Beast from the east and Buchans cold spell
The latest run of the ECMWF model raises the prospect of an anticyclonic easterly by the first week of February and all that that …
Cold
26-27 Jan 2021 – minimum of -8.3°C at Baltasound
The UKMO most northerly weather station can be found at Baltasound on the Isle of Unst, part of the Shetland Isles. Surprisingly last nights …
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Wrong – check the Baltasound observations
As far as I know Shetland is till apart of the United Kingdom, but so often it’s forgotten by weathercasters, as it was this …
A simple test
Meteogroup and their team of weathercasters down at the BBC seem to have a lot of difficulty getting the message across that it remains …
25-26 Jan 2021 – Loch Glascarnoch whups em again
Loch Glascarnoch thanks to its 16 cm of snow cover was again the coldest place overnight across IONA, and even Shawbury couldn’t match it. …
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24-25 Jan 2021 – overnight minima
There were overnight minima of -9.7°C at Katesbridge in county Down, -9.2°C at Topcliffe in Yorkshire and -9.7°C at Sennybridge in Wales. Other places …
A cold spell to come
The Met Office reckon that there’s a cold spell to come in their latest news blog. It’s exemplifies the parochial approach we get from …
14-15 Jan 2021 – overnight minimum temperatures
Ravensworth in North Yorkshire was the coldest place in IONA overnight with a minimum of -10.5°C [18-06] over a good covering of snow. I …
The Great Freeze of 1900
The Great Freeze of 1900 – this is a new one on me. I saw mention of it in a graph of mortality rates …
11-12 Jan 2021 – mild night across south
It was a mild night across the south of IONA. Minimum anomalies [18-06] were generally in a range 3°C to 6°C above the 1981-2010 …
Meanwhile in Spain…
After the record snowfall in Madrid last week, Spain last night saw what must have been one of the coldest nights for a very …
Cherry picking sites to plonk an AWS to capture climate extremes…
I was very slow looking into the reported record minimum temperature of -35.6°C for Spain that occurred at Vega de Liordes in northern Spain. …
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Tulloch Bridge takes over as coldest
A fascinating night as far as temperatures are concerned across Scotland. Tulloch Bridge takes over as the coldest place from Loch Glascarnoch in the …
Another late minimum at Glascarnoch
I was going to report that the coldest place in the UK SYNOPs overnight was again the AWS at Loch Glascarnoch with a [18-06] …
A rather “chilly” -12.1°C at Glascarnoch
There was a minimum 0f -12.1°C at the AWS above Loch Glascarnoch last night [18-06]. The 21-09 minimum might well have dropped even lower …
A late minimum at Altnaharra
I would usually display a table of [18-06] minimum temperatures in a blog like this but due to a late clearance in a stubborn …
Is this how the cold spell will end?
The ten day outlook isn’t looking too rosy at the moment for snow lovers from the 12th of January. We’ve had a good run …
Anticyclonic spell in north, windy, raw and rather cold further south
The cold spell continues over the whole of IONA al least for the next four days according to the Hires ECMWF model. Eventually high …
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Cold day across northern England
The temperature yesterday at Carlisle never rose higher than -2.2°C and last night at “The freezer” known as Topcliffe temperatures fell to -7.5°C.
Anticyclonic easterly sits waiting in the wings for Christmas
It seems that every year, I along with a lot of others do the same thing, and that is looking for the first hint …
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The coldest nights and places in 2020
I am not privileged to have access to the daily reports from the stations in the climate network of the Met Office, so these …
Coldest night of the autumn
There is quite a contrast across the chart as far as overnight minimum temperatures are concerned.I think I am right in saying that the …
ECMWF going for a white Christmas this year
The ECMWF are going for a white Christmas this year. That’s according to their latest extended range forecast temperature anomaly chart for the 21st …
Kicked and dragging into winter
The cold northerly I blogged about yesterday that looked like it would affect the country next weekend looks likely to arrive much earlier in …