24 Jan 2021 – 11 UTC snow depths
I smartened up how I display snow depths just now to see how the totals where across the IONA. We still have around five …
Weather
Snow in the south
Some places in the south of England are seeing their first taste of snow so far this winter. The occlusion, or should that be …
Icy patches have already formed…
Someone seems to have finally got the message and included Easter Ross in the latest warning for snow and ice. So often recently it …
23 Jan 2021 – 10 UTC snow depths
It is not often that there’s much point in rolling out a table of snow depths across the country, but there are quite a …
Null points from Easter Ross
Originally tweeted by Met Office (@metoffice) on 22 January 2021. Occasional snow showers have been drifting down in the northwesterly for the last twenty …
Storm Christoph – Precipitation
The highest accumulations from the precipitation from storm Christoph in these weather radar estimates of mine are where you might have expected them, and …
20 Jan 2021 – 18 UTC analysis
Another easy but interesting analysis. There looks to be around a good five degree drop in temperature on the cold front itself. There is …
Honey I’ve shrunk the warning!
The Great Oz has decided to shrink the amber warning area for heavy rain, he can do that because he is all powerful after …
20 Jan 2021 – 08 UTC analysis and extremes
Another very windy and mild night for mid January across the bulk of England and Wales, with minima no lower than 10°C quite widely …
19-20 January 2021 – Radar rainfall estimates
Some white pixels are showing up over the highest ground which indicates 26 hour totals of precipitation well in excess of 80 mm which …
19-20 Jan 2021 – precipitation
It was certainly a wet 24 hours across the high ground of Northern Ireland, Wales and the northwest England up until 06 UTC this …
19 Jan 2021 – rainfall totals since 06 UTC
I notice that in tonight’s news there was footage of people in the flood prone areas around Doncaster furiously boarding up their doors in …
Rain clears northwards
Just call me an old skeptic, but I’m still not at all convinced about the amber heavy rain/flood warning which the Met Office have …
18-19 Jan 2021 – rainfall accumulations
Looking at the latest rainfall accumulations and the latest weather radar I still think the main focus of the rain is still west of …
Yellow warning for blizzards
I feel that I must apologise, for what reason I don’t know because no one down in Exeter ever reads this heretical blog, about …
Cue the sun
I am afraid that this animated fly through 3D bar chart of accumulations from the precipitation that storm Christoph will bring is little better …
Sure about heavy rain – not so sure about strong winds and blizzards
Storm Christoph is going to make it a very busy week as far as warnings are concerned for the Met Office. They have already …
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Storm Christoph
My hunch on Saturday about this week’s low ending up being named Christoph has turned out right. The Met Office have also ramped up …
Possible flooding east of the Pennines
I have been pondering this amber warning for heavy rain on Tuesday and Wednesday issued by the UKMO yesterday and looking at the latest …
Wet week ahead in northwest England and west of Wales
Most of the frontal and cyclonic activity is forecast to be focused across parts of northwest and southwest England and the west of Wales …
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Snow lying in NWP animations from the Met Office
It may not be news to you, and it maybe that I’m not the most observant of people out there, but as far as …
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15-16 Jan 2021 – overnight precipitation
There was a sound I hadn’t heard for a good few years as the frost lifted yesterday evening, and that was the sound of …
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 …
Regional rainfall in 2020
In the nine regional UKP regional areas of the UK the 365 day anomalies expressed as a percentage of the 1981-2010 LTA are all …