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 …
Weather Radar
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
13-14 Jan 2021 – precipitation
I decided to grey out totals for less than 25 mm in this chart. I’m sure my estimated accumulations are probably way of the …
Today’s weather radar
The weather radar images have been displaying some intense precipitation rates today along the approaching warm front. As far as I can see much …
January sick and tired you’ve been hanging on me
It has been a very wet 24 hours wet across the west of Scotland. My second colour scheme ran out of colours when totals …
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Another magic snow and ice warning that only becomes valid after 17 UTC
The rain, sleet and snow is proving a little bit stubborn to die out across parts of northern England this afternoon. Much of the …
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Last night’s cold front
Wednesday evening ended up being quite wet across the northwest Highlands, although my estimated accumulation of 8.3 mm for Strathpeffer looks decidedly over the …
6 January 2020 11 UTC – visible satellite image
Another great satellite image today of IONA and western Europe. Fabulously sunny morning across the snowfields of the Scottish Highlands this morning but frontal …
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 …
A good example of “scattered showers”
I couldn’t resist this weather radar image showing a good example of the term “scattered showers” affecting the east of both England and Scotland …
Someone’s been peeping!
I think someone at the Met Office finally took the advice I offered them in my last blog. The snow warning in force for …
“Elsewhere, most places will see little or no snow”
The showers on the radar that I mentioned in the North Sea that I mentioned yesterday evening did eventually make it to Edinburgh, in …
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Six inches of partly cloudy
One of the few areas in Scotland that wasn’t covered by a yellow snow and ice warning from the UKMO yesterday was Caithness, Sutherland …
Yesterday’s heavy rain
It was a good job the Met Office decided on Tuesday to extend their yellow warning for heavy rain northward as most places south …
Winter Solstice
The winter solstice takes place on Monday, 21st of December 2020 at 10:02 UTC A feature of the weather so far today has been the massive shield …
18 December 2020 – rainfall totals
Estimated rainfall accumulations from weather radarGreyscaled totals below 25 mm Overall a pretty good yellow heavy rain warning for England and Wales yesterday from …
Rainfall totals since midnight
Nothing too exceptional as far as rainfall accumulations are concerned and these estimates are from midnight and not 09 UTC. The wettest spots so …
Well done – but what about Caithness and Sutherland?
I must say the Met Office did very well with their yellow warning for heavy rain across northeast Scotland. The only problem was is …
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Wet in the northeast of Scotland
It’s been a very wet 24 hours along the coastal strip of Caithness and Aberdeenshire with 50-60 mm of rain accumulating in the wettest …