A few bones to pick with today’s BBC forecast…
Just a few bones to pick with today’s BBC forecast brought to us by Helen Willets which I couldn’t help but get off my …
Stations
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 …
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. …
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 …
26-27 Jan 2021 – minimum of -8.3°C at Baltasound
The UKMO most northerly weather station can be found at Baltasound on the Isle of Unst, part of the Shetland Isles. Surprisingly last nights …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Another frost at Loch Glascarnoch
Second night in a row for an air frost at Loch Glascarnoch and the fourth their this autumn. That figure could have been a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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Successive coldest nights of the autumn
I wonder just how much affect a thick veil of cirrostratus at 17,000 feet had on overnight minimums across Scotland?
3 November wind analysis
The Needles – the perfect place if you want to know what the wind speed is at the edge of a high cliff facing into the wind!
Rest in peace Gravesend-Broadness
I’m sorry for this late peice of sad news – but I’ve only just heard about the demise of the much loved AWS at Gravesend-Broadness.