Yesterday was what the Scot’s term dreich and it certainly was in Easter Ross. The northeast of Scotland was in the firing line for yet some more wet weather coming in from the east with accumulations …
Recent accumulations of rain and snow in northeast Scotland Read More »
I wonder what Joe Public will make of this plethora of yellow warnings from the Met Office? The latest issued at 1529 UTC is for heavy rain for the period 0600 to 2359 UTC tomorrow and …
This is the first chance that I’ve had to look at the reasons behind this mornings amended snow warning from the Met Office. It looks like snow showers penetrated much further eastward than earlier was anticipated, …
A beautiful frosty day in our part of northeast Scotland today with temperatures still reading -1°C, down here in the dip, this lunchtime. There was a light dusting of snow overnight to lower levels, but the …
The Chief Forecaster – aka as the Great and powerful Oz – down in deepest Devon has spoken, well to be honest the Met Office have just issued a snow warning for Scotland for Friday, but …
The gale force winds that looked likely to clip the southeast of England on Friday in yesterday’s model runs have now been forecast to occur much further south across various parts of France depending on which …
It looks likely to be quite an eventful week ahead weatherwise across IONA. A mix of cyclonic cold air with sub 528 dm thicknesses for a while brought about by an extending trough. It could be …
An eventful week ahead weatherwise – storm Bella perhaps by Friday? Read More »
It’s difficult to fathom the logic in how the Met Office treat dense fog in their warnings system. All that fuss earlier this week about fog and then when its just as widespread this morning they …
Since the ECMWF started freed up more of their NWP climate data I’ve been making good use of their long-range 42 day forecast charts for temperature anomalies. I now have my doubts about just how just …
As suspected yesterday afternoon the area of fog outlined in the Met Office’s yellow warning extended too far north, and even though they issued the warning late (1332 UTC) they didn’t factor in the SC sheet …
It will be interesting to see just how much the SC sheet that’s feeding in from the northwest will interfere with the formation of the widespread fog that’s anticipated for later this evening and overnight. NWP …
I was told recently that the Met Office worked hand in glove with the EA and SEPA regarding heavy rainfall events to coordinate the issuing of warnings to the public about possible flooding.Obviously with the rainfall …
With still more rain to come across western Scotland in the next 24 hours, it’s surprising to see that no yellow warning has been issued for the chances of flooding from the heavy rain that’s already …
Surprised UKMO haven’t issued a warning of heavy rain for western Scotland Read More »
Admittedly there’s a load of orographic rainfall affecting the west of Scotland at the moment but I don’t see any evidence of any change of airmass since yesterday. The analysis from the UKMO seems to be …
Another wet couple of days in what’s turning out to be a very wet month across western Scotland. I’ve added the approximate area of the yellow warning for heavy rain to my estimated accumulations map, in …
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 …
Quite a good forecast in their yellow warning of heavy rain for southeast England – who says I only slag the Met Office off?Perhaps I’m starting to mellow after nine years?
The mid-range forecast from the UKMO once again seems to have lost touch with the reality of the weather across the UK than usual. Their forecast issued at 04 UTC this morning for the ten day …
Met Office mid-range forecast even more out of touch with reality than usual Read More »
Increased likelihood of impacts from the heavy rain and also to extend the warning into the early hours of Thursday.The band of rain will persist throughout Wednesday, easing and clearing eastwards into the early hours of …
According to the latest hires ECMWF model, although the first part of this week will be generally mild and benign it does forecast a couple of lows that will rush northeastward across the country on Thursday …
According to the ECMWF long range model, 2M temperatures in November will continue to be very mild across the UK and NW Europe until the last week of November before returning to normal. Temperatures will continue …
A very mild November followed by a colder December Read More »
