For the first time this autumn, the Metcheck service has something on its FrostRisk pages for the areas I check. In fact, it’s giving a 55% chance of frost in my home area tonight:
And Met Éireann, although they don’t use the word frost, are saying temperatures might drop to 4C, which is just about low […]
Last year, we had the first frost on the 27th of October (and here’s a fantastic frost photograph by Wojciech Szczygieł, taken near Courtown in Co. Wexford).
Average first frost dates are hard to find online, but the general feeling seems to be that up until the mid-nineties, first frosts happened in late September. These days, […]
The Metcheck site has a weather warning up - high winds, up to storm force, from an Atlantic low, affecting Western and Northern Scotland, and to a lesser degree the West of Ireland and Southern Scotland. They say:
“Southwesterly gales are expected to quickly develop on Tuesday morning across northern and western Scotland, becoming severe across […]
Two of the long-range forecasts have now appeared.
Weather Online has a forecast up for the full winter, and say an “emphasis seems to be on cooler conditions with February possibly being very cold.”
The Weather Outlook has an autumn forecast up, and they reckon it’s going to be a bit stormier than usual (we’ve seen some […]