United Kingdom & Ireland
I’m on BBC Radio 4’s ‘What’s The Point Of? tomorrow @ 9am or 9.30pm. Tune in! FM: 92.5–96.1 or online http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06418l5 The Met Office What’s the Point of…?, Series 7 Episode 1 of 4 Quentin Letts begins a new series casting a critical but amicable eye across institutions at the heart of British life, asking the question […]
For folks across Ireland and Scotland in particular, it’s just another autumn day in summer. Just another low that shouldn’t be affecting us at a time. The past two summers we’re quite different with plenty of opportunity to wear shorts, sun screen and enjoy a BBQ. Blame the COLD Atlantic as well as the sharp gradient between colder […]
I will be the first to say that I have put out some disappointing and poor seasonal forecasts but also some highly successful ones. Comes with the territory. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Probably my most notable of successful seasonal forecasts was winter 2009-10 which went against the mild, wet trend and went against a lot of ‘warm forecasts’. It even got […]
While temperatures climbed into the respectable 24-27C category today (Sunday) across Southern and Eastern England, cloud and outbreaks of rain kept Northern Ireland and Scotland disappointing. Now where have you heard that before? Hum. While tonight’s a wet and breezy one, we actually have a warm front lifting north and during tomorrow (Monday), skies should […]
This has been a remarkable meteorological July for the UK and indeed England. With double the normal rainfall over parts of Scotland while temperature extremes and records have occurred on both ends of the scale at both ends of the month. The month started like this… ended like this! It averaged out below normal. [s2If […]
This has been a disappointing summer for many, particularly for western and northern parts of the British Isles and Ireland. However, from a meteorological standpoint, it’s been fascinating, quite extreme and probably has been one of the weirdest and most extreme that I can remember. We started with the UK’s hottest July reading of 36.7C […]
Following record cold days and sustained below normal temperatures following the initial hot surge, July will wind up cooler-than-normal across at least 90% of the UK. The only place which may be average or slightly above in the SE corner of England. Just look at how cold the last 7 day mean has been. No surprise […]
Thought I would share a few pics from our family day out to Deep Sea World over in North Queensferry, Fife on Sunday. Also, this came up on my facebook page this morning. Our second baby scan exactly 2 years ago today. What a difference 2 years makes!
What a difference a year makes… especially for Glasgow. This was the frequent scene during July last year, coinciding beautifully with the biggest sporting event in Scottish history was well underway in Glasgow. Snippet from post July 27, 2014 According to the Met Office, Friday saw the high at Glasgow’s official recording station at Bishopton, near the Airport […]
Yesterday was about as cold as it gets on a July afternoon. Check out these noon values against the normals from yesterday. My dash temp around 1pm in Cumbernauld yesterday. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] The high only managed an October-like 10C (50F) at Salsburgh in the Scottish Borders yesterday and under cloud and steady rain once again today for Northern […]
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