Spring 2021 – Drought in the southeast
With all the excitement of the snow we’ve had in the last week up here in Ross-shire I hadn’t realised just how dry it …
Weather Radar
Exceptionally snowy start to April continues
I have seen a fair few April’s whilst living in the north of Scotland from 1987 to 1995, and now again from 2018, but …
Spot the difference
It’s still snowing across the north of Scotland and if anything here in the Strath there have been more snow showers this morning than …
6 Apr 2021 – Estimated snow depths
This is a chart of total snowfall during the last 30 hours or so from the precipitation reported in the five minute weather radar …
One snow shower after the other
There has been a steady stream of snow showers streaming down in the northwesterly airstream this morning in the Strath. Perhaps five or ten …
30/31 Mar 2021 – Accumulated precipitation
Another wet day across the northwest of Scotland yesterday with estimated totals well in excess of 80 mm over large areas. It looks like …
Remarkably persistent rain
The rain that’s been falling from Sunday has been remarkably persistent across the northwest of Scotland. At places like Aultbea it’s been raining on …
29/30 Mar 2021 – Rainfall accumulations
The rain shadow north south was quite marked over the last 24 hours across Scotland. Some white pixels indicate totals over 225 mm on …
28/29 Mar 2021 – Rainfall on Scafell Pike
The heaviest of the orographic rain that fell yesterday was concentrated over the Cumbian fells once again. Despite this the Met Office had no …
Rain shadow effect
Although there have been a few spots of rain in the wind, the rain shadow across Easter Ross is working wonders so far in …
27-28 Mar 2021 – Accumulated precipitation
The deep purple pixels indicate that there has been as much as 70 mm of rainfall (estimated) in the last 24 hours across the …
Was Winchcombe wettest?
I notice on twitter that Winchcombe had 12.6 mm of rain yesterday according to the tweet by the Met Office, and was the wettest …
Wet in northern Scotland – not a bit of it
If you believed the weather radar you would have thought that it was a thoroughly wet afternoon across the north of Scotland – not …
Convergence line or old occlusion?
Chris Fawkes thinks that the line of showers aligned NW-SE across central England this morning has been brought about as the result of a …
10-11 Mar 2021 – precipitation
Now that the Stornoway radar is operational once again it makes a bit more sense to look at the wetter days such as many …
Scottish Flood Forecasting Service marks 10th Anniversary
Since we emigrated to Scotland in 2018 I think I might just add my two penneth to what seems to be a rather one-sided …
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Why do we make such little use of satellite imagery in TV forecasts?
Why do we so little use made of the latest satellite imagery in our TV weather forecasts instead of relying so heavily on NWP …
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Stornoway radar finally back online
The Stornoway radar is finally up and running after being out of action for almost a month It is not until something is missing …
23-24 Feb 2021 – a wet 48 hours as Mr Occlusion strikes again
Large areas of high ground across IONA have seen well in excess of 100 mm of rain in the last 48 hours or so …
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19-21 Feb 2021 – Welsh rainfall
There has been close to 200 mm of rainfall in the wettest spots in Snowdonia and across the Black mountains in the south in …
19-20 Feb 2021 – rainfall accumulations
The usual culprits that have seen the highest rainfall totals in the last 24 hour, with large areas of higher ground covered in white …
Snow greyscale
Because millimetres of rainfall translate quite nicely into centimetres of snow, I thought that I would change the color scale for my estimated precipitation …
7-8 Feb 2021 – estimated snowfall amounts
If you use the rough rule of thumb that for each millimeter of rain that falls you get an equivalent one centimetre of snow …
More snow for Aberdeenshire
Snow showers from the North Sea are now streaming into Aberdeenshire, and by the looks of it are penetrating a long way inland, but …