Another cold day
Another cold day for July across large parts of IONA, particularly in the wind and rain across the north and west. Summer, or should I say those few days warm days that we saw last week …
Temperature
You could say that
Yes, it was bit cooler than that across northern Scotland Chris, in fact it dropped down to just 0.3°C at Altnaharra with a ground frost there and Aboyne. Because Meteogroup persist in the BBC tradition of …
June 2020 – temperature
Despite the midsummer heatwave, mean temperatures in June 2020 across IONA look to a have been generally within o.5°C and 1.5°C above the LTA. That ties in with the mean CET value of +1.3°C for the …
It’s just not “feeling cool” in places, it’s just plain cold
I have just been listening to Chris Fawkes the weathercaster on duty this lunchtime in the BBC News. He’s always loathed to say much about Scotland in his forecasts, and when he does he always seems …
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Chances of 40°C days in the UK increasing
Author: Met Office Press Office 16:00 (UTC+1) on Tue 30 Jun 2020 Towards the end of the century parts of the UK could see 40°C days every 3-4 years on average under a high emissions scenario. A …
Cold May in Australia
I completely missed that Australia saw their coldest May nationally since 2011. Here’s what their Bureau of Meteorology had to say about it:- Australia in May 2020 In brief Nationally, May was cooler than average for …
A cold day for June
Maximum temperatures were over 9°C lower than yesterdays across the north and maximum temperature anomalies were generally between -2°C and -6°C below the LTA for the day, this combined with the wind and rain in the …
Warmth lingers on across Northern Scotland but 10°C cooler across places further south
I was fearing the worst when I looked at the NWP for this weekend for the North of Scotland, but at least we have so far escaped the worst of it for today, with nothing much …
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Goodbye heatwave
Some places across the UK scraped four days out of this short lived ‘heatwave’ while many others never quite made it.
Whatever happened to the terms sultry and close?
Whatever happened to the terms sultry and close as a description of weather when it was oppressively warm and humid? All you seem to get from the current crop of weathercasters is how humid it is …
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Heatwave count
Here is the latest count (up until yesterday) of consecutive days that have reached the heatwave threshold as outlined by the UKMO. There’s absolutely no doubt that heatwave conditions will continue today, as temperatures are already …
Record high temperatures in Siberia
There’s a lot of media activity about the recent high temperature in Siberia at the moment. It looks like a record maximum temperature has been set at Verkhoyansk of 38.0°C. A temperature of 38°C would be …
Mid June report
The first thing I can say about the circulation in the first half of June 2020 is that if it had been a January it would have been one hell of a cold and snowy one, …
Last weeks temperatures across Europe
Here is a look back at mean temperatures across Europe for the last week. It’s been colder than average around much of western Europe and Iberia but very warm towards eastern Russia and the southeast of …
Flaming June
It’s been downhill all the way so far this June as far as temperatures are concerned, and it’s been rather wet in a few places as well.
A cold day in June
Today was just a cold day. None of this ‘cool’ bollocks pedalled by the weathercasters, just a plain cold day in June with anomalies widley in the range of -4°C to -6°C. It was dry in …
A cold day in June
Anomalies at 12 UTC on Thursday the 4th of June 2020 across the UK were generally between 2°C and 6°C below the 1981-2010 LTA. The only place above average that I can see is Plymouth in …
May 2020 – Temperature anomalies
On the strength of these anomalies at least, May 2020 looks have been generally on the cold side in most of this semi-quadrant of the globe, with Scandinavia and eastern Europe for once seeing some cold …
May 2020 – Temperature
Temperatures across the UK ended up being a degree or so above the long term average for May. It was warmer across southern areas, but cooler the further north you where, and anomalies were negative across …
27.5°C at Kinlochewe makes it warmest place for second day in a row
Wrong again Louise – even though I have given you an extra bonus point for adding that temperature label for the northwest Highlands… But poor old Ben’s still pedalling that same old story that Cardiff will …
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20°C diurnal range
There was a 20.3°C diurnal range at Loch Glascarnoch between yesterday’s maximum (24.5°C) and this mornings minimum (4.2°C), there was even a slight frost at Aboyne (-0.4°C) just for good measure. This is all down to …
Off to a warmer start across the north
The north of Scotland is off to a much warmer start than yesterday, after finally throwing off the shackles of the haar in the Moray Firth, as you can see in the chart of 24 hour …