Well done to the Met Office with their yellow wind warning for strong wind they issued yesterday, who says that I’m always critical of them? Although I will say they did leave the start time for …
Bracing down the east coast with gusts of 58 knots at Donna Nook Read More »
So much for the ICON model and its forecast 2 metre air temperature for Altnaharra at o6 UTC this morning of 3°C. The Germans look like they have problems with that model because the temperature at …
The first frost of the autumn and model shortcomings Read More »
There was a fairly large area of rainfall totals across western Scotland that exceeded 40 mm yesterday, and across higher ground estimated totals were well in excess of 80 mm. I thought that I would just …
The first three weeks of September 2020 have turned out to have been rather dry in many places across England especially the far southeast and close to the channel coast.
I am not quite sure if the weather radar images are over estimating the rain that’s been falling so far today in the west of Scotland, but if they aren’t I think totals of 50 to …
The medicane/cyclone which I have watching for the last couple of days has now been given the name of Ianos by somebody or other and has moved a little faster in the last 24 hours than …
I will let you be the judge of just how accurate the third Met Office warning was for this weekend’s rain. If you believe the estimated accumulations from weather radar it maybe should have been extended …
This morning the Met Office updated their yellow warning of heavy rain for western Scotland for later on Saturday and through into Sunday. The reason for their update, as far as I can make out is …
I shouldn’t imagine the weather this weekend will be too good if you’re on holiday stuck in Fort William this weekend. With the wind and all the rain this has all the hallmarks of a local …
A wet weekend ahead for some, dry and warmer for others Read More »
The 365 day precipitation totals from the gridded UKP data are currently well above average in all regions of the UK bar the north of Scotland. I reckon this is a fairly unusual situation in that …
I am forever looking for cycles in weather graphs, my eye just seems to catch them no matter how vague or real any periodicity is. There does seem to be some kind of a 6 or …
Vague periodicity in annual rainfall in SE England Read More »
Yesterday was a strange kind of weather day as low ‘Lynn’ deepened across the south producing a lot of thunderstorms and heavy rain in the process. As you may know if you are a regular reader …
The Met Office have issued a rather odd yellow warning of heavy rain for the southeast and central southern England at 1100 BST valid for the period 1130 till 1900 BST today. I say odd because …
The odd warning of heavy rain for central and southeast England *updated* Read More »
Remember you read it here first If you remember on Saturday I posted that Tuesday’s low might end up being named storm Francis, and for once, because I’ve often attempted this, I was correct. But I …
Met Office lowers threshold for named storms to increase their number Read More »
It is amazing how many people don’t know that it snows occasionally in some parts of Australia during their winter, and yet there can’t be many years without an item on the BBC news with images …
Snow in Australia – don’t worry it’s only global warming Read More »
I am quite surprised that the UKMO haven’t taken the trouble to issue a yellow warning for heavy rain this afternoon, at least across Northern Ireland. Estimated accumulations of 10 mm in the space of 30 …
Quite surprised there’s no yellow warning out for heavy rain this afternoon Read More »
The funny radius across western Ireland was because the Shannon radar was u/s for a time yesterday. In light of this radar image maybe I should amend my analysis for 23 UTC?
I don’t see how you can have dew points of 18°C and 19°C after the passage of a cold front, well to be exact the passage of an upper cold front inside a warm sector, then …
This has got to be one of the worst examples of a map of climate statistics that you will ever see. It attempts to show every flash of lightning that occurred during June 2020, and believe …
Sometimes a map of rainfall totals from a fixed number of sites doesn’t paint the full picture especially in a thundery month like August 2020. It will be very interesting to see what the colour contoured …
