Showers in north as air mass cools
After finally seeing the back of that old cold front I never expected to see showers following on so quickly behind during this afternoon.
Satellite
It seems like years since it’s been clear!
Apologies for pinching a line from George Harrison, but after being stuck under this meandering cold front for the last five days across the north of Scotland, we have finally managed to pop out on the cold side of it – at least for awhile. I wonder if...
Cloud busting
Hopefully the stubborn cloud that’s been plaguing the northwest of Scotland for the last five days will finally start to break up in situ as high pressure builds down from the northwest. I say breakup because I don’t think that the frontal system that’s responsible for it is...
Here’s the latest view from space showing where’s it’s sunny and where it’s cloudy…
Apologies for the title. I am just trying to give you a flavor of how we are being talked down to by any number of so called ‘experts’ or ‘scientists’ in recent weeks. The title is from a tweet by the Met Office press team in regard to...
Where has all today’s upper cloud come from?
I can’t quite understand where a lot of today’s upper cloud seems to have come from across the UK. The laser cloud base recorders [LCBR] don’t seem to be able to pick it up and none of the SYNOP observations from across the country are reporting it. I...
Equinox sunshine
The vernal equinox occurred precisely at 0349 UTC this morning and to help celebrate the fact it’s been another sunny start with Mediterranean blue skies across many northern parts of the country. Pressure has continued to build strongly overnight and the barometer has now topped 1037 hPa across...
Déjà vu all over again
Another bright morning across much of the north of the UK, the vortex that was to the northwest of Scotland yesterday, has now transferred eastward into Norway and another one replaced it, in fact the situation is very similar to one 24 hours earlier. Why is it that...
18 March 2020 – 09 UTC Satellite
At last a dry and sunny morning here in the northeast of Scotland for change, but that’s not likely to last for very long.
Why do we put up with such poor resolution satellite imagery in TV weather forecasts?
I am afraid that area of cloud over a large part of Scotland are in fact the snow covered mountains of Scotland Tomasz. As usual the weathercasters make very little of this quirk of nature that is snow which happens every winter across Scotland. The poor resolution highly...
Make that four
This is the fourth day of sunshine and light winds across the Highlands, it’s been cold by night with frosts at night, but mild and sunny by day. It’s a real tonic after enduring such a wet February of raw winds and snow that never seemed to want...
We’re on a roll
We must be on some kind of a roll in this part of Northern Scotland, because that make it three dry and sunny morning’s we’ve had in a row.
Almost spring like
It’s been a lovely sunny morning in our part of the world. I have noticed some of the best weather in the Highlands can occur when the pressure is below 1000 hPa as it is now, it seems to be often cloudy when pressure is above 1020 hPa....
NWP models having problems with cloud even though barometers are set very dry
It’s certainly turned a little more ‘hazy’ across our part of the world this morning or should that be ‘overcast’?
