Bagpiping and singing weatherman from Scotland, keeping you up to date on the weather front!
Also raising awareness of IBD after battling it since I was 13!
We got the purple memo and brought some aurora colour to the Reporting Scotland studio tonight! I would also like to wish
@sallymag1
a very happy birthday, and next year I promise to sing you happy birthday! 🎂
Bha e math a bhith air ais ag obair còmhla ri
@annemcalp
san stiùideo Rep Scot a-raoir 📺😊
Was nice to be back in the Rep Scot studio with Anne last night.
#RepScotGaels
I think more vocative slips are needed with our handovers, and maybe even a quick song.... A Chaluim Bhig, a Chaluim Bhig, a Chaluim 's tu fo chùram... 🎵🎶😆
Today marked one year since I made my debut for BBC Scotland and, once again, I had another storm to talk about! From Storm Eunice on my debut to Storm Otto today, what a year it has been working for such an amazing team. Thanks
@sarahcrookie
@joydunlop
for taking these photos 😊
This morning we dressed up as the weather story for the day! 😄 Whilst I brought the cold and frosty blues 🥶❄️
@SarahMcMullanTV
was bringing you the sunshine☀️ Always good fun being on shift with Sarah, and thanks Pauline for the taking the picture :)
#frostybluetosunshineyellow
It is a long time since I remember such a wild night out there. Really nasty and violent conditions developing out there and the lights are starting to flicker. A very powerful gust of 76mph has been recorded at Glasgow Airport! Very wild over the next few hours! Take care folks.
A big thank you to
@SarahMcMullanTV
@JudithRalston
@wintermute1972
and all at the Seven team at BBC Scotland for the lovely surprise in using a wee video of me playing jingle bells on the bagpipes to get us all into the festive spirit. Wishing the whole team a merry Christmas😊🎄
Blending in with the
@BBCRadioScot
brand colours today in the studio with
@LauraMaxwell16
and
@BBCGaryR
for Good Morning Scotland, and then Hayley for Lunchtime Live. Even Gary was on the same 'purple-themed' wavelength! 🟣🎙️ Thank you Hayley for the picture. 💜
A wee blether about the weather. Don't panic folks there is not a hurricane on the way today, but we do have a major error with ingested data to our weather app this morning. It is being worked on and will hopefully be fixed very soon!
I was back in weather blether mode over the last couple of days. Despite the sleep deprivation, I always love being on with the morning TV and radio team at the BBC Scotland. A great wee shift with such grand folk. Now time for some much needed sleep 😴
Lovely photo with my good friend Kirsteen - one of the nicest and caring folk you could ever meet :) Next time, I will remember the purple eye patch to match the attire, and more importantly cover my sore eye 😂
Safe to say that Calum and I have been feeling rather deflated today following the troublesome snow forecast. However, despite the blue feeling, we were going for a purple dress code! 🤣
@weatherblether
Thank you very much John for such kind words! Love working with the team, and delivering the BBC weather news. It is a subject matter that has fascinated me for as long as I can remember, and I try to bring that passion to the broadcasts everyday! Thanks again :)
Good morning folks. Drier and brighter today with variable cloud and sunny spells, and showers fading through the day. A chilly north-westerly wind, will be strongest in the Northern Isles with a significant wind chill. Mildest in the southwest. Here is the latest, with Calum.
Celebrating my second time on the Nine last night, with
@BBCLauraMac
and
@imhopewebb
, by blending in to the studio set 😁 I even managed to look at the right camera this time 😂 Thanks
@_LauraArnott
for the taking these photos for me :)
#teampurple
With Christmas Day fast approaching, we were all very much getting into the festive spirit at the weekend with this Christmas classic on the bagpipes! Thanks to my good friend for taking the video🎄🎅
Very sorry folks :( The weather is a fascinating, yet at the same time, very complex science, and can at times catch out the weather models and therefore the meteorological community at short lead times, especially with snow! Today was one of those days...
I made my debut on The Nine yesterday and what a day it was for it! Hottest day of the year and big Highland thunderstorms too! Such a lovely team, with
@nick_sheridan
and
@BBCLauraMac
who I also had the great privilege of being alongside when I made my radio debut last year😊
As someone that has suffered with this horrible disease since the age of 13, I really hope such a groundbreaking discovery can lead to bigger and better treatments for IBD and, as we look into the future, perhaps even a cure!
