Satellite with MSLP overlay
I spent some time this morning producing a viewer to display MSLP isobars on top of a combined visible and satellite image. It shows the sheltering effect of the mountains in the west Scotland and north …
Satellite
Far too pessimistic a forecast for Saturday across Scotland
Nick Miller was far too pessimistic in his forecast for this weekend on Friday evening. Saturday, especially across parts of the west coast and Highlands has proved to be another dry, bright day with sunny spells.
The Folgefonna glaciers
That is not a bit of cloud that my yellow arrow is pointing to in southern Norway in the image above, that’s the Folgefonna glaciers. I noticed it in today’s visible satellite image, even though I …
Last night’s curious low
An interesting night over the north of Scotland with an early evening minimum of just 1°C (~1900 UTC) at Loch Glascarnoch, before the clouds rolled in from the west ahead of a small but vigorous low …
Hurricane Delta
Will Delta make a right turn? The 2020 North Atlantic tropical cyclone has sprung back into life after a quite spell with a couple of new tropical storms. One of these, tropical cyclone Delta has been …
A beautiful autumnal morning
At last we have a morning that we can crow about across the north of Scotland for once this September. Blue skies and sunshine with sub zero temperatures on the highest tops and cold enough despite …
Haar down the Great Glen
We can’t seem to win this week across Easter Ross what with a pesky sheet of high base stratocumulus plaguing us for much of it, and then when it finally does clear, in comes the haar …
Medicane Ianos
The medicane/cyclone which I have watching for the last couple of days has now been given the name of Ianos by somebody or other and has moved a little faster in the last 24 hours than …
Medicane in the Med?
There are reports that a low to the southeast of Sicily in the Mediterranean sea may evolve into a ‘medicane’ as it tracks northeast towards Greece towards the weekend. At the moment there was only a …
Orographic upper cloud shadow
There looks to be a shadow being cast across western Scotland caused by what I guess can only be thick orographic upper and medium level cloud in the westerly flow. Elsewhere you can just about pick …
Top of the shop
Rather fittingly for the first day of meteorological autumn a number of nearby stations across the north of Scotland are in the top ten warmest places on what is rather a pleasant afternoon.
Cloudy in the northwest
I have often thought that you see as much blue skies in cyclonic situations as you do in anticyclonic situations across the north of Scotland, and so it was with the fleeting anticyclone we saw this …
Haar, haar, haar
For the last three days the haar that’s been adffecting the east coast of England and Scotland has been stubborn to clear. Here in easter Ross it took till almost tea time yesterday before it finally …
Dull and humid in the southeast – much sunnier further north and west
For a real treat I just sat through a BBC weather forecast presented by the inimitable Tomasz Schafernaker at 1157 BST followed by one presented by Susan Powell an hour later. It was interesting to compare …
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In the shadow of cumulonimbus
I thought that it was a little dark this morning, at first I thought it might be down to the haar that I could see towards Dingwall, but when I saw the visible satellite image I …
Isolated thunderstorm tracks north across the Cairngorms
All quiet across the UK on the thunderstorm front apart from this single cell moving more or less due north across the southern Cairngorms.
Unstable Europe
The cumulonimbus anvils are starting to build across mainland Europe this afternoon.
Heat low triggers thunderstorm close to Coventry
It has been awhile since I’ve seen a proper heat low form over the UK, but it has this afternoon just to the west of London, and this evening it has managed to spark of a …
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Heatwaves and today’s thunderstorms
Tomasz Schafernaker has a theory that today’s thunderstorms are only occurring where there hasn’t been a heatwave so far, which just goes to show what he knows about the definition for heatwave definition, and the fact …
Stratus not quite melting away as quickly as planned…
The low stratus didn’t just melt away as Stav Danaos suggested it would yesterday, it seems to be clinging to the higher dewpoint area that was across the same area on Friday, and probably connected to …
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Arguably the best weather this weekend is across the North of Scotland
Temperatures are certainly not going to reach the dizzy heights of 36°C as they are further south, but arguably the best and most ‘pleasant’ weather across the country at the moment is happening across the north …
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