What’s wrong with Tórshavn?
There’s a problem with the anemometer at Tórshavn (WMO #06011). The problem has existed for many years and as far as I know its …
Observations
Weighing rain
This might sound like a rather odd request of me to make, and a bit of a long shot, but do any of you …
31 Mar 2021 – Cloud free Alps
Central parts of Europe have seen some beautiful sunny weather over the last few days.Looking back through the EODIS archives I see that this …
Very mild still at 22 UTC this evening
It’s been a very mild evening indeed away from southern areas.The temperature at Aboyne for instance is still 14.8°C as I write (22 UTC).That’s …
The kiss of death
Despite what both the latest visible satellite imagery and observations are saying here in Strathpeffer it’s been a fine and sunny right from dawn …
18.6°C diurnal range at Strathallan
After yesterday’s afternoons exceptional mild maximum of 18.8°C, the night remained clear at Strathallan allowing temperatures to crash to a low of just 0.2°C. …
17 Mar 2021 – snow depths across the Alps
I notice that the northern Alps have been getting a late fall of winter snow at the moment, adding to what I would have …
16 Mar 2021 – maximum temperatures
The warmest place in the UK today was Pershore in Worcestershire with 17.9°C.
Wet in northern Scotland – not a bit of it
If you believed the weather radar you would have thought that it was a thoroughly wet afternoon across the north of Scotland – not …
How to get rid of an inversion instantly
The comparatively high temperatures over the higher mountain tops across Scotland were swept away yesterday by colder air that advected down in the northeasterly …
Stubborn Moray Firth cloud refuses to budge
A strange area of low cloud in the inner Moray Firth today refuses to budge today. It’s quite detached from the real haar like …
High temperatures & low dewpoints above the inversion again on mountain tops
Someone must have thought the high temperatures from the SIESAWS observations on Cairngorm were spurious today because the UKMO have pulled them from their …
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16.7°C on Cairngorm
Another lovely crystal clear sunny day across Easter Ross and you can just make out Loch Ussie and the Cat’s back from the EODIS …
Milder air arrives on the mountains
Temperatures are around eleven degrees warmer this afternoon than they were yesterday on Aonach Mor close to Ben Nevis. I can imagine that the …
11 Feb 2021 – maximum temperatures
The maximum at Altnaharra today was just -6.2°C today and it’s already been down to -12°C this evening. I realise that the wind is …
Altnaharra doesn’t look anything like that!
The BBC lunchtime news read by Reeta Chakrabarti made me smile when Reeta mentioned that the coldest place had been -16.7°C in some places …
Anticyclonic Easterlies in winter aren’t what they used to be…
It seems that anticyclonic easterlies in winter aren’t quite what they used to be these days. Compare today’s 12 UTC observations with those of …
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Models still not in touch with reality
The models at 09 UTC this morning seemed to be divorced from the reality of the situation when you compare what they are forecasting …
That’s not exactly what the Met Office are saying Sarah
In the lunchtime weather forecast on BBC 1 Sarah Keith-Lucas started her forecast by saying that the Met Office had issued an amber warning …
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2 Feb 2021 – 14 cm snow overnight at Bingley
It just shows you just how short a spell of moderate to heavy snow you need to put down a quick six inches of …
How low will it go?
It’s been a third day of sunshine across northern Scotland and it’s going to be another very cold night once again across the Highlands. …
Cold, but not quite cold enough
There maybe snow falling on the hills above 300 M amsl in Wales, and the higher parts of the Chilterns and Cotswolds, but the …
Perfect skiing conditions in Scotland
A combination of deep powdered snow, light winds, blue skies and lots of sunshine would normally see thousands of skiers take to the slopes …
Loch Shin and the Cuillins
In today’s visible image from the NASA MODIS satellite the seventeen mile Loch Shin in Sutherland and the the snow covered Cuillins in Skye …