passionate about weather
I notice that when a front stalls across southern parts of the country and produces some unwelcome rain it gets labelled by Louise Lear – in one of her favourite euphemisms – as a nuisance front producing some nuisance rain. The same front did produced quite a lot...
Many of you will know I don’t have a lot of time for the weathercasters on TV either male or female. But if I had to choose the best of the bunch I think it would have to be Nick Miller on the BBC – I nearly said...
There was a moderate to severe frost over the north of Scotland last night, call me pedantic if you like, but I think that’s a more accurate way of describing what a beautiful frosty morning it is than “some of us started off with a bit of frost”....
The weathercasters on TV have not stopped going on about the strong signals for high pressure this coming week, well we might have to wait till later in the weekend before we see any real benefits from it, especially if you live in the south. Louise Lear had...
I am afraid that area of cloud over a large part of Scotland are in fact the snow covered mountains of Scotland Tomasz. As usual the weathercasters make very little of this quirk of nature that is snow which happens every winter across Scotland. The poor resolution highly...
“The weather at this time of year can be a bit of a tease. Yesterday we had heavy rain and showers, they eased away, and then look at this 17 degrees, that’s the expected high, that’s incredibly mild for this time of year. But that mild air is...
I normally watch the weather spot at 2.30 PM each day on the BBC News channel on most days, it’s a real education, but why has it taken the BBC weathercasters so long to cotton on to the fact that it’s been so very mild across Europe, particularly...
Chris Fawkes was chatting to day on the 2.30 PM weather slot on the BBC News channel. This five minute chat can give you some insight to how each weathercaster thinks and occasionally it’s quite intersting to boot. Today Chris was going on about the “unprecedented” number of...
Better late than never the Irish have now woken up and decided to issue an orange alert for storm Jorge.
Tonight’s brief ridge of high pressure…
Why is it that weathercasters always seem to ignore the NWP in their graphics?
Their primary job as weathercasters is to present a weather forecast for the coming night and next day, yes they are given little time to do it in, and yes things are going to get wet and windy this weekend, but please don’t forget about the here and now.
Not a single traffic cam on either the A57 or A628. Unfortunately Highways England only seem interested in traffic on Motorway and no other type of road.
I suppose it does provide meaning for a group of people down in Exeter, and what would people like me and those hacks down at the Daily Mail and Daily Express do if they stopped?
I get the feeling that this particular forecast is taped much earlier in the evening, and is certainly not helpful to any motorist attempting to use the A9 tonight who is watching it.
This infographic is for the benefit of people like Chris Fawkes who has trouble telling the difference between the two.
Petty and trivial it may be, but London centric thinking is insidious and pervades not only presenters at Meteogroup but at the Met Office too.
I can’t believe that the presenters come up with each idea themselves and that there isn’t someone locked in a room back at Meteogroup headquarters furiously racking his brain for pertinent weather and climate stories he can add to his list.
