Frost

Katesbridge the icebox of Northern Ireland does it again

The 18-06 minimum at Katesbridge county Down last night was a remarkably low -6.1°C and according to the Met Office it was close to...

Despite the wind there was still quite a widespread air frost last night across inland parts of Scotland. As far as I can see...

The new breed of Met Office ‘forecaster’ either get the terminology wrong or the forecast and sometimes both. Perhaps I’m being too hard on...

I don’t think I’ve seen a frostier month even in winter than we’ve seen this April across the northeast of Scotland. Spring has only...

The end of a quite spectacular sunny seven days in April, with today and maybe tomorrow to come, across much of the country. The...

These climate stats that I used to produce these charts are based on the 18-06 UTC minimum temperatures as reported in the 06 UTC...

Well Chris Fawkes got it right, well probably right, yesterday he said that there would be a frost in the “steep sided valleys” of...

Most of you know that I have several bees in my bonnet about the Meteogroup led BBC Weather approach to the forecasting of frost...

Just a quick look back at the forecast from the BBC and Meteogroup to see how they did forecasting yesterday’s maximum and the overnight...

I can’t find any evidence on iPlayer of yesterday’s evening weather forecast at the end of the news presented by Nick Miller, so you’ll...

Whatever NWP model Meteogroup are using for their BBC forecasts both nationally and locally had a dreadful day of it yesterday, what with missing...

We woke up to another light covering of snow in Strathpeffer this morning. If snow comes at night it can still cause problems even...