The weather models really struggled to resolve the shape and trajectory of a complex low and its precipitation envelopes. Whilst one delivered the widespread, heavy snow to the north, the other did not deliver the forecast heavy snow to central, S Scotland and went further south.
Very sorry folks :( The weather is a fascinating, yet at the same time, very complex science, and can at times catch out the weather models and therefore the meteorological community at short lead times, especially with snow! Today was one of those days...
Bha e sònraichte math a bhith còmhla ri sàr ghàidheal is fìor dheagh charaid
@annemcalp
san stiùidio oidhche haoine :)
Was so lovely to be in the studio on Friday night with a great Gael and friend in Anne :) We even got the yellow memo 🟡😁
#GaelForce
#TeamYellow
The latest, with Calum. Late sunshine to end the day for many with showers easing back to coasts and the Isles, where it will be less cold and breezier with persistent rain into the northwest overnight. Elsewhere cold tonight with a grass frost for many, and pockets of air frost.
Was trying to brighten up the forecast today with my creamy white suit 😆 Not a bad weekend of weather ahead with blast of heat and humidity arriving for Monday for many of us, before the plume destabilises from the west as Atlantic weather fronts edge in.
As a child I would watch all of the BBC Weather broadcasts and was obsessed with the classic BBC weather symbols! My favourite being the rare triple snowflake cloud😃 For Christmas, I received this wx symbol tie and I love it. It got an airing over the weekend
#blastfromthepast
😊
Took a wee trip to lovely Loch Rannoch earlier today for the lunchtime forecast, when I again dressed as the weather story for the day 😆🌥️☀️ Love some of the drone pictures our weather watchers send in of bonnie Scotland😍
The latest with Calum. High pressure in control with sunshine and zones of fair-weather cloud. An easterly wind with broken cloud for central, southern Scotland with sunny spells; light shower risk in the south. Extensive sunshine for the Highlands, Isles and windward coasts.
Here is Calum with the latest. High pressure brings a fine day with sunshine. Fog in northern glens, where it is a cold start, will be slow to clear. An easterly breeze feeds areas of cloud into southern, and for a time central, Scotland with sunny spells and a few light showers.
@weatherblether
thanks for bringing your wonderful character and personality to the weather forecast Calum. We always delight in seeing you on the screen 👍
So difficult to resist the urge for a nap, after an early shift with a 3am start. If you give in, the nap can last for hours... then you are wide awake for the night ahead 😂Resist Calum.... resist!
What a great honour it was for me to be alongside
@BBCLauraMiller
on the late Reporting Scotland bulletin tonight, on what was the launch day for the new studio. I really love the layout, and can't wait to interact more with the weather graphics over the coming weeks and months!
Happy 70th birthday to BBC Weather! As a wee boy and an avid weather geek, I would hardly miss a BBC weather forecast, and each one would inform, educate and help inspire me to become the Meteorologist I am today. Thanks to everyone connected with the team; both past and present!
Welcome to the last day of the meteorological summer, and a sunny and mostly cloud-free Scotland (for one day only) as seen on the windy satellite display 😎☀️See all good things come to those who wait... and wait..... and wait... and wait again 😂
#summer2024
#3monthwaitisover
Happy Easter to you all, and the weather is also playing ball ⛅️ Off out to top up my Vitamin D amounts in the glorious sunshine. Could hit the dizzy heights of 15C in the west this afternoon - the eggs will be melting haha
Happy World Meteorological Day folks 🌧️🌈⛈️☔️🌦️🌨️❄️⛅️⚡️☁️🌪️🌬️ And rather appropriately for Scotland, on this World Met Day, it is raining outside as I write this 😂🌧️☔️🌦️
On a dose of antibiotics (again) to try and help my sore and red eye, and not surprisingly feel rotten as the drug totally wipes out the gut bacteria; which are actually the powerhouse of all health :(
Latest visible satellite image, as displayed on the windy website, highlighting the mature and majestic deep low to the west, bringing increasingly windy conditions with its spiraling rain bands around its centre, moving in from the southwest through the day. Best today in NE.
First time of this autumn season that I have had to go into my wallet and pick the ice scraping card of choice for the morning 😆 Today, it was the Go Outdoors membership card and it worked a treat - highly recommend it, if you're like me and can't find last year's ice scraper😂
It's always lovely to work with
@SarahMcMullanTV
who keeps me smiling on our early shifts, despite the sleep deprivation! Today was our first weekend shift together! We were getting the festive vibes going in the studio and I even had my walking in the air 'The Snowman' moment😂
A very rare RED 'Danger to Life' Met Office warning for strong wind has just been issued for northeastern mainland Scotland for the early hours of the morning, with potential for a core of very destructive 90-100mph wind gusts to develop off the tip of the cloud head of Isha!
