23-24 May 2021 – rainfall
Another wet 24 hours or so across IONA, that is away from some parts of Eastern England. A little surprised that there is no …
Warnings
Low Marco – wind analysis
I know its still very windy across the south early this afternoon, and this may analysis may be a little premature, but here it …
Marco so far
The extreme wind gusts from low Marco around the coast this evening have been getting up to around 70 mph. Looking at the ICON …
UKMO playing hardball with Marco
The UKMO have had to extend their yellow wind warning for strong winds to cover more of north Wales. You would think they would …
Friday’s forecast gusts from low Marco
The wind gusts from low Marco on Friday look in low 50 knot kind of area for Wales at 06 UTC, before transferring eastward …
Met Office get caught out by heavy rain in own backyard
The results from NWP models these days are truly astounding, but just very occasionally weather services can get caught out even in the short …
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8-9 May 2021 – Rainfall
The yellow warning of heavy rain across south Wales was well forecast by the NWP of the UKMO. A few clusters of orange pixels …
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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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, …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Way over the top from the UKMO
I don’t dispute that rainfall accumulations could approach 250 mm across western parts of Scotland on Monday and Tuesday, but the video of the …
Missed warning
It seems the Met Office must have exceeded their quota of yellow wind warnings because the peak gusts overnight, which were higher than those …
The mysterious vanishing warning
This is an odd one. I went to check the Met office warnings for today and noticed that the strong wind warning that was …
UKMO Rovers 1 Meteogroup United 1
I realise the yellow warning for strong wind runs until 15 UTC, so call these charts the preliminary results from storm Klaus (with a …
Who says just how windy it’s going to get – BBC Meteogroup or the UKMO?
The BBC Meteogroup weathercasters just can’t seem to agree on just how windy it’ll get later today and tomorrow across the UK. Meteogroup are …
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