Latest England Wales rainfall figures
All the talk of a drought recently seem to have evaporated at least for the moment after the thundery rain of last month pepped up the figures. Talk of a drought in what has been a …
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June 2020 – monthly weather summary
Here are the anomalies for the three basic weather elements in June 2020 using the new updated map of the UK with Shetland no longer in a box. Rather surprisingly, Scotland had the highest mean temperature …
They forgot about Snowdonia again!
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 …
More extreme weather events with planetary warming
Author: Grahame Madge 15:00 (UTC+1) on Thu 2 Jul 2020 As the planet warms, the intensity, frequency and duration of extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall is expected to increase. Corresponding decreases in cool …
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Old front refuses to die
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 …
June 2020 – precipitation
June 2020 was a bit like the Curate’s egg in that it was very wet in places whilst being closer to average elsewhere. The driest place seem to have been along the south coast of England …
UK Rainfall since 05 UTC yesterday
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 …
Heavy rain warning updated
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 …
Just for a change
Just for a change the focus of the heaviest rain in the next ten days, looks likely to be across the southwest of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northwest England, thats if this ECMWF forecast proved to …
This evenings cold front
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 …
Dry spell? What dry spell?
With three weeks gone in June, and as we are enter into summer proper, the recent dry spell of spring 2020 seems to have ended quite abruptly in the majority of places across IONA with thunderstorms …
Yesterday’s “steady rain”
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. …
High speed stratus
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 …
Fifth day of thunderstorms
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 fourth day of thunderstorms
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 …
Yesterday’s thundery downpours
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 …
Thunderstorms show up late
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 …
Not a knotted handkerchief kind of day at Scarborough
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 …
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Overnight rainfall totals
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 …
Flaming June
It’s been downhill all the way so far this June as far as temperatures are concerned, and it’s been rather wet in a few places as well.
Extraordinary, astounding, absolutely staggering, quite remarkable and uprecedented
I have just written some code to examine the seasonal changes of precipitation across the UK using the gridded data series from the UKMO which now extends back to 1862. I did it because I was …
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Today’s showers in the southwest
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 …
The Findhorn in spate
A friend of mine sent me these interesting pictures of the River Findhorn in Moray. The two images were taken at Randolph’s leap a local beauty spot a week apart, and show just how rapidly the …
Hit and miss rain
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 …