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As it is still early in the winter season (and the air is still relatively humid and the seas are warm), we have had some heavy hoar frost deposits up here in Northern Scotland over recent weeks (thanks to abundant clear skies and light winds). At this time of year, it is a struggle for the Sun to r...

Nicolas Yes a nice easterly month: But interestingly, from a statistically point of view Cork in Ireland is equally as wet in an easterly as in a westerly. And I spotted this: On Oct 3rd, Valentia (nearby Co. Kerry) had 105.5mm daily total on 3rd October - one of the highest 24hr falls on record at ...

Greetings from the far NW of Scotland, where October has been the 2nd driest on record in Stornoway since 1873. Total precipitation was 36.0mm at the airport (less than one third of normal); only the October of 1946 was drier. So it's almost a 1-in-a-century event (but with some caveats, see below)....

I thought I'd share today's multi-plot from the METEK micro-rain radar (MRR) in Stornoway. It shows the advance of today's warm front over the region very clearly: tn_11Sep2016-MRR-Warm-Front-B.jpg The four panels show (clockwise from top left): Fall Velocity (ms-1), Raw Reflectivity (dBZ), Doppler ...

Hi Nicolas Up here in Stornoway, I'm happy to report that August ended in considerably better style that it had begun... and the mildness continues now into the first week of September. Overall air temperature, precipitation and sunshine ended up very close to the long-term regional average, but the...

Hi Nicolas Yes, what a difference a week makes! Indeed, I should really have 'held fire' posting last week - even after 45 years of life, the vagaries of our weather continue to take me by surprise... Yes you are spot-on, it's been a glorious past week here with wall-to-wall sunshine (the only excep...

The 2nd dreadful summer in a row continues here in NW Scotland, with nearly 3 inches of rain falling over the past week (6 inches since 20 July), and there's been zero sunshine for 5 days-in-a-row now (following a total of only 73hrs in July). We may yet have the wettest summer on record, based on 1...

Well still a few hours to go until July ends climatologically at 09h tomorrow morning... but I can provisionally confirm the following for Stornoway for this month: - Total precip will be around 145mm (roughly 200% of normal, and the 3rd wettest July in 145 year series for the region since 1873, out...

Funny Greg - the summer of 1975, that was my very earliest weather memory! I was just a tiny tot in Ireland back then and it was my brother's birthday on 4/8/1975 - there was glorious weather. Many years later, I checked the records, and discovered that Dublin Airport reached a new record high that ...

Hi Nicolas Your talk of grapes and vintage vine crops has made me a little envious, I have to say! But yes, I recall clearly the summer of 1995 - I was in the Netherlands then (there, it was a record warm, but rather thundery wet summer), returning to Reading in August (where the grass of the Uni ca...