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 …
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 …
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 »
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?
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 …
The winds of Sunday never quite matched up to those on Halloween. For all my huffing and puffing the Met Office were right to stay yellow, even if there was a gust to 82 mph at …
The southwesterly wind, which touched storm force 10 briefly late yesterday afternoon, is increasing once again across South Uist and is currently blowing severe gale force 9 with gusts to 61 knots at 14 UTC. It’s …
Despite getting the extent of yesterday’s yellow warning for strong winds all wrong, the Met Office have refused to tweak and update their initial warning that they issued on Friday morning. They must be very confident …
How high do gusts have to get before the Met Office issues an amber warning? Read More »
It seems like the Met Office not only have problems with high winds in the Highlands and Islands, they also seem to have problems working out where it’ll be wettest too. I’ve seen them do the …
Todays yellow warning of heavy rain for Scotland Read More »
All in all a frightful Halloween for the Met Office, with a large parts of the Highlands and Islands excluded from their yellow strong wind warning seeing gusts as high as 79 mph at Altnaharra and …
Halloween storm remains a yellow and not an amber warning according to the Met Office Despite forecasting possible gusts of 75 mph across the Western Isles on All Hallows Eve, the Met Office are sticking to …
I was under the distinct impression that yesterday’s yellow warning for heavy rain for western districts was in force till midnight tonight. The crafty buggers down at the Met Office seem to have made it disappear …
I can’t understand why the Met Office left it until the last minute again to issue a yellow warning for wind and heavy rain for the southeast after watching a series of line convection squalls embedded …
I should have realised long before now that it’s impossible to fathom the logic that lies behind the Met Office warning system because there simply isn’t any. For example the Met Office issued a yellow warning …
The Morayshire warning I must say that the amounts quoted in yesterday’s yellow warning of heavy rain from 1600 BST till 0800 BST this morning for Morayshire were justified. Having said that a heavy rain warning …