16 Jan 2021 – latest on Saturdays snow
If anything the transitory snow on saturday could be a bigger problem across eastern England than anywhere else in the country according to the …
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Fascinating battle going on – not just between mild and cold but Meteogroup and UKMO
Despite amber warnings issued by the Met Office for heavy snow across Scotland and northeast England later today Meteogroup are still choosing to ignore …
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Not exactly how the Met Office see it…
In his forecast on the BBC this afternoon Darren Bett doesn’t mention exactly how high the hills are he expects snow to fall on …
A different planet
Louise Lear in her forecast at 6.30 pm on BBC 1 seemed to be more interested in the chances of some snow on the …
Misleading temperatures from the BBC
Louise Lear says that it’s noticeably milder for most parts away from the far northeast, and on that point I can’t really disagree with …
Severe weather warnings and the BBC
What is the point of the UKMO issuing severe weather warnings for ice and snow if the BBC never display them? Is it because …
Milder, but colder in far north with rain then snow
All the weathercasters are having problems with the nationwide headlines that they’ve tried to dream up for this morning, they can’t decide if its …
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An odd way of putting it
I wouldn’t have described how the cold northerlies will extend down the North Sea early on Tuesday in the same rather odd way that …
Not a word about the Shetland snow in the BBC forecasts
It does make you wonder if there is a red phone at Meteogroup HQ that is a direct hotline between them and the Great …
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The weather gods
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but the weathercasters on the BBC have developed their own kind of weather speak in which they pronounce …
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 …
Meteogroup all out of synch
It’s always been true that weather visualisation systems have great difficulty in synchronising frontal systems and isobars. Sometime they have trouble synchronising rainfall layers …
Monthly Outlook from the BBC
Just a quick look at the latest Monthly Outlook produced by Meteogroup. I never realised until today that the BBC weather website contained a …
Prerecorded forecasts
A particularly chilly night – you’ll have to do better than that Matt Taylor. It’s common practice since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic …
North sea shower tracks
The showers that are currently streaming off the North Sea have been getting a fair bit inland in the last 24 hours. The old …
4 January 2020 – visible satellite
A great visible satellite image today. Snow over Norway and the Highlands, with showers streaming of the North Sea thanks to the instability from …
Desperate for a story
The BBC weathercasters must have been looking desperately for a weather story for the southeast of England this morning, who must be feeling rather …
A rather cold and wintry Hogmanay
It looks like it will be a cold and wintry Hogmanay for 2021 across IONA. The weather continues to be rather cold, rather than …
Four to seven celsius
Three times Alina Jenkins in her lunch time forecast said temperatures were in a range of four to seven celsius and three times they …
BBC misleading graphics
Why is it that the BBC still continue to mislead viewers regarding surface temperature in their graphics? As far as I can see in …
A little bit kooler today
Matt Taylor reckons it’s a little bit kooler than it was yesterday across the country and I can’t argue with him on that one, …
More like north or northeastward
A couple of faux pas in Sarah Keith Lucas broadcast this lunchtime, as well as saying that the “next batch of wind and rain …
Pockets of frost
I heard on the TV weather yesterday that yesterday, the 7th of December 2020, had been the coldest day in the UK at Santon …