North Atlantic SST – comparison with last year
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 …
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Haar, haar, haar
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 …
SST hotspot erupts in North Pacific
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 …
Cold blob extends and intensifies
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 …
Just how cold is the North Sea at the moment?
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 …
April SST and the 2020 hurricane season
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 …
The warmth continues
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 …
Second Pacific warm blob
All we need now is a warm blob to suddenly occur of the coast of Japan and for Godzilla to make an appearance!
South Pacific Hot Spot
A closer look at the South Pacific hot spot off the east coast of New Zealand
Return of the blob
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?
Britain a proud seafaring nation with no idea of what the sea temperature is
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.
North Atlantic cold blob turns warm
The North Atlantic cold blob has turned into a warm but what does it mean for our weather?
Recent North Atlantic SST
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 …