My last forecast of 2023. Wishing you all the very best for 2024! Respite on the weather front, following severe storm Gerrit, with a weather window for travel tomorrow. Then another low arrives during Saturday - further disruption with heavy rain, snow and SE gales moving north.
Here is the latest forecast, with Calum. Still unsettled and windy this afternoon, but the severe weather of yesterday has passed, helping with the recovery operations. Limited brightness, with heavy showers moving inland, and merging at times into longer spells of rain.
Very sad to hear of Nick's passing. He was a lovely, kind and immensely talented individual. This is such a beautiful, yet at the same time, deeply moving tribute to a wonderful man, from his team, colleagues and friends that loved him so much. He will be sorely missed.
First Federer, then Murray, and now Nadal 😢Only Novak is left of the big four! The greatest era of men's tennis comes to an end. What these lads served up over the years was quite simply ace!
#thebest
🎾
Rafael Nadal has confirmed he will retire at the end of the season 🗣
He's spoken about the "difficult decision" to bring the curtain down on a glittering career ✨
#BBCTennis
Looking out from the weather office this fine autumn morning, with more stable layers over the land, producing hints of lenticular clouds, whilst the distant maritime convection and associated cumulonimbus clouds run down the west coast whilst being illuminated by the rising sun.
What a great tennis match this is between Djokovic and Fearnley! I should really be getting an afternoon nap, after my early shifts, but this match is just too good! Could Jacob be about to fill the void, for all us Andy Murray supporters going forward?! I hope so!
Here is Calum with the latest forecast. Very wintry conditions ahead, with the potential for very disruptive and heavy snowfall tomorrow as an area of low pressure moves in across western, southern and central Scotland, with heavy snow showers continuing in the north.
Very unsettled through the coming week with weather more akin to October than August. Western Scotland will bear the brunt of the wind and rain, with big waves for the west coast at times. Met Office yellow warnings for heavy rain have been issued. Here is Calum with the details.
With the temperature around freezing on our highest mountain summits, these clusters of showers moving south in the Highlands and Grampian, are falling as snow as they pass over the tops. Remarkably that makes it the 6th day in a row where snow has fallen on our highest tops!
He played, and won, in the greatest era of men's tennis there has ever been. The ultimate warrior on court, with the heart of a lion, and one of the greatest athletes this country has ever produced! Thank you for the memories Andy. You will always be number one in my eyes!
Still a growing trend for another prolonged spell of rainfall to affect very sensitive parts of the east and north-east later this week, with totals mounting up again. I would expect a Met Office warning to be issued in the next day or so!
Best in the west and northwest for sunshine amounts over the coming days ⛅️ whilst it will continue to be cloudier with occasional dampness in the east where it will be chilly. Especially as the east winds strengthen Friday and into weekend spreading cloud more widely westwards.
Here is Calum, with the latest forecast. High pressure to our NE continues to keep low pressure out in the Atlantic with a resultant southeast airflow which will back easterly and strengthen from Friday. Best in the W/NW for sun, cloudier & chilly in the E with dampness at times.
Love this reaction! So good to see Andy Murray back to winning ways - and he has done it in style today! Ever since his Wimbledon debut in 2005, I have been one of his biggest fans, and wish his every further success through the rest of 2024!
Wet and windy washout Wednesday, although we have had a pronounced rain shadow effect in the east and northeast where Moray hit 18C! We now await the arrival of the remnants of Ernesto tonight, with an enhancement of the wind and rain!
#Ernesto
Wet and windy weather this afternoon with western Scotland bearing the brunt of the autumnal conditions, where a Met Office yellow warning for heavy rain is in force. Much less rain in the east and northeast, thanks to a marked rain shadow effect. Here is Calum, with the latest.
Beautiful sunny day with even the east coasters joining in with the sunny theme, after yesterday's haar, but a gusty east wind. A marked west-east split in temperature though, with west best for the warmth. Hot spots will be parts of Argyll, Lochaber and Wester Ross 21 to 23C.
