passionate about weather
The cold pool in the central western Atlantic just about managed to survive through the winter of 2018/19. Meanwhile in the eastern Atlantic, North Sea, Baltic and Norwegian SST anomalies are already well above normal by April. This animation I’ve cobbled together from the map room at the IRI.
The xmetman.com site contains a miscellany of articles about weather and climate from across the UK and the world. I worked at the Met Office for a good many years – hence the xmetman – until I retired in 2011. I will be the first to admit that I have no formal qualifications in meteorology or statistics, so take what I say with a pinch of salt. Having said that, I put a lot of hard work into researching the many articles I write, and into developing the applications that I use to generate the graphics for those articles in an effort to make them as accurate as I can. I hope what you find is of interest and that you’ll return again or even take out a subscription.