It is one thing having a gust of gale force and a true gale. Stav obviously thinks the country is experiencing a true gale quite widely today, but he is wrong and it’s misleading. But apart …
Repeat after me – a gust of 34 knots or higher does not make a gale Read More »
Yes, it was bit cooler than that across northern Scotland Chris, in fact it dropped down to just 0.3°C at Altnaharra with a ground frost there and Aboyne. Because Meteogroup persist in the BBC tradition of …
I have just been listening to Chris Fawkes the weathercaster on duty this lunchtime in the BBC News. He’s always loathed to say much about Scotland in his forecasts, and when he does he always seems …
It’s just not “feeling cool” in places, it’s just plain cold Read More »
Another great opening line from Tomasz Schafernaker in the taped weather forecast that’s been running all morning on the BBC News channel. So there’s not much change on the weather front over the next few days… …
So there’s not much change on the weather front over the next few days… Read More »
Apparently Louise Lear thinks that low Juliane, heading across the North Sea quicker than any ferry from Esbjerg to Aberdeen, will bring strong winds to the northwest of the UK. Well the ECMWF model suggests that …
The north of Scotland is off to a much warmer start than yesterday, after finally throwing off the shackles of the haar in the Moray Firth, as you can see in the chart of 24 hour …
It may have been “a very weak weather front” according to Darren Bett, in yesterday’s evening weather forecast on the BBC, but this fly in the ointment did produce a fair amount of rain across the …
Before I go on, I do realise that it usually feels warmer out of the wind than it does when you’re in it – the infamous wind chill effect – and although I agree with Louise …
I can’t understand why Louise Lear ignores what her NWP graphics are telling her about the snow showers that are occurring across northern Scotland today. I can confirm to her that the couple of snow showers …
The cold front that’s moving south across IONA did as it name suggests and dropped the temperatures across the north of Scotland overnight. It also arrived just it time for the festival of Ice Saints between …
Ben Rich seems to be convinced that the weather is going to turn dramatically colder by next weekend. I presume he is looking at the ECMWF midnight run that does have a cold northerly plunge around …
‘Dramatically colder’ next weekend according to Ben Rich Read More »
It is quite obvious that the air across the south of England is a lot more unstable than given credit for by whatever NWP model the BBC and Meteogroup have chosen to use today, as the …
Looks like Meteogroup picked the wrong model again Read More »
The image Tomasz Schafernaker opened his lunchtime forecast with has to be an NWP generated pseudo satellite image, because it’s already come adrift from the reality of the situation. There’s a spiral of upper cloud to …
Well Chris Fawkes got it right, well probably right, yesterday he said that there would be a frost in the “steep sided valleys” of Scotland in his weather forecast yesterday on the BBC. Chris, this may …
Another “probable” frost in the “steep sided valleys” of Scotland Read More »
Here are the latest SST charts for around the UK in a little more detail than Meteogroup could manage, perhaps they thought that the extra detail might be a distraction and the intelligence of the average …
Most of you know that I have several bees in my bonnet about the Meteogroup led BBC Weather approach to the forecasting of frost particularly in Scotland, and their seeming inability to either forecast it with …
Fifth possible/maybe light touch of frost in a row on Deeside Read More »
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 minimum temperatures. The early presenter yesterday was Louise Lear who was convinced …
At least Louise Lear mentioned the possibility of showers for the southwest this evening, which is something that Chris Fawkes seems to have dismissed entirely. I haven’t looked at the latest NWP but it does look …
Showers look threatening over Brest peninsula (updated) Read More »
If you have heard this one before from me then please forgive me – but if Meteogroup placed their forecast temperature labels for coastal stations, and which they obviously love so much, over the sea rather …
I didn’t catch Nick Miller’s “possible touch of frost” in his forecast yesterday evening on iPlayer before the BBC quickly whipped it off. So call this screenshot forward planning, in the full expectation that the “touch …
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 have to take my word for it, suffice it to say he …
Another “touch of frost” in Scotland as temperatures dip to -6.9°C at Aboyne Read More »
It is quite interesting to observe that the good old cliché “north-south split”, coined by that style icon of the 1980’s Michael Fish, is rarely if ever used by weathercasters on TV if the weather in …
What about using the good old “north-south split” cliché now? Read More »
Whatever NWP model Meteogroup are using for their BBC forecasts both nationally and locally had a dreadful day of it yesterday, what with missing rain at lunchtime and the thunderstorms in the afternoon, and making a …
You’re right there Kawser – and not just in the Glens Read More »
Clouds have been reported to have blocked the sun across parts of the southeast this morning. The shock news has rocked many southerners who had been thinking that summer had come early to the metropolis. A …
Shock horror! Clouds obscure the sun over London – and why is it raining? Read More »