With a freezing level of around 1300-1400m on Thursday, frequent precipitation will be falling as snow over the top of Ben Nevis, with the westerly upland gales giving a wind chill factor of -10C! July continuing this cold summer theme, that June provided us with🥶
Some folk have been contacting the BBC to say there is a hurricane on the way for Scotland today. Well don't worry, there isn't and this isn't my 1987 moment! Just some faulty data being ingested into our BBC weather app at the moment, and this will hopefully be corrected ASAP!
Don't worry folks, there isn't a hurricane on the way today for Scotland, and Edinburgh isn't going to see wind gusts of an impossible magnitude of 17246mph! There is a major error in the data being ingested into the app, and this is being looked at and hopefully correctly ASAP!
Good morning. Here is the latest on the weather front, with Calum. A colder day with gusty south-west winds, bringing cloudy periods, sunny spells and blustery heavy showers. Some hail and local thunder, and snow for the high ground. Fewest showers in the south and east.
Snow showers this morning have been tracking over the Cairngorm Plateau, making that now an exceptional run of 8 consecutive days where snow has fallen, at some point each day, on our highest tops. This snowy scene is from the live feed camera stream at the ptarmigan restaurant🌨️
A beautiful image from the live feed from the Nevis Range ski centre as the dusk draws ever closer. The well mixed and brighter polar maritime air mass in place with a snow shower clearing through the Nevis Range, with great views out to Loch Eil and beyond.
My suit colours depicting the weather story today. Grey start, away from the sunny west, with some dampness and mist. Brighter skies will edge east through the day, bringing occasional sun to the east and the odd shower, west will be best for the extensive sun.
The latest on the weather front, with Calum. A grey for some misty start, with showers in the northeast, but lovely sunshine in the west and Isles. Sunnier skies extending east through the day, but lingering areas of cloud in the east may bring an afternoon shower. Highs of 22C.
Lots of beautiful, sunny pictures coming in to us this morning from our
@BBCWthrWatchers
that have been out and about early doors observing the weather. Many thanks, as always, for sending them in to us. Here are a few more...
A bitter and raw day out there! Look at this observation from Inverbervie on the east coast 🥶 Driving cold rain with a temperature of 2C, coupled with gale force easterly wind gusts up to 54mph, with a severe wind chill factor making it feel closer to -10C 🥶🥶🥶
Airmass satellite imagery from wetterzentrale, shows forward mass of cloud, ahead of Ernesto, associated with a conveyor of humid, moisture laden air (known as an atmospheric river) which amalgamates with frontal zone connected to low SW of Iceland; next destination... Scotland🌧️
Very deep and potent winter time convection (500hPa temps sub -40C) moving in across northern Scotland, through the rest of today and overnight, as can be seen on the latest satellite imagery from windy. Intense snow rates as they move in, and even the risk of thundersnow! 🌨️
After sunshine Saturday, it is back to the shades of grey this morning, to reflect the overcast, murky and wet weather that takes us into a new week... again... as this rinse and repeat cycle of weather continues!
#rainraingoawaycomeagainanotherday
Unsettled, wet and humid with extensive mist and murk and outbreaks of rain and drizzle advancing north, merging into spells of widespread wet weather. Risk of thundery downpours, with a Met Office yellow warning central, eastern parts and Orkney. Here is Calum, with the latest.
Andy Murray - what a career. Played, won, and got to number one, during the greatest era of men's tennis ever! What joy, tears and nervous breakdowns you have brought to us over the years. You'll always be my number one!🥇🥇🏆🏆🏆1⃣🎾🏴
Some nasty colds doing the rounds (the time of year for it) and I am just now finally seeing an improvement in my cough, since getting it just after Christmas. The worst part was definitely the coughing at night, which led to poor sleep!
Chilly for June!!! Trough of low pressure digs south through Tuesday, with unstable northwesterly winds then taking hold, and forgetting to stop through the week. Whilst there will be sunny spells, there will also be heavy downpours with even snow on the mountains!
Bright and breezy weather spreading south tomorrow, after a cloudy damp start for some. Then a marked change through next week! Chilly and showery north-westerly winds with heavy showers and at times longer spells of rain, but also sunny spells too. Here is Calum with the latest.
Another deep mid latitude cyclone dominates the North Atlantic, named
#StormJocelyn
. Will continue to track east and make landfall tomorrow bringing heavy rain, and increasingly stormy weather as day progresses, peak strength again evening/overnight with further damaging gusts.
