The values of the maximum rainfall accumulations in their amended and shortened yellow warning for heavy rain look fairly reasonable, maybe totals were a little higher over the highest ground across Argyl, but they forgot to …
The old occlusion (in all reality a cold front) that has been edging south for the last 36 hours or so has refused to die gracefully, and has deposited as much as 40 to 50 mm …
Results from my rainfall estimates from weather radar were a bit mixed over the last 30 hours. My estimate for Capel Curig was too high whilst the estimate for Keswick was on the low side. That’s …
I notice that the yellow warning for heavy rain has been updated by the Met Office to cover the north and west of Scotland. Wise move, as it’s already been bucketing down here in the strath …
A very fierce looking weather radar image this evening as the waving cold front crosses Northern Ireland with a squall line across Belfast. The great Glen is the demarcation zone between the heavy rain across the …
Thursday was easily the wettest day of the last week of thundery weather across IONA, and as far as I can see none of the rain that fell across the southwest was the result of thunderstorms. …
A lovely day at last in Easter Ross for a change, after what were three dull, humid and overcast days. Even late this afternoon there were the first signs of high speed stratus on the horizon …
A fifth day of thunderstorms across central and southern parts of the UK, and if yesterday’s thunderstorms hadn’t dampened things down a touch, then another band of moderate or heavy overnight rain finished the job off. …
A dreadful last few days north of Inverness. Rather humid and cloudy with fog and low cloud in the mornings gradually clearing to reveal another layer of upper low or medium cloud during the afternoon, with …
Another day with thunderstorms across the northwest of England. They seemed to have been well placed this week to the northeast of what remains of this old vortex to find them spiraling up towards them from …
Whatever mesoscale model the UKMO are using to predict where and when thunderstorms are likely to break out looks like it requires some tweaking, because this is the second day it’s missed thunderstorms that have formed …
I did wonder if yesterday evening’s thunderstorms that spread northwest across the heart of central England were ever going to materialise, but they finally make it across northwest England at around 19 UTC. It’s notoriously difficult …
The east coast of both England and Scotland has been quite dry for a good long while now, but the coast of Yorkshire and Durham seem to have made up a bit for it yesterday with …
Not a knotted handkerchief kind of day at Scarborough Read More »
A sharp cut off in the heaviest precipitation across west Wales and southwest England in overnight rainfall totals. Somerset got away with only a virtual splash of the heaviest rainfall that fell further west, the heaviest …
Showers across the Dartmoor and Bodmin moor in the southwest were probably the result of some local convergence, or maybe it was just the hills triggering them off. Meanwhile it’s been a lovely sunny afternoon across …
Benson seems to be well placed at the moment to escape the rain that’s been affected the country in the last 24 hours. Yesterday it got away with just 1.2 mm missing out on all the …
The south and southwest seem to have got away with very little rain in the last 24 hours by the looks of my rainfall estimates from weather radar. The bulk of the rain from low Juliane …
It’s raining at 10 UTC this morning at Benson, the first time in over a month. What it’ll amount to when they report their 06 to 12 UTC total is anyone’s guess, hopefully it will be …
Historic moment as Benson see’s its first rainfall in over a month Read More »
It may have been “a very weak weather front” according to Darren Bett, in yesterday’s evening weather forecast on the BBC, but this fly in the ointment did produce a fair amount of rain across the …
Highest rainfall accumulations in the Lochaber region of Scotland for the last 40 hours or so (since 18 UTC on the 21st of May) indicate that there has been between 175 and 200 mm of rainfall …
The heavy rain on the occluding front across Northern Scotland looks pretty spectacular on individual frames of the weather radar, but thankfully its moving at a rapid rate of knots. The rain shadow effect has also …
Sunday wasn’t half as bad as it was forecast to be that the NWP models in the lead up to this weekend across Easter Ross and the afternoon was bright with sunny intervals although feeling quite …
It’s not that often that you can trace the cold front in both the weather radar and satellite images as well as in the plotted observations so clearly, but you can with today’s that’s currently close …
Unfortunately we live close to the wettest place in the UK yesterday and I can testify to the fact that yesterday afternoon was pretty dire with outbreaks of heavy rain up here, and which continued into …