>Another Week Of Above Normal Temps Ahead For UK & W. Europe

Written by Mark Vogan on February 26, 2012 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments

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Another Week Of Above Normal Temps Ahead For UK & W. Europe

The stubborn Azores high will continue to keep away any true active weather this upcoming week with glimpses of unsettled weather crossing Scotland. It will be a generally wet and blustery day across Scotland tomorrow but by Tuesday, Scotland joins the rest of the UK in more settled conditions. If your anywhere from the Midlands southwards, you’ll know well how little proper rain you’ve had and as well as that, the sunshine is favouring you. Those heights are too strong across central and southern UK and thus skies have lighter winds, somewhat brighter skies and milder air.
This weekend saw a brief flattening of the high and this allowed more cloud and a slight reduction in temps, however, the south and east still saw plenty of sunshine and temps up to between 10-13C, that’s still above normal while the northern UK, while it’s somewhat cloudier, a good deal wetter and at times, windy, it is still around normal or even abopve normal temperaturewise. It’s the persistency in the high which is keeping any sort of cooler air away and therefore I am beginning to think that this February may end up one of the warmest.

Certainly this upcoming week will help boost the monthly deficite as the high builds back into the UK and temps are likely to widely reach between 12-16C throughout much of the UK, including Scotland. I continue to believe that Wednesday may take a run at the 19.7C February record as the centre of the high shifts to the southeast of London which would help bring in those warming southwesterlies. The surface and upper charts support that and combined with strong heights (by Feb standards), combined with the effect of downslope warming and the much drier than normal soils, this is a real possibility, like anything however, this may change.

The rest of the week remains fairly settled with the high shifting slightly further east. The majority of the western continent looks to have a glorious mid to late week with good, widespread sunshine and mild temps. The clear skies and light winds at night may allow for frosts but certainly, from the UK to east Germany, Wednesday onwards is looking terrific.

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New Severe Weather Threat Coming Up Monday Night

An area of low pushing through the upper Midwest today will bring a swath of heavy snow from eastern Montana to the UP of Michigan while a secondary low behind it will bring much more widespread weather impact across the Lower 48 as we head into the midweek!

A write-up and video will be available shortly, stay tuned!