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 at Eskdalemuir. That might have been the case once upon a time …
Stations
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 Aultbea but 3.5 km to the northwest at a place with the …
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 from the SYNOP observations that I download. Suffice it to say the …
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 whole lot higher this last week if it hadn’t been such 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 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 …
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 …
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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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.