Archive for September, 2013
The pattern is slowly changing over Europe as the upper low which brought Scandinavia it’s first taste of winter exits allowing the UK ridge to finally start shifting northeast, centring itself over Scandinavia. By doing so, it allows the sprawling and rather strong low SW of the UK to lift northeast replacing high pressure with low pressure and […]
Scotland It’s a fine, dry and pleasant start to the week and end to September with temperatures slightly above average at 17-19, locally 20C in the Northwest Highlands. Considerably cooler along the east coast with a strong SE wind keeping temperatures close to 12 or 13C. Windy for most. Tonight is dry, mild and windy but […]
The first major storm of autumn is well underway across British Columbia, Washington and Oregon and has been bringing problems throughout the region with power outages being reported by the tens of thousands from parts of Vancouver and Victoria all the way down to Portland, OR with winds in excess of 60 mph and 24 hour rains in excess […]
We remain in a rather amplified or ‘blocky’ pattern right now across Europe with two main drivers controlling the movement of air around the continent. Through the second half of this past week, TWO upper lows have played a key role with one to the SW of the UK and the other slowly drifting east across Scandinavia. […]
As advertised here throughout this week, we saw a large temperature spread between the Northern Rockies and Lower Midwest with temperatures struggling to get much above the mid-30s while Missouri, Iowa up into Minnesota soared well into the 80s. One example I found was a 36 degree high at Yellowstone Lake, WY while it topped […]
The cold is well and truly in place across Scandinavia but while it eases in coming days across the North of the continent as ridging builds in, setting up a classic ‘Scandi block’, even colder air looks set to get drafted in from Asia into western Russia and perhaps into the Ukraine and SE Europe […]
Scotland After a fairly dull, cloudy but mainly dry afternoon for most, skies will tend to clear like last night, making way for a cool night beneath the stars. Overnight lows dip to between 3-6C in rural areas to nearer 8-10C in the major towns and cities. Look out for dense fog patches in parts of […]
Over the next 5-7 days the US pattern overall settles as the jet stream intensifies and roars nearly due west to east across the country. That’s a mild orientation of course with Pacific air crossing the country and locking any cold up in Canada. However these patterns tend to come at a price for the […]
There is a large temperature spread across Europe these days with a highly amplified pattern bringing unusual late season warmth to Iberia with highs reaching the low 30s across northern parts of Spain but in stark contrast we’re seeing the first snows fall across Scandinavia as well as in cities such as Helsinki, Riga, Tallinn […]
Scotland It’s been a largely fine and dry day across much of Scotland but thicker cloud has lingered from Dumfries up into Glasgow and through tonight, while sunshine gives way to starry skies, light and patchy rain will fall through the night across the Southwest up the western flank of the country, always drier, clearer […]
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