterday at K5 in the Atlantic 150 nautical miles to the northwest of Stornoway (see red dot on chart) …
Winter drawers on
The northern corries of Cairngorm have already been picking up a fresh mantle of snow over the last few days. I wonder if last …
