Wind
Repeat after me – a gust of 34 knots or higher does not make a gale
It is one thing having a gust of gale force and a true gale. Stav obviously thinks the country is experiencing a true gale quite widely today, but he is wrong and it’s misleading. But apart …
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Wendy not that windy as Met Office modify their warning
The Met Office eventually did modify their yellow wind warning for strong wind which they originally had issued on Friday morning, but it took them till 0827 BST this morning to do it! That meant the …
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Models back off with Wendy
The various models have got their knickers in a twist about how low Wendy will develop overnight as it runs eastward across Scotland. The latest consensus from four of the worlds NWP models is that it …
Strong wind warning for Sunday?
The latest NWP forecasts do show a strong potential for a spell of severe gales across the northern Scotland on Sunday morning. Let’s see if the UKMO sit this one out as they so often do …
Highest gusts in last 24 hours
Nowhere was immune from gale force gusts in the last 24 hours, and only Malin head saw storm force gusts and a full gale for a couple of hours.
Juliane a retrograde kind of low
My quite fanciful analysis of today’s 12 UTC chart but what the hell. It’s quite unusual that you get a retrograde kind of low like Juliane is forecast to be. Pressure is already falling quite nicely …
What about the northeast Louise?
Apparently Louise Lear thinks that low Juliane, heading across the North Sea quicker than any ferry from Esbjerg to Aberdeen, will bring strong winds to the northwest of the UK. Well the ECMWF model suggests that …
Yesterday’s sea breeze along the Moray coast
Well yesterday’s sea breeze did finally come ashore along the Moray coast, but it left it till well after 16 UTC at Lossiemouth and at nearby Kinloss it never really managed to shake it off at …
Friday 29 May 2020 – 12 UTC temperature anomalies
Not only were the central Highlands of Scotland the warmest place across the country at 12 UTC today, it also saw the highest anomalies, widely 10°C higher than the LTA. Interestingly the anomaly at Aviemore of …
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I wonder if they’re thinking they should have made that yellow warning area a little larger?
The winds are quite lively over parts of England and Wales this afternoon. I wonder if the UKMO are now regretting not taking low Gudrun a little bit more seriously and extending their yellow warning area …
Met Office finally spring into action!
I can’t understand why the UKMO were so reluctant to issue a yellow warning for strong winds for later this afternoon for western Scotland. The NWP models have all been very consistent about how low Gudrun …
Low Gudrun
So the UKMO finally issue a yellow warning for strong wind for Friday, but they reckon that gusts of 50 to 60 mph will only affect Northern Ireland and nowhere else? Obviously they know more than …
UKMO playing it a little too cool?
The Met Office are playing it cool about issuing a warning for the forecast strong winds associated with low Gudrun later this week. Met Eireann wisely on the other hand have already issued a yellow warning …
Winter 2019-20 fifth stormiest since 1871
Although there were only five named storms in the winter of 2019-20 [DJF] as far as I can see, the mean gale index of 30.1, as calculated in the objective Lamb weather data series by the …
Was a warning totally necessary?
I am not sure that the yellow warning for strong winds for the southwest overnight was totally necessary. Winds this strength affecting north of the border would attract little attention from Exeter. With regard to this …
Yesterday evening’s highest gusts
I will leave you to make your mind up about the accuracy of this graphic of extreme wind gusts from the UKMO model for yesterday evening. The core of the highest gusts from low Zlatina look …
19-21 April 2020 – Highest gusts
Not quite as windy today across the country, but the easterly was certainly funneling up the strath here in Strathpeffer this afternoon, adding air brakes to our cycle home to slow us down as we were …
Lee low
Plenty of lee wave effects across the north of Scotland this afternoon visible on both the plotted chart and in satellite imagery, and some very low dew point air coming down off the Cairngorms with relative …
Wild weather in Iceland over the weekend
As low Ranidia developed and rushed towards Iceland on Sunday it pushed a warm front ahead of it which gave Iceland a spell of heavy drifting snow over the weekend with gale force northeasterly winds, before …
Gey windy in the north
Bright and breezy across the north of Scotland today after the clearance of the cold front early this morning. One or two fleeting showers making it across the mountains into Easter Ross as the morning went …
Warmest day of year so far
Temperatures reached 21°C at a number of places across London and in parts of Wales today under blue skies and plenty of strong April sunshine, and might have peaked even high when the 06-18 maximum temperatures …
Good old Met Office
There are no warnings of strong wind in force today from the Met Office. But Meteoalarm reveals that’s not the case in other countries across Europe. Portugal have warnings issued for gusts of 75 kph on …
An Egyptian low
I am indebted to Helen Willets about news of a low pressure system that formed across Egypt yesterday and which is now running into the eastern Mediterranean sea, and which brought some unusual flooding to Cairo …