Living life on the edge
Exeter are obviously confident that they’ve plumped for the right area to issue a yellow strong wind warning for – East Anglia for tomorrow rather than one for the southwest for today. It’s the same feature …
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A proclivity to use the word “cool”
As we head into autumn we are constantly being bombarded by the term cool by weathercasters on TV rather than them using the word cold. Tomasz Schafernaker has even gone so far as to rename cold …
A peculiar penchant for bent back occlusions
There’s a certain chief forecaster, or maybe a group of them, that have a peculiar penchant for bent back occlusions, and like nothing better than shoe horning one or two into their analysis or forecast charts. …
Very British Weather – released to coincide with the 33rd anniversary of the great storm
The Met Office are certainly not shy when it comes to describing themselves as the ‘world’s greatest forecasters’ a topic that’s open to debate, and one that the French, Germans and maybe the Norwegians have something …
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What kind of Autumn are we in for?
What kind of autumn are we in for in 2020? We are well overdue a cold one, but the way the autumn has already started this looks highly unlikely except for some parts of the north. …
This weekend’s heavy rain
I will let you be the judge of just how accurate the third Met Office warning was for this weekend’s rain. If you believe the estimated accumulations from weather radar it maybe should have been extended …
More gobbledygook from the Met Office
This morning the Met Office updated their yellow warning of heavy rain for western Scotland for later on Saturday and through into Sunday. The reason for their update, as far as I can make out is …
A wet weekend ahead for some, dry and warmer for others
I shouldn’t imagine the weather this weekend will be too good if you’re on holiday stuck in Fort William this weekend. With the wind and all the rain this has all the hallmarks of a local …
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Where do they get these names from?
“Now coming in to its sixth year, the Name our Storms collaboration has been helping to raise awareness of the potential impacts of severe weather before it arrives. Similar to previous years, the 2020/2021 list has …
27 August 2020 – Heavy rain & thunderstorms
Yesterday was a strange kind of weather day as low ‘Lynn’ deepened across the south producing a lot of thunderstorms and heavy rain in the process. As you may know if you are a regular reader …
Just what kind of feature is this?
Just what kind of feature is this? Answers on a postcard please. It would be so good if the UKMO released the SR (Synoptic Review) part two (if there still is such a bulletin) to answer …
The odd warning of heavy rain for central and southeast England *updated*
The Met Office have issued a rather odd yellow warning of heavy rain for the southeast and central southern England at 1100 BST valid for the period 1130 till 1900 BST today. I say odd because …
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Storm Francis – Wind
A few more observational details regarding the winds on the 25th August 2020 associated with storm Francis
All in all storm Francis was a bit of a damp squib
By the end of Tuesday the highest gusts inland where generally if not exclusively in the 50 to 60 mph yellow range rather than in the 60 to 70 mph amber category that was forecast. There …
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Stonehaven train crash looks likely to become another casualty of global warming
It looks highly likely that Network Rail are going to put the blame for the Stonehaven rail crash on climate change. It seems that climate change is fast becoming the whipping boy, and the first port …
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Storm Ellen and Francis – products of global warming?
Right on cue, and very much as I anticipated yesterday (see fishy smell), the Guardian published an article about storm Francis hinting at a link between storm Ellen and storm Francis to global warming. The Guardian …
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Amber warning issued – now Francis is a pukka storm!
Someone down at EX1 must have been reading the criticism I made yesterday regarding named storms always being linked with the issuing of an amber and not a yellow warning for wind. The reason I say …
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Met Office lowers threshold for named storms to increase their number
Remember you read it here first If you remember on Saturday I posted that Tuesday’s low might end up being named storm Francis, and for once, because I’ve often attempted this, I was correct. But I …
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What track will storm Francis take?
What track will Storm Francis take? I’m already fairly positive that Met Eireann won’t take any chances naming Tuesday’s extratropical storm Francis as it whizzes across IONA, if they don’t what the hell. The intensity of …
I wish I had a pound for everytime the Needles registered the highest gust
It has been a very windy day for August across England and Wales today thanks to storm Ellen, with the southwesterly wind generally blowing force six occasionally seven at times. According to Louise Lear the Needles …
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Quite surprised there’s no yellow warning out for heavy rain this afternoon
I am quite surprised that the UKMO haven’t taken the trouble to issue a yellow warning for heavy rain this afternoon, at least across Northern Ireland. Estimated accumulations of 10 mm in the space of 30 …
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How to improve the visualisation of monthly ATD lightning activity data from the Met Office
This has got to be one of the worst examples of a map of climate statistics that you will ever see. It attempts to show every flash of lightning that occurred during June 2020, and believe …
Emphasis switches to south coast as Ellen does a 48 hour long pirouette over Ireland
It looks like the strongest of the winds from Storm Ellen will now affect the south coast of Ireland later this evening (T+24) rather than the northwest if this hires ECMWF model is correct. That’s not …
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