9 Apr 2021 – Snow covered NW Highlands
It’s a little hard to distinguish between the tops of the shallow cumulonimbus clouds in the air from the snow that’s lying on the …
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9 Apr 2021 – 07 UTC analysis
Simple enough analysis this morning across IONA. A beautiful sunny morning across the south and east of Scotland and much of northern England. Cold …
5 Apr 2021 – 12 UTC cold day everywhere
It is a cold day everywhere across IONA today (5 April) with negative anomalies from all stations. It’s not just quite as cold in …
One snow shower after the other
There has been a steady stream of snow showers streaming down in the northwesterly airstream this morning in the Strath. Perhaps five or ten …
Mr Occlusions been at it again
Just when you thought that the analysis couldn’t be any simpler, cold front coming down from the north introducing Arctic maritime air, Mr Occlusion …
3 Apr 2021 – Sunshine for some…
It’s been a lovely sunny morning in the Strath after an early touch of frost and temperatures on our north facing wall are close …
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 …
I beg to differ Darren
Darren Bett reckons that the biggest change in the weather today across the UK was across the east coast of England, where thanks to …
31 Mar 2021 – Cloud free Alps
Central parts of Europe have seen some beautiful sunny weather over the last few days.Looking back through the EODIS archives I see that this …
Moray Firth hole
I now realise that I should have got out today and headed east to the Black Isle. Although it’s been mild and bright at …
Fractals in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania
It has been a lovely sunny day across Romania today as you can see in the visible satellite image from NASA.The dendritic outlines of …
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Cloudy for most, chilly – a great week for the rest of us
Yes it’s been a quiet and boring week of weather as far as Tomasz Schafernaker was concerned, and which he kept reminding us of …
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The kiss of death
Despite what both the latest visible satellite imagery and observations are saying here in Strathpeffer it’s been a fine and sunny right from dawn …
18 Mar 2021 – exceptionally mild in eastern Scotland
Another lovely afternoon with long sunny spells across much of eastern Scotland with anomalies this lunchtime as close as ten degrees above the 1981-2010 …
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Convergence line or old occlusion?
Chris Fawkes thinks that the line of showers aligned NW-SE across central England this morning has been brought about as the result of a …
12 Mar 2021 – Etna eruption
Although this visible image of Mount Etna erupting was taken yesterday I couldn’t help including it because it looked so dramatic. If you look …
Von Kármán vortices
I am very envious of Dakota Smith’s job at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in America. He seems to have unfettered access to …
Why do we make such little use of satellite imagery in TV forecasts?
Why do we so little use made of the latest satellite imagery in our TV weather forecasts instead of relying so heavily on NWP …
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Late frost as cloud clears
A textbook example of a late frost in the North of Scotland this morning with Loch Glascarnoch dropping to -6.5°C at 07 UTC as …
Stubborn Moray Firth cloud refuses to budge
A strange area of low cloud in the inner Moray Firth today refuses to budge today. It’s quite detached from the real haar like …
2 Mar 2021 – low cloud
Just a quick look at this morning’s low cloud that has invaded from the North Sea overnight in the visible satellite images. The height …
1 Mar 2021 – anomalies, inversions and ship trails
The low stratus and haar feeding in the easterly flow from the North Sea into eastern England has certainly produced some low temperatures and …
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16.7°C on Cairngorm
Another lovely crystal clear sunny day across Easter Ross and you can just make out Loch Ussie and the Cat’s back from the EODIS …
27 Feb 2021 – bright sunshine
Another glorious sunny day across IONA resembling early April rather than late February. The UKMO’s incredibly shrinking warm front was still in evidence across …