I did wonder why I had to make changes to one of my software applications and realised that it was because the UKMO had changed the map that they use to draw their climate data on, …
Displaying Shetland in a box on maps is now banned by law on official documents Read More »
The Met Office eventually did modify their yellow wind warning for strong wind which they originally had issued on Friday morning, but it took them till 0827 BST this morning to do it! That meant the …
Wendy not that windy as Met Office modify their warning Read More »
The various models have got their knickers in a twist about how low Wendy will develop overnight as it runs eastward across Scotland. The latest consensus from four of the worlds NWP models is that it …
The values of the maximum rainfall accumulations in their amended and shortened yellow warning for heavy rain look fairly reasonable, maybe totals were a little higher over the highest ground across Argyl, but they forgot to …
The latest NWP forecasts do show a strong potential for a spell of severe gales across the northern Scotland on Sunday morning. Let’s see if the UKMO sit this one out as they so often do …
The old occlusion (in all reality a cold front) that has been edging south for the last 36 hours or so has refused to die gracefully, and has deposited as much as 40 to 50 mm …
Something doesn’t quite add up here. The UKMO are being quite upbeat about the prospects for the rest of July in their long range forecast, but the midnight run of the ECMWF hi-res model in contrast …
Author: Met Office Press Office 16:00 (UTC+1) on Tue 30 Jun 2020 Towards the end of the century parts of the UK could see 40°C days every 3-4 years on average under a high emissions scenario. A …
Results from my rainfall estimates from weather radar were a bit mixed over the last 30 hours. My estimate for Capel Curig was too high whilst the estimate for Keswick was on the low side. That’s …
I notice that the yellow warning for heavy rain has been updated by the Met Office to cover the north and west of Scotland. Wise move, as it’s already been bucketing down here in the strath …
“We quite often see warm southerly air from the continent bringing these high temperatures to the UK in summer, however this week the air across the UK has arrived from the Atlantic. This Atlantic air will …
In a way to cheer up the nations spirit after what has been a dreadful week of summer weather across the UK, with thunderstorms and monsoon like conditions across much of the south, the Met Office …
Met Office put positive spin on next weeks weather Read More »
Thursday was easily the wettest day of the last week of thundery weather across IONA, and as far as I can see none of the rain that fell across the southwest was the result of thunderstorms. …
There are no flies on the Met Office this week. Quick as a flash they’ve latched on to the main theme of this week’s weather, there’ve been some thunderstorms around! And just to let us know …
It is not very often that we get three thundery days in a row across IONA, so this one is a little exceptional in that regard, and who knows it might extend to four or five …
Whatever mesoscale model the UKMO are using to predict where and when thunderstorms are likely to break out looks like it requires some tweaking, because this is the second day it’s missed thunderstorms that have formed …
I did wonder if yesterday evening’s thunderstorms that spread northwest across the heart of central England were ever going to materialise, but they finally make it across northwest England at around 19 UTC. It’s notoriously difficult …
I was only remarking in a recent post that the UKMO never seem to identify any quasi-stationary fronts these days on it’s analysis or forecast fax charts, so I was very surprised to see this morning …
The elusive quasi-stationary front makes a rare reappearance Read More »
The usual imprecise long range forecast for the rest of June into the start of July from the Met Office, but I do detect a slightly more pessimistic tone in the words of their changeable forecast. …
It is rather uncommon to see a spell of moderate rain with pressure over 1030 hPa but it’s forecast to happen overnight across northern Scotland. There seems to be no end to these kind of scenarios …
So high pressure is in charge is it? The proverbial fly in the ointment Read More »
Highest rainfall accumulations in the Lochaber region of Scotland for the last 40 hours or so (since 18 UTC on the 21st of May) indicate that there has been between 175 and 200 mm of rainfall …
The winds are quite lively over parts of England and Wales this afternoon. I wonder if the UKMO are now regretting not taking low Gudrun a little bit more seriously and extending their yellow warning area …
I can’t understand why the UKMO were so reluctant to issue a yellow warning for strong winds for later this afternoon for western Scotland. The NWP models have all been very consistent about how low Gudrun …
So the UKMO finally issue a yellow warning for strong wind for Friday, but they reckon that gusts of 50 to 60 mph will only affect Northern Ireland and nowhere else? Obviously they know more than …