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. …
Frost
“Wintry showers” causing problems further south
If anything last night was colder than Friday night, lighter winds meant better conditions for radiative cooling, allowing people further south to experience the …
Late frost as cloud clears
A textbook example of a late frost in the North of Scotland this morning with Loch Glascarnoch dropping to -6.5°C at 07 UTC as …
11-12 Feb 2021 – minima and windchill
Another severe frost overnight with Strathallan pipping Altnaharra to the lowest [18-06] overnight minimum in IONA. Temperatures were at their lowest early across most …
9-10 February 2021 – the coldest, mildest & snowiest
Altnaharra was the coldest station again in IONA last night with a minimum of -17.1°C to just beat Monday night’s lowest temperature since 2010. …
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Only Tomasz Schafernaker could ignore a low of -16.7°C and 70 cm of snow
The one thing that Tomasz Schafernaker never does is fail to amaze me. In his lunchtime forecast today, he completely ignored this mornings -16.7°C …
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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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20 Jan 2021 – 08 UTC analysis and extremes
Another very windy and mild night for mid January across the bulk of England and Wales, with minima no lower than 10°C quite widely …
No flies on Stav!
Do BBC weathercasters ever look at the latest UK observations before going on air to do their broadcasts? It certainly looks like Stav Danaos …
-10.6°C at Glascarnoch at sunset
After a bitterly cold day across the Highlands with maximum temperatures even in the bright sunshine of -5°C, temperatures have already plummeted to -10.6°C …
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 …
Nights with a frost so far this winter
The frost count after 36 nights so far this meteorological winter is nothing exceptional, but at least the count is not as low has …
-11°C a “sharp frost” I don’t think so
The forecast for tonight from the Met Office for the Highlands says that there will be a “sharp frost” with a minimum air temperature …
Dalwhinnie finally gets it’s cigar
This mornings minimum of -9.7°C [18-06] Dalwhinnie just pipped Altnaharra as the coldest night of the year. Before you write to me complaining that’s …
Close, but no cigar for the -9.5°C at Dalwhinnie
Not a perfect radiation night by any means, but temperatures at 18 UTC yesterday evening were already -6°C over a covering of powder snow …
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Staying cold for next ten days
The meteogram that I have cobbled together from grid point data from the ECMWF model remains on the cold side for the next ten …
So this is Christmas
A generally widespread slight to moderate frost away from windward coasts overnight. Temperatures are already rising and pressure falling in the northwest though. The …
Number of UK ice days slipping away
The Met Office have already announced their new climate tool today that tells you how global warming will affect your postcode, and now there …
-9.6°C at Altnaharra coldest night of the year
The 18-06 minimum of -9.6°C at Altnaharra last night was the coldest of the autumn so far in the UK. It looked like it …
So much for Buchan
Mild November on the cards after a short lived cold spell We might have to wait till the latter part of November to see …
Another frost at Loch Glascarnoch
Second night in a row for an air frost at Loch Glascarnoch and the fourth their this autumn. That figure could have been a …
Another early frost
It could have been so much colder overnight if it hadn’t been for some low cloud and the wind never really falling out across …
Frost for the north?
I would have thought that there was a good chance of a sharp frost tonight across inland parts of Scotland, although the ICON model …