Archive for September, 2020
Like August and much of the summer, September has been a month of mixed fortune with settled spells interrupted by more unsettled. May and September are often thought of as being the ‘best month’s of the year’ but this didn’t really apply in 2020. Despite the UK see it’s first September 30C in 3 years […]
Low pressure developed over England along a notable southbound cold front and deepened into quite the cyclone over the North Sea and just offshore of East Anglia. This feature, visible on the below visible satellite images brought a wild past 24 hours for East Anglia and Southeast. It brought a triple whammy with within a 24 hour […]
The hyper active tropics is not only allowing amplification of the mid latitude pattern but driving highs into unfamiliar territory! The high latitudes! Hurricane Teddy looks to break away from the pack and run a due north course up into eastern Canada. This force high pressure north creating a downstream buckling and allowing the first […]
This past week, NASA revealed that solar cycle 25 has officially begun and that cycle 24 ended back in December 2019 when it reached a minimum. Solar cycle 24 reached it’s maximum back in April 2014. Solar cycle 23 ended and cycle 24 commenced back in late 2008 with Britain’s coldest winter since 1978-79 occurring […]
We have quite the interesting weather pattern this weekend thanks to low pressure to the north and high pressure to the south and a strong zonal jet stream roaring in between. Here was this afternoon’s visible satellite imagery below showing cloudless skies over southern Britain while gale-force winds and persistent rain affected Scotland, even Northern […]
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