Recycled Yellow warnings
If this warning of snow and strong winds from the Met Office looks familiar it should do, it’s very similar to the ones they …
Wind
6 Apr 2021 – Gust to 62 knots at Baltasound at 14 UTC
A gusts of 62 knots in the force nine N’NW’ly gale at Baltasound as that strange little synoptic feature ran southward to the east …
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Spare a though for those in the far north
Spare a though for those who live in the far north, and by that I mean the northern Isles. They’ve seen a severe spell …
4/5 Apr 2021 – Overnight gusts
Some pretty fierce gusts of winds overnight in conjunction with the heavy showers of hail and snow across the north. The 75 mph gust …
What’s wrong with Tórshavn?
There’s a problem with the anemometer at Tórshavn (WMO #06011). The problem has existed for many years and as far as I know its …
Met Office see sense
The Met Office have finally seen sense and decided this morning to include the Northern Isles in their weather warnings of snow and strong …
27-28 Mar 2021 – A breezy 24 hours
In weathercaster speak it’s been a rather breezy 24 hours across IONA. Met Eireann did have a warning out for the strong winds yesterday, …
A parched March
It is not uncommon to get a dry anticyclonic March across IONA and so far this one is looking a little on the dry …
Missed warning
It seems the Met Office must have exceeded their quota of yellow wind warnings because the peak gusts overnight, which were higher than those …
What a difference a day makes
I don’t exactly know what went on down in the BBC Weather department yesterday with the forecast gusts of 85 mph for this afternoon, …
11 Mar 2021 – 10 UTC gusts
The bent back occlusion has just cleared the east coast of England at 10 UTC but it’s still a very windy morning across the …
UKMO Rovers 1 Meteogroup United 1
I realise the yellow warning for strong wind runs until 15 UTC, so call these charts the preliminary results from storm Klaus (with a …
Who says just how windy it’s going to get – BBC Meteogroup or the UKMO?
The BBC Meteogroup weathercasters just can’t seem to agree on just how windy it’ll get later today and tomorrow across the UK. Meteogroup are …
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Last chance saloon
I wonder if the UKMO will revisit their yellow wind warning for strong winds on Wednesday and Thursday this morning? The latest ECMWF model …
The St Valentine days storm – the one that got away
There have been only six named storms so far this season, and only three of those were named by the UKMO, although there was …
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Storm Evert everted for now
The latest model runs are continuing to back off the idea of storm force winds affecting the country later this week and the UKMO …
Storm Evert on Wednesday?
The ECMWF and GFS models seem to have come back into a broad agreement that although this coming Wednesday will a very windy day, …
GFS out on a limb with this forecast *updated
On the face of it the GFS model seems to be out on a limb in how it’s forecasting a significantly deeper and more …
Rushed warning from UKMO
Looks like someone forgot to check the wording of this yellow warning of strong winds tomorrow for western Scotland. A second person should always …
24 hours of severe gales and hurricane force gusts boil down to a yellow warning for strong wind
The southeasterly wind has been meaning between gale force eight and ten for the last thirty fours hours or so on South Uist, with …
14 Feb 2021 – 11 UTC analysis
The snow’s thawing remarkably quickly this morning down the strath which is always a depressing site as far as I’m concerned, so I thought …
Steadily increasing winds at Tiree
The southeasterly winds have been steadily increasing for the last three days at Tiree. They have been at gale force for the last seventeen …
Severe gales on Sunday
The Met Office have a problem regarding the gales on Sunday across northwest of the country, they’ve gone for 65 to 75 mph possibly …
Easterly winds and the A835
The fresh to strong easterly wind has been blowing since early on Tuesday across northern Scotland, and it looks likely that it’ll keep blowing …