Explosive deepening of Storm Alex
It looks like Meteo France are not being rushed into naming Friday’s low storm Alex, so the Met Office are being forced to play the waiting game, even though the low is forecast to undergo explosive …
Rainfall
Binbrook wet spot
I noticed a hot spot, or should that be a wet spot, right along the northern part of the Lincolnshire wolds from the heavy rain that fell from storm Odette. I spent four of the more …
Bracing down the east coast with gusts of 58 knots at Donna Nook
Well done to the Met Office with their yellow wind warning for strong wind they issued yesterday, who says that I’m always critical of them? Although I will say they did leave the start time for …
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Overnight rainfall totals
There was a fairly large area of rainfall totals across western Scotland that exceeded 40 mm yesterday, and across higher ground estimated totals were well in excess of 80 mm. I thought that I would just …
September 2020 – another rather dry month in places
The first three weeks of September 2020 have turned out to have been rather dry in many places across England especially the far southeast and close to the channel coast.
Today’s heavy rain in the west of Scotland
I am not quite sure if the weather radar images are over estimating the rain that’s been falling so far today in the west of Scotland, but if they aren’t I think totals of 50 to …
This weekend’s heavy rain
I will let you be the judge of just how accurate the third Met Office warning was for this weekend’s rain. If you believe the estimated accumulations from weather radar it maybe should have been extended …
More gobbledygook from the Met Office
This morning the Met Office updated their yellow warning of heavy rain for western Scotland for later on Saturday and through into Sunday. The reason for their update, as far as I can make out is …
A wet weekend ahead for some, dry and warmer for others
I shouldn’t imagine the weather this weekend will be too good if you’re on holiday stuck in Fort William this weekend. With the wind and all the rain this has all the hallmarks of a local …
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Latest 365 day UK regional rainfall totals
The 365 day precipitation totals from the gridded UKP data are currently well above average in all regions of the UK bar the north of Scotland. I reckon this is a fairly unusual situation in that …
Vague periodicity in annual rainfall in SE England
I am forever looking for cycles in weather graphs, my eye just seems to catch them no matter how vague or real any periodicity is. There does seem to be some kind of a 6 or …
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27 August 2020 – Heavy rain & thunderstorms
Yesterday was a strange kind of weather day as low ‘Lynn’ deepened across the south producing a lot of thunderstorms and heavy rain in the process. As you may know if you are a regular reader …
The odd warning of heavy rain for central and southeast England *updated*
The Met Office have issued a rather odd yellow warning of heavy rain for the southeast and central southern England at 1100 BST valid for the period 1130 till 1900 BST today. I say odd because …
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Met Office lowers threshold for named storms to increase their number
Remember you read it here first If you remember on Saturday I posted that Tuesday’s low might end up being named storm Francis, and for once, because I’ve often attempted this, I was correct. But I …
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Quite surprised there’s no yellow warning out for heavy rain this afternoon
I am quite surprised that the UKMO haven’t taken the trouble to issue a yellow warning for heavy rain this afternoon, at least across Northern Ireland. Estimated accumulations of 10 mm in the space of 30 …
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Rain from storm Ellen
The funny radius across western Ireland was because the Shannon radar was u/s for a time yesterday. In light of this radar image maybe I should amend my analysis for 23 UTC?
August 2020 – rainfall so far this month
Sometimes a map of rainfall totals from a fixed number of sites doesn’t paint the full picture especially in a thundery month like August 2020. It will be very interesting to see what the colour contoured …
17 August 2020 – Overnight rainfall
It is amazing how many of these high rainfall events always manage to slip between the rain gauges in the SYNOP network. This one in Norfolk was a much larger >80mm event than the one in …
Flooding in Essex
Just a few white pixels indicating estimated accumulations in excess of 80 mm across parts of Essex late yesterday were enough to cause flooding in the centre of Chelmsford. There were of a similar intensity to …
South pay the price for their recent heatwave
It looks like the south are paying the price for their recent heatwave in the form of continued scattered heavy thunderstorms through the rest of the week.
Overnight rainfall totals
Some small white pixels indicating totals greater than 80mm in this estimate of 24 hour rainfall ending at 06 UTC on the 13th August. Largish totals from Shawbury and Hereford from their SYNOP reports which fit …