What’s this 15 cm of partly cloudy in my Garden?
The Met Office got caught out by an area of snow over higher ground that moved south late yesterday evening from northern Scotland. The …
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Shockingly poor 42 day temperature forecast from the ECMWF for April
A shockingly poor 42 day long range forecast for 2M temperature anomalies across Europe for April from the ECMWF. They did have area of …
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Low Eugen – Winds
The highest gust from low Eugen was 76 mph at Capel Curig early yesterday afternoon, closely followed by the 74 mph at the Mumbles …
Low Eugen – precipitation accumulations
There wasn’t a yellow warning issued by the Met Office for heavy rain from low Eugen, but I think that there should have been, …
A cold May ahead
Why I still put any trust in the long range 2M temperature forecasts from the ECMWF with their recent run of dreadful predictions God …
Since records began in 1960 – really?
It amazing to discover that we’ve only been adding the number of days of frost that occur each month since 1960. That’s according to …
Frostiest April for at least 60 years in UK
The Met Office have just caught up on the fact that it’s been rather frosty this month, and quick as a flash on the …
This billion-dollar supercomputer will create super-accurate weather forecasts
As usual the latest supercomputer is x number of times faster that the present incumbent, in this latest iteration let x equal six. The …
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Lamb circulation indices, sine waves and that missed named storm
This is an infographic of the climate indices drawn from the objective Lamb Weather type data for the last four months since the 16th …
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The mysterious disappearing warm front
As you know I get quite agitated by some of the analyses that the UKMO come up with in their six hourly fax charts. …
“Wintry showers” causing problems further south
If anything last night was colder than Friday night, lighter winds meant better conditions for radiative cooling, allowing people further south to experience the …
Recycled Yellow warnings
If this warning of snow and strong winds from the Met Office looks familiar it should do, it’s very similar to the ones they …
How to shave 16 years off the date we reach +1.5°C without breaking a sweat
I apologise to any of my 48 subscribers who might take exception to another post about global temperatures. The scientists and media will tell …
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Spot the mistake…
I don’t know what the Great Oz was thinking when he drew the 18 UTC analysis chart up this evening. Addendum Interestingly this chart …
6 Apr 2021 – Gust to 62 knots at Baltasound at 14 UTC
A gusts of 62 knots in the force nine N’NW’ly gale at Baltasound as that strange little synoptic feature ran southward to the east …
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Spare a though for those in the far north
Spare a though for those who live in the far north, and by that I mean the northern Isles. They’ve seen a severe spell …
Met Office see sense
The Met Office have finally seen sense and decided this morning to include the Northern Isles in their weather warnings of snow and strong …
So this was a cold front
The Met Office reckon that this rather persistent band of stratocumulus base ~4,000 feet and aligned NW-SE across Scotland was a cold front undergoing …
Met Office – say one thing and do another
This is a classic example of media hype from the Met Office press team regarding climate data. The article is about the upcoming two …
Sunday’s snow warning oddities
Well the Met Office are quick off the mark, moving like oiled silk, to issue a snow warning from 18 UTC on Sunday evening …
A cold April to come?
I have not found the 42 day long range 2 M temperature forecasts from the ECMWF particularly accurate in the past, but I thought …
28/29 Mar 2021 – Rainfall on Scafell Pike
The heaviest of the orographic rain that fell yesterday was concentrated over the Cumbian fells once again. Despite this the Met Office had no …
27-28 Mar 2021 – A breezy 24 hours
In weathercaster speak it’s been a rather breezy 24 hours across IONA. Met Eireann did have a warning out for the strong winds yesterday, …
27-28 Mar 2021 – Accumulated precipitation
The deep purple pixels indicate that there has been as much as 70 mm of rainfall (estimated) in the last 24 hours across the …