Delhi records coldest May day in 70 years
Delhi recordest it’s coldest May day in 70 years on Wednesday this week and just go to show that there are places other than …
Cold
Low Marco heralds cold end to May
I have been looking into my crystal ball (aka the Hires ECMWF model) and I foresee that low Marco on Thursday heralds a resurgence …
Ice Saints comes up trumps again
It looks like the ancient period known as Ice Saints which often brings a brief spell of colder weather from the 11th to 15th …
Tell it like it is
Smiling Carol Kirkwood said it wasn’t “particularly cold” across the country in her 8.15 am forecast on the BBC News channel. I think she …
Chillyitus
Stav Danaos seems to be getting over his long bout of chillyitus, it’s still there but he did manage to use the word cold …
Why not tell it like it is – it’s cold!
I hate some euphemisms and the use of ‘temperatures really struggling’ and ‘double figures’ really hides the fact that the weathercaster for whatever reason …
Cold start to May
It seems like we might not be completely done with either frost or snow this spring according to the outer limits – the T+216 …
Today’s real hot spots
Although Northolt was technically the warmest place today with a maximum temperature of 18.3°C, maximum anomalies were much higher along the Moray coast. Along …
Cold spell continues
The cold spell continues, and although it is a little warmer by day, overnight frosts are still occurring across many parts of the country. …
Snowy white winters that melt into spring…
We have had another light dusting of snow here in the Strath this morning, and at the moment a very light snow shower has …
Repeat performance
This cold snap looks like the start of a recurring spell of northwesterly outbreaks forecast for the first half of April across IONA. The …
Cold start to April on the cards
The long awaited cold northerly outbreak seems to have slipped back in each successive run of the models, but there seems to be no …
Much warmer now cold front gone through
Counter intuitively it feels much warmer across our part of northeast Scotland after the passage of the cold front earlier this morning than it …
1-2 Mar 2021 – overnight min of -6.6°C at Altnharra
As well as a moderate frost with a minimum of -6.6°C at Altnaharra last night, there was also a range of 17.3°C from yesterday …
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The answers global heating – now what’s the question?
Even before the cold wave across Texas had even finished the climate attributionists have already laid the finger of blame on Arctic heating as …
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Cold Turkey
The cold air further north over eastern Russia has finally permeated down into the eastern Mediterranean in the last day or so to produce …
As the days grow longer the cold gets stronger…
I am very surprised that this cold spell, which has gone on since Christmas here in the north, is going out without very much …
Biting cold
Despite slightly milder temperatures across Scotland, temperatures across a large part of the southeast have stubbornly remained sub zero again today. That coupled with …
11 Feb 2021 – maximum temperatures
The maximum at Altnaharra today was just -6.2°C today and it’s already been down to -12°C this evening. I realise that the wind is …
Sour grapes down at the BBC
I think last nights 6.30 pm weather forecast gave us an unexpected insight into the mind of a typical BBC weathercaster. If you get …
10-11 Feb 2021 – extreme temperatures
A minimum of -19.7°C was recorded overnight [18-06] at Altnaharra. As half expected this has been eclipsed by one of -21.8°C from, Braemar announced …
Braemar v Altnaharra
I can’t monitor the temperature tonight at Braemar – because the Met Office only allows it’s paying customers to see them, so much for …
10 Feb 2021 – 12 UTC anomalies and temperatures
Another bitterly cold day across IONA with 12 UTC anomalies as low as -13.3°C at Altnaharra, and typically between -6 to -9°C below the …
Wrong!
So why when Altnaharra was the coldest place by far yesterday with a record low of -16.7°C, and with a day maximum on Tuesday …