20-21 June 2021 – Overnight ground frost
A ground frost at three stations across the northeast of Scotland this morning to coincide with the summer solstice.
Frost
22-23 May 2021 – Frost in northern Scotland
Another overnight frost across the parts of Scotland with a minimum of -3.2°C at Altnaharra. I’ve got a feeling that this won’t be the …
An April to remember
As one station falls out of drought another couple pop up across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The end of the absolute drought …
Since records began in 1960 – really?
It amazing to discover that we’ve only been adding the number of days of frost that occur each month since 1960. That’s according to …
Frostiest April for at least 60 years in UK
The Met Office have just caught up on the fact that it’s been rather frosty this month, and quick as a flash on the …
April 2021 – East west split in temperatures
For a change the warmest places in IONA were in the extreme west of Ireland. There was yet another night with air frost across …
21/22 Apr 2021 – Overnight minima
I think you’ll agree that there was a widespread slight, locally moderate frost across the northeast Scotland last night, and not at all as …
20/21 Apr 2021 – Extreme temperatures
The frost has returned to the north after four milder nights with a minimum of -6.3°C at Tulloch Bridge. You’ll notice that Loch Glascarnoch …
Frosty April
The first half of April has been cold and very frosty this year in the UK especially across the north of Scotland. Both Loch …
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. …
“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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