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Europe August 2022 Outlook (Summer so far)

Written by on July 31, 2022 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Europe August 2022 Outlook (Summer so far)

We’re well beyond the half way point of meteorological summer 2022 and on the eve of August. So far, it’s been a mixed summer with spells of ‘extreme heat’ mixed with cool, showery episodes and pressure from the Atlantic trying to press east. Driest, warmest, sunniest the further south and east, cooler, wetter the further […]

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UK Record’s Hottest Night, To Be Followed by 1st 40C?

Written by on July 19, 2022 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
UK Record’s Hottest Night, To Be Followed by 1st 40C?

Thanks to a long term La Nina induced dry pattern, abnormally warm Atlantic, North Sea and Med and exceptionally hot air in place over Iberia, the heat is one… Thanks to high pressure sliding east and low pressure lifting north from Iberia towards UK, an area of nearly off-the-scale warmth has tracked northward over the […]

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UK’s Hottest Days Since 1900

Written by on July 8, 2022 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
UK’s Hottest Days Since 1900

Information credit: Trevor Harley Top 4 UK Hottest Days 38.7C Cambridge Botanic Garden July 2019 38.5C Faversham, Kent August 2003 37.1C Cheltenham August 1990 36.7C Raunds August 1911 Site of the new UK record at Cambridge Botanic Gardens UK’s hottest day since 1900 1900 35.1 Cambridge 20 July 1901 33.3 Bawtry (South Yorks.), Colly Weston […]

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