It’s going to be a tad windy Saturday over Ireland and Great Britain. Especially on western coasts. Storm Kathleen has been named by the Irish Meteorological Service.
My favourite weather show is The Met Office Deep Dive. This week’s episode is available. And includes a segment on why the Northern Lights are so prevalent recently. I haven’t got to that segment yet.
The latest UK Met Office weather deep dive video is out. It has a remarkable map showing how wet it was in England during February compared to the average.
I found the issue. The Met Office integration is broken. I was trying to post the temperature and the entity is unavailable. Does anyone know how to contact the #metoffice to report this?
2024-02-14 14:31:56.003 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for 'metoffice': Dependency is disabled - Integration library not compatible with Python 3.12
So if you thought that yesterday's record was alarming enough, well you can now add another 0.3C to it, to now +1.6C (2.9F) over the previous UK January record. #Achfary recorded 19.9C (67.8F).
Not good at all, but also unsurprising now.
But we also know that all the usual self-appointed 'experts' will still be out saying 20C in January is 'totally normal'.
Or maybe it was a fleet of jets hovering over the Stevenson screen again.
Arse. Amber wind warning for Northern Ireland and parts of northern GB from Sunday at 18:00 to 09:00 on Monday morning. Yellow warnings also in place outside of the Amber region.
The weather for the UK and Ireland looks shit for the next week.
Cold until Saturday.
Windy as fluck on Sunday and into Monday.
Calm on Tuesday.
Then normal Atlantic winter weather from Wednesday. Westerly winds and Atlantic lows rolling in.
Storm Gerrit will bring strong winds and heavy rain to many parts of the UK on Wednesday, with wintry hazards also likely, especially across northern Scotland.
Met Office predicting that 1.5°c may be exceeded in 2024:
. "we expect two new global temperature record-breaking years in succession, and, for the first time, we are forecasting a reasonable chance of a year temporarily exceeding 1.5 °C” .
When the UK #MetOffice app predicts three hours of heavy rain - in the next three hours - with 90% confidence you might expect at least some heavy rain.