North south split
I so do hate that old cliche from Michael Fish, but what the hell it seems to work for today’s wide range of temperatures …
Satellite
12 Jan 2021 – visible satellite image
There’s still some snow visible across the northeast of Scotland, and there’s a slight dusting on the Cheviots and northern Pennines by the look …
Heavy snow in Japan
There has been heavy snowfall up to 3.13 metres deep along the west coast of Japan in recent days which has led to the …
8 January 2021 – visible satellite image
I was just a little bit too busy yesterday to check out the visible satellite image of the snow cover across Scotland from NASA …
6 January 2020 11 UTC – visible satellite image
Another great satellite image today of IONA and western Europe. Fabulously sunny morning across the snowfields of the Scottish Highlands this morning but frontal …
4 January 2020 – visible satellite
A great visible satellite image today. Snow over Norway and the Highlands, with showers streaming of the North Sea thanks to the instability from …
2 January 2021 – snow extent
A great visible image of the extent of the snow cover across the north today thanks to NASA Worldview and despite the thin patches …
Funny that…
Here is my analysis cum nephanalysis of the plotted chart for 10 UTC this morning. The snow across the high ground of Scotland is …
Stornoway wind veer
The gale force northerly wind that’s been blowing for seven straight hours at Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis with frequent gusts to 49 …
Winter Solstice
The winter solstice takes place on Monday, 21st of December 2020 at 10:02 UTC A feature of the weather so far today has been the massive shield …
Shadow of the cold front
A terrific visible satellite image this morning of the cold front thats currently draped north south across the country.
A nice head on it
The low that will being strong winds to Ireland has a lovely comma shaped cap of high cloud around it at 45N 18W at …
3 December 2020 – 1200 UTC
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 …
Showers “turning increasingly wintry” as cold air “digs in”
Why is it that according to weathercasters on TV showers in winter are often described as turning increasingly wintry ? Logically as the freezing …
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Heatstroke, sunburn AND windburn all in one go !!
The spring is warming up down under with temperatures of 40°C and 10 minute mean wind speeds of 30 knots or more at Sydney …
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28 November 2020 – 12 UTC
A lovely autumn day across our part of Scotland after some early morning fog in the strath.Drier air is spreading into the southeast from …
Fog in Exeter catches Met Office out
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 …
Fog or no fog?
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 …
Warm front but where’s the warm sector?
Admittedly there’s a load of orographic rainfall affecting the west of Scotland at the moment but I don’t see any evidence of any change …
Well over 80 mm already…
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 …
Another lovely autumnal morning across the Highlands
A large range of temperatures across the country this morning, with minima no lower than 11°C across the Islands, but close to freezing in …
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Global 3D Satellite Web App
I came across this Global satellite image viewer from NESDIS and NOAA built using ESRI GIS on the internet recently. It allows you to …