A gusty cold front
I still can’t understand why Storm Christoph hasn’t been awarded a warning for strong winds yet, hell it’s already got one for heavy rain, …
Wind
Yellow warning for blizzards
I feel that I must apologise, for what reason I don’t know because no one down in Exeter ever reads this heretical blog, about …
Sure about heavy rain – not so sure about strong winds and blizzards
Storm Christoph is going to make it a very busy week as far as warnings are concerned for the Met Office. They have already …
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Gusts to 58 knots at South Uist
The Met Office may think they have got all the warnings bar the one for the kitchen sink in force overnight, but it looks …
Annual 2020 awards for windiest days
It is hard to believe that the place with the highest number of wettest days in the WMO block #03 during 2020 is also …
Stornoway wind veer
The gale force northerly wind that’s been blowing for seven straight hours at Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis with frequent gusts to 49 …
Intense piteraq blows itself out
An intense piteraq in Ikermiit eastern Greenland which started in the early hours of Christmas day has just about blown itself out after 48 …
Storm Bella
Another rather unmemorable named storm event overnight. A windy night admittedly, with coastal gales along western and southern coasts. The highest gust that I’ve …
No warnings for western Isles
Despite gusts of 66 mph at South Uist in the western Isles of Scotland at 13 UTC today, the UKMO have decided to exclude …
Bella targets Wales
Storm Bella seems to have the south and west of Wales south of Anglesey firmly fixed in her targeting sights for Saturday night, that’s …
Storm Bella it’s official
The deep low across northern Scotland and the strong southwesterly winds it will bring later on Boxing day and into the early hours of …
Nostradamus strikes again
The southwesterly winds during the late evening of Boxing day and into Sunday are still forecast to be severe gale or even storm force …
Great minds think alike
Great minds think alike! I just pipped the Met Office in my last blog to this warning for strong winds during the 26-27th from …
Nothing to write home about
The strongest winds from low Duglore have so far proved to be nothing to write home about. The windiest spots overnight were all in …
Yellow warning for strong wind updated
An area of strong wind is expected to affect western parts of the UK on Wednesday. Wind gusts of 55-60 mph are likely for …
The Emerald Isle
The strong winds on Wednesday surround the Emerald Isle in purple indicating maximum gusts as high as 66 knots during that period, that’s according …
Heatstroke, sunburn AND windburn all in one go !!
The spring is warming up down under with temperatures of 40°C and 10 minute mean wind speeds of 30 knots or more at Sydney …
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Fiery low may become subtropical
There’s a 30% chance according to the NHC that the fiery low that I mentioned yesterday may take on subtropical characteristics, either way it …
Another good forecast
A little late on getting this story out because I had to do some work on the application I use to analyse wind speeds …
Wednesday’s curious low
The ECMWF model has picked up on a secondary low which is a rather curious but vigorous little feature later this week. It forms …
1 November 2020 – wind speeds
The winds of Sunday never quite matched up to those on Halloween. For all my huffing and puffing the Met Office were right to …
Southwesterlies ramping up across Hebrides
The southwesterly wind, which touched storm force 10 briefly late yesterday afternoon, is increasing once again across South Uist and is currently blowing severe …