There are a lot of stories circulating around at the moment about how similar maximum temperatures in today’s summer solstice are with those of …
Summer and Winter solstice temperature differences Read More »
The air is neither fresher or warmer across Scotland today I’m afraid, and hasn’t been since last week. I have no idea if this …
I notice that Heathrow is 3.4°C higher than it was at the same time yesterday at 13 UTC, which is enough to produce a …
We have had a lot of hot air in the last few days about just how ‘hot’ it was going to get today from …
Here is a chart of the warmest places across IONA during the last month drawn from SYNOP observations. It seems that since the demise …
Just to put the ‘hot’ weather of this coming weekend across IONA into some kind of perspective, the real heat in Europe this week …
Courtesy of the BBC At least someone in the BBC weather team has got some sense and modified the headlines for this weekends weather. …
So Matt Taylor reckons the definition of hot is a maximum temperatures of 28°C. Hot seems to have undergone a redefinition in recent years, …
You might think I’m going completely mad and tilting at windmills here but this BBC news item from yesterday got me going. It was …
Scotland was the warmest place again in the UK again today, not only that the 25.1°C at Kinlochewe was the warmest day of the …
The temperature pushed up a little higher to 24.0°C at Lossiemouth at 12 UTC. That’s 9.7°C above my best guess anomalies for today from …
I always reckon anomalies of +10°C is heatwave territory Read More »
I noticed the Moray Firth foehn drive has just been switched on at Lossiemouth allowing the temperature to soar up to 21.8°C at 11 …
Despite what weathercasters would have you believe, the real warm air at the moment has and still is, across southern Norway. The ECMWF forecast …
Real warm air across southern Norway at the moment Read More »
I watched Carol Kirkwood presentation this morning and noticed there was little crowing about this warm spell of weather, especially it being the first …
Altnaharra in Sutherland was the warmest place in IONA again today with a temperature of 23.8°C just pipping Aviemore to the top slot. There …
It could be that once again the warmest place in IONA was across the Highlands of Scotland with the AWS at Aviemore reporting 23.2°C …
Chivenor in north Devon was the warmest place across IONA today with 22.9°C just pipping the Vale of York Stations to warmest spot. Louise …
Yet another weathercaster with yet another fancy graphic going on about how we are going to see warmer air spreading up from the continent …
This chart Stav Danaos started his forecast with may well be the chart for Saturday or Sunday when the warmth might well be coming …
“The warmth is coming up from the near continent…” Read More »
Sean Batty, the weathercaster for STV, has noticed a curious fact that underscores just how cold 2021 has been up until now in Scotland. …
There was quite a contrast in temperatures across Finland today from 7°C on the Baltic coast in the west to close to 30°C in …
A sudden warm plume of air has wafted up from the sub-tropics across central Europe today. Temperatures at 14 UTC reached 30.3°C at Strasbourg …
For a change the warmest places in IONA were in the extreme west of Ireland. There was yet another night with air frost across …
Although Northolt was technically the warmest place today with a maximum temperature of 18.3°C, maximum anomalies were much higher along the Moray coast. Along …