>8 April, 2011

Written by Mark Vogan on April 8, 2011 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments

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It’s western Scotland’s turn for 21C (70F) or warmer tomorrow! See Today’s Weather across UK, Europe for the details.

Glorious sunny weekend for Britain with mercury to hit 21C… but mini-heatwave sparks drought fears

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TODAY’S WEATHER ACROSS UK & EUROPE
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Saturday: It’s Western Scotland’s turn for warmest temps of 2011 so far, cooling continues across eastern Europe

Mark Vogan discusses a warmer day for western Scotland and the warmer-than-normal pattern Western Europe is enjoying.

Glasgow and throughout Strathclyde may reach 21 or even 22C Saturday afternoon, while cooling sea-breezes keep east and north coast chilly, perhaps highs only reaching 11-12C!

As the high pressure area shifts slightly northwards over the UK through the rest of today and tomorrow, the core of the warmth across the UK also will shift north too. Whilst more in the way of cloudcover gets introduced to southern areas of Wales and England and temperatures trimmed back from today’s 20 to 22C highs, tomorrow may only top 20C, still warm and well above average but less warm compared with the past few days.

BBC Scotland’s Forecast for tomorrow

It’s as you progress north where skies will be much sunnier and with high pressure actually pulling north into Scotland, we are aiming for temperatures to warm into the low 20s C, that’s into the low 70s F for inland areas stretching from Dumfries (high around 20C) to Glasgow (high around 21C with some spots 22C) all the way northwards through Crainlarich (21C) to Oban (high around 22C) with even Altnaharra in the interior northwest reaching near 21C. Areas between Glasgow and Edinburgh such as Stirling, north to Aviemore in the central Highlands may reach 21-23C if winds remain light and skies very sunny.

TODAY’S WEATHER ACROSS AMERICA
By Mark Vogan

106 degrees in laredo, tx verses 50s in phoenix & vegas?
It’s becoming hot across the South but very chilly air flowing all the way to the desert southwest behind the current storm system over the Great Basin sets up the next major severe weather situation across the US this weekend.

The latest storm system now on the weather map across the US is making for a massive thermal contrast between the West, Central and Eastern regions. The storm circulation is forcing 90s and 100s to it’s east over Texas and Oklahoma today but at the same time is forcing 30s and 40s in on it’s backside over the West. Heavy mountains snow and low elevation rains will pepper California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado today.

Once the cold front gets east of the Rockies tomorrow and Sunday, this will be when things start to happen as thunderstorms will blossom along the front as it enters the prime area which stretches from the eastern Plains, into the Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio valleys where

-damaging winds
-large hail
-torrential flooding rains
-dangerous lightning

and of course tornadoes is possible!

Tomorrow (Saturday), highs will only reach the upper 50s in both Las Vegas and Phoenix, that’s amazingly 15 to 20 degrees below normal. Stark contrast to early March where Vegas hit the 90s and Phoenix topped 100, it’s second earliest on record. MORE TO COME TOMORROW!

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UK to take a dive on the temperature rollercoaster come Monday

While we all enjoy sunny warm weather with our turn here in west-central Scotland tomorrow, a trough and cool pool will return to our atmosphere by Monday as a front moves in from the Atlantic presenting us with more unsettled weather and highs down nearer to normal which btw is around 11 or 12C for Scotland and around 13 to 14C further south. Yes for ‘early’ April, 21 to 23C is pretty abnormal and as is always the case, this can’t last, especially not at this early stage in the year or here in the UK. High’s are still growing stronger and progressing north, so this is quite unusual to see this amount of warmth this early. It’s likely because of drought conditions which often responds to the atmosphere above, strengthening high’s and thus producing warmer surface temperatures.

Large Temperature spread across US shows well when looking at departures from normal!