UKMO model overdoing the rain
It is always difficult to pin the Met Office down with their refusal to make publicly available any of their NWP data, but I …
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High pressure firmly in charge
I see that high pressure is firmly in charge for most of us today across IONA. Fortunately I think the radar is overdoing the …
4 June 2021 – Today’s rain
Today’s rain has fallen in what is probably the driest region in the whole of the UK and IONA.Mixed results from estimates some too …
A little more oomph to the cold front
There seems to have been a little more oomph to the cold front that’s trying to get into the northwest of Scotland than was …
The front that refused to die
The warm cold frontal system that become quasi-stationary as it moved into western districts of the UK yesterday has proved to be a real …
27-28 May 2021 – Nuisance rain
There was close to 50 mm of nuisance rain over the Wicklow and Blackstairs mountains in the southeast of Ireland in the last 36 …
25 May 2021 – 14 UTC analysis
Another thoroughly wet and rather cold day across the southwest with a breakaway wave running E’SE across the tip of Cornwall at 14 UTC …
23-25 May 2021 – rainfall from low Nathan
Thankfully it wasn’t quite as wet here as it seems to have been at Weston Park in Sheffield overnight. Stornoway is the place to …
23-24 May 2021 – rainfall
Another wet 24 hours or so across IONA, that is away from some parts of Eastern England. A little surprised that there is no …
Low Nathan
A terrific satellite image of low Nathan with it’s active cold front that would put many a winter low to shame. I find it …
Sharp back edge to cold front
There’s a sharp back edge to the precipitation on the cold front down the Irish Sea at the moment. There’s also that distinctive ribbon …
20-21 May – Rain from Marco
A mixed set of results for my estimates of rainfall accumulations during the last 24 hours from low Marco, some too low, others too …
More troughs in the forecast
Chris Fawkes seems to have got a bee in his bonnet about troughs in his forecasts at the moment. Today he has identified yet …
More on that rain in the southwest of England
I have been downloading radar data with an application that I wrote for the last ten years. It downloads 5 minute tiled images and …
Met Office get caught out by heavy rain in own backyard
The results from NWP models these days are truly astounding, but just very occasionally weather services can get caught out even in the short …
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Flash flooding from cloud bursts
I don’t know if it’s just me, or if it’s down to the very showery nature of this May, but the lunchtime ECMWF forecast …
8-9 May 2021 – Rainfall
The yellow warning of heavy rain across south Wales was well forecast by the NWP of the UKMO. A few clusters of orange pixels …
5/6 May 2021 – Overnight snow
I believe that last nights snow which affected a large part of Scotland came from a relatively narrow band of precipitation that extended south …
Low Eugen – precipitation accumulations
There wasn’t a yellow warning issued by the Met Office for heavy rain from low Eugen, but I think that there should have been, …
April showers overrun into May
I don’t think that I’ve ever seen a montage of weather radar images put together like this before, but my memory being as bad …
Ghost trough
Why we spend millions on a weather radar network, poor as the resolution is across the north, just to ignore it does make you …
28/29 Apr 2021 – Areal rainfall extent
I came across this viewer that I had added to my Web Radar application when I first wrote it over ten years ago but …
28/29 Apr 2021 – Rainfall
I can see why Lincolnshire escaped yesterday’s showers but I can’t see why it wasn’t wetter across East Anglia. The only thing I can …
27/28 Apr 2021 – Southeast living a charmed life
The extreme southeast of England was living a charmed life yesterday as far as rainfall was concerned. The drought has now lasted a full …
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