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. …
Cold
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 …
Altnaharra doesn’t look anything like that!
The BBC lunchtime news read by Reeta Chakrabarti made me smile when Reeta mentioned that the coldest place had been -16.7°C in some places …
Storm Darcy coincident but not the cause of the severe cold weather
The media seems to have concluded that the cold weather we’re seeing at the moment is all the result of storm Darcy. How they …
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8 Feb 2021 – maximum temperatures
Here are Mondays maximum temperatures across IONA [06-18]. It was another very cold day and no doubt many places in the Highlands saw another …
8-9 Feb 2021 – 07 UTC -15.1°C and falling at Altnaharra
A lot of talk about how Wednesday is going to be the coldest night of the winter, well that might well be true, but …
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8 Feb 2021 – 12 UTC temperatures & anomalies
I seem to have spent an inordinate amount of time this afternoon trying to find a range of colours that I am happy with …
Real cold air lies much further east
If you thinks that it’s cold here across IONA at the moment, just cast your eyes to the right and the east of this …
8 Feb 2021 – Ranked extreme temperatures, snow depth & wind chill
Who said Alexander Buchan was wrong with his table of singularities? We are into day two of his first cold spell, and at least …
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Anticyclonic Easterlies in winter aren’t what they used to be…
It seems that anticyclonic easterlies in winter aren’t quite what they used to be these days. Compare today’s 12 UTC observations with those of …
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