Misplaced rain across N Scotland
The UKMO model has been having problems fixing where rain is going to fall across Scotland for a while now, and it’s the same …
Rainfall
June 2021 – Latest rainfall figures
It seems that UK climate stats are all the vogue these days and everyone has done a latest June rainfall story so here’s mine. …
18 June 2021 – Quite a day
Since midnight rainfall estimates from weather radar suggest there has been around 60 to 70 mm of rain in the wettest places across Hampshire …
Cold and wet in the southeast, heavy thunderstorms in southern North Sea
It is all happening across the southeast of the country today. Lunchtime temperature anomalies are close to 7°C below the LTA around the Capital …
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More heavy rain for southeast
There was more heavy rain in parts of the southeast overnight. The highest rainfall totals looked to have been across Hampshire, where hurricanes hardly …
16-17 June 2021 – Overnight thunderstorms
A large thunderstorm tracked N’NE across Sussex and Kent into the North Sea with 46 mm of rain at Manston. Quite a sharp back …
16 June 2021 – Hourly weather radar accumulations
Quite an eventful evening across the southeast with more storms to follow later in the night. In contrast there’s a lovely rosy red sunset …
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The price you pay
Looks like a pretty wet four days to come for parts of southeast England, which I suppose is the price that you have to …
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 …
Close to drought at Baltasound
I was surprised when I ran these diagnostics on rainfall over the last month and found how many stations were close to absolute drought …
Trends in UK seasonal precipitation since 1862
Summers [JJA] since 1862 in the UK have become slightly drier (-0.1 mm per decade) in the linear trends of UK gridded series since …
May 2021 – Latest 12 month rainfall stats
Despite the dry April across all regions the latest gridded regional (UKP) precipitation twelve month accumulations show that the North of Scotland (98.5%) is …
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 …
May 2021 – Very wet in Wales drier in north
May was a wet month. It was particularly wet across Wales and the southwest, but much drier across the north. According to my stats …
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 …
A wet May
The percentage of average rainfall for May 2021 has dropped a little at Bala from the other day, it’s now just 377% of average …
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 …
Driest April for years followed by the wettest May
You would have thought that May 2021 is heading for the record books with the amount of rain we’ve seen so far this month. …
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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 …
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 …
NE Scotland set to get clobbered again
I was always told in geography lessons as a child at school that the prevailing winds across our green and pleasant land (forget about …
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 …