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 …
Warnings
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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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 …
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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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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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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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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Joint warning for the whole of Ireland for Thursday
It is nice to see at least one of the national Met Services in this part of the world being grown up about weather warnings these days as Met Eireann now display warnings for both the …
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A taste of what’s to come this Autumn?
The one thing that you can never say about the weather across IONA is that it’s ever boring. After an eight day heat wave across England comes to a thundery end, a taste of maybe what’s …
Second amber warning of thunderstorms
A second amber warning has been issued by the Met Office for thunderstorms this afternoon, this one for western areas of England and Wales, but unlike last nights amber warning which they got out in good …
Heatwave goes out with a bang as Met Office issue thunderstorm warnings for the next five days in the south
One of Jimmy Greaves favourite expression was that football was “a funny old game” and I’m sure the same expression could be equally applied to describe the weather so far in August 2020. The Met Office …
Four inches of rain across Fife overnight
My estimates from weather radar images suggest that there has been around four inches of rain from severe thunderstorms in a belt that stretches northward from Edinburgh, across the Firth of Forth then on into Fife …
10 August – where the rain fell and the thunder rolled
It certainly pelted it down close to Blackpool yesterday evening with estimated rainfall accumulations from the thunderstorms in excess of 80 mm. If two flashes in Perthshire count then the Met Office got a hit for …
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Drat – missed it!
The UKMO mesoscale model seems to be floundering with these thunderstorms at the moment, it’s no wonder the Met Office have had to issue blanket yellow thunderstorm warnings for the entire UK for the next three …
Uncertain about where and when thunderstorms will occur? Then why issue a warning!
A third update to the ongoing saga of the thunderstorms that are forecast for coming week. It seems that the UKMO have now narrowed the area down a bit, but are still uncertain about the location …
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The Met Office and lightning
The yellow thunderstorm warning issued yesterday to cover Monday and Tuesday by the UKMO, has now been tweaked again and extended to cover Wednesday next week. I am not sure what the point of most of …
Met Office covering all their bases
The Met Office are certainly intent on covering all their bases with two separate (!) 24 hour yellow warnings for thunderstorms next Monday and Tuesday. I have no idea what merit they is in putting out …
A tale of three warnings
I have never seen a warning specifically issued for the Shetland Isles before, and that includes strong winds, but the Met Office in their wisdom decided to issue one specifically for them for just 20 to …
Wendy not that windy as Met Office modify their warning
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 …
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Models back off with Wendy
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 …