Good morning folks, on what is going to be an unseasonably windy and cold day with the weather more in keeping with October rather than July! Clusters of heavy, squally showers, interspersed by sunny spells; these best in the east. Cold enough for snow over our highest mountains!
Sunshine making a late appearance in the far west as seen on the North Uist webcam, with the cold frontal cloud layers gradually thinning in the wake of the front. Will be lovely sunset colours here as the setting sun illuminates the departing cloud layers.
Sad to see Nadal and Alcaraz out of the doubles tournament at the Olympics :( Really hope to see them play again together in the doubles at the next Olympics as they really have the makings of a powerhouse doubles team. Please don't retire Rafa
#Nadalcaraz
Like the start of June, and for a day at the start of July, the snows return to the Scottish mountains this coming week, as we see a plunge of Arctic air, bring an unseasonably cold spell for early September with wind, sun, rain, hail and a thunder risk too🗻
Whilst some of us had a blast of summer heat over the last few days, away from the chilly North Sea haar, next week will bring a taste of winter to us all as strong, Arctic north-westerly winds dig down from Tuesday! Here is Calum, with a look into next week for us. Night folks.
#StormIngunn
is certainly a very potent windstorm with a really sharp cloud head wrapped around its centre, with embedded banded structures, indicating the presence of a sting jet (a core of extreme winds that descend off the cloud head's tip) Extreme weather heading into Norway!
#StormIngunn
, named by the Norwegian Met, has been undergoing explosive cyclogenesis since yesterday as it tracked to the left of the jet with the cloud head structure now in place as it continues to deepen and head toward Norway where red warnings are in force for extreme winds.
Looking up to Aonach Mor, and its fresh snowfall, that arrived earlier today. Snow will be a frequent visitor to the munros (mountains above 3000ft) over the coming week, with a cold and unstable northwesterly airflow dominating through the week bringing frequent, heavy showers.
Not long to go now until the opening match of Euro 2024 with Germany vs Scotland and as the excitement builds, so will the temperature as we head into Friday! Here is Calum with the latest forecast for Munich as we head towards the big day!
Life above and below the temperature inversion. Sunshine and temperatures in the mid-teens, above a sea of North Sea stratus. Currently 15C and sunny on top of Cairnwell, whilst it is grey, murky and chilly from mid slopes down into the glens.
Batten down the ballot boxes tomorrow and make sure you take some robust umbrellas as you head to the polling station, and a few extra layers too! 🌧️🌦️🌂🌬️🥶
The classic Arctic Maritime setup, with plenty convection over the sea, running showers into the north of Scotland and down western coastal areas through the Irish Sea. Whilst areas with long land track in the northwesterly are clear and sunny. My favourite cold season setup :)
Very much looking forward to watching my weather pals on the BBC Scotland channel tonight. They have put a lot of work into this over the last few weeks and months. Tune in from 8pm on the BBC Scotland Channel 🌥️🌧️🌨️🌦️
Our weather team has been out and about all over Scotland over the past few weeks for a new programme
#scotlandsweather
Scotland’s Weather: Our Changing Seasons. On the BBC Scotland Channel at 8pm on Thursday 16th November
We are saying goodbye to the humidity, and hello to the fresher Atlantic air in the wake of the cold front which will bring very wet weather eastwards through the rest of today with the clearer, fresher conditions moving in from the west. A wee look ahead at next week.
Good to be back on the weather front this morning, on what is the first day of the meteorological winter - although it has felt like that arrived a week early this year 🥶❄️
Today marks the start of meteorological winter, although it has felt like that arrived this time last week, given this ongoing cold spell. Staying very cold over the coming days with wintry showers for some. Here is Calum with the forecast.
As forecasters, we always look at upper level patterns to predict the evolution of weather at surface. And today, we are undergoing a trough disruption, where a trough of low pressure gets stretched south and then cuts off. This process still gives weather models major headaches!
Very wet and very windy tomorrow. Widespread S/SW gales - severe gales or storm force winds in north and northwest. An active cold front and its heavy rain will move southeast with a potential squall line before it clears, colder air follows with blustery showers, wintry in N/NW.
Baroclinic leaf cloud signature southwest of Iceland, associated with Storm Ingunn (named by Norwegian Met) is now entering left exit region of jet and therefore starting its rapid cyclogenesis phase as it tracks to the north of Scotland then to Norway ~ 40-50mb drop in 24 hours!