The obvious thing that Pinaki Chakraborty has forgotten to factor into his study – in which he finds that hurricanes now take 33 rather than 17 hours to weaken when they make landfall – is that …
It is probably a total coincidence, but the colder SST anomalies that invaded our western Atlantic shores from late June did seem to coincide with the poor July across the country.
These wonderful SST products (above) that I’ve been downloading and using for year from this National Center for Ocean Forecasting [NCOF] website, maintained for them by the Met Office, have unfortunately stopped being produced from the …
I thought that I would try out the new WordPress compare widget with images of the North Atlantic SST anomalies with the latest from September 2nd 2020 and those of September 18th last year. The cold …
For the last three days the haar that’s been adffecting the east coast of England and Scotland has been stubborn to clear. Here in easter Ross it took till almost tea time yesterday before it finally …
In just six weeks a new SST hotspot has erupted in the North Pacific. I seem to remember a similar hotspot appeared before and quite recently. It maybe that the warmer water to the south back …
The cold blob in the central North Atlantic has grown in size and intensified a little since July of last year, and the cooler waters have extended westward towards Ireland. In the meantime the waters around …
Here are the latest SST charts for around the UK in a little more detail than Meteogroup could manage, perhaps they thought that the extra detail might be a distraction and the intelligence of the average …
If warmer oceans have anything to do with more frequent and more powerful hurricanes, then this years high SST anomalies might well put that hypothesis to the test. The Atlantic off the coast of Africa, is …
There seems to be no respite in the exceptional warmth that we have seen across much of Europe, Scandinavia and western Russia this winter. Mean temperature anomalies for the first thirteen days of March are close …
All we need now is a warm blob to suddenly occur of the coast of Japan and for Godzilla to make an appearance!
A closer look at the South Pacific hot spot off the east coast of New Zealand
Is it time to bring Captain Nemo or perhaps Troy Tempest out of retirement to investigate the cause of the latest warm blob in the Pacific ocean?
It’s always puzzled me why the Met Office makes no effort to display a chart of the sea surface temperatures around the coast of this sceptred Isles.
The North Atlantic cold blob has turned into a warm but what does it mean for our 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 …
