United Kingdom & Ireland
July 2020 is likely the UK’s coolest since 2012 thanks to the dominance of low pressure and winds blowing in off a cooler-than-normal Atlantic. The temperature rise and fall within a 72 hour period between July 30-August 1 over Southeast England has been quite remarkable. Heathrow Airport in west London has been grabbing all the […]
Tuesday (below) was a notably cool late July day for Scotland and barely average for the rest of the UK in what’s likely to be the UK’s coolest since 2012. Wednesday wasn’t a whole lot better. However, we have potentially our strongest surge of summer heat on the way and not because of a big […]
The month of July has been, as forecast, a very changeable month dominated by lower than normal pressure. That lower than normal pressure has delivered frequent spells of rain and with more cloud than sunshine, sub-par temperatures. In fact, we may well have just went through our coldest July for the UK since 2012 and […]
The far north of Scotland typically sees the UK’s coldest temperatures during the height of summer, often falling to between 0 and 2C. Yesterday morning was no exception where Kinbrace, Sutherland dipped beneath clear, calm skies to a frosty -0.6C. The Kinbrace record low for July in -1.8C according to climate historian Maximiliano Herrera. Yesterday’s […]
June 2020 was largely dominated by low pressure and at the close of the month, a stalled area of low pressure over Scotland brought record rainfall. Position and stalled nature of this low was key to producing a new UK 24-hour June rainfall record. 1. Stalled low 2. Spiraling rain band crossing waters +4C above […]
2020 is following in 2018 and 2019’s footsteps in producing record heat in Scotland. While both Glasgow and Edinburgh set new all-time heat records in 2018 and 2019 respectively, a new June record was set in Prestwick, Ayrshire last Thursday. Forecast models had 28-29C for parts of south and central Scotland but it was the […]
The colder-than-normal waters sitting to the west of the UK and Ireland doesn’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon. In fact the CFSv2 along with other models show it expanding and growing cooler still. Here’s the current SST anomaly for the North Atlantic. The CFSv2 for July has the cool SST anomaly expand and […]
June 2020 has been a changeable month with some spots seeing below normal rainfall, for others, considerably above normal. That’s the nature of thunderstorms and their localized nature. The first half of June was cool over Ireland and UK and downright chilly from Iberia to Italy, largely down to cloudier than normal skies and frequent […]
The summer’s first major hot spell is now building thanks to the expansion of a strong Scandinavian blocking high which shall push out fresh Atlantic air and pull in hot, continental air. This high can be seen strengthening west and south from Scandinavia on the GFS 500mb height anomaly chart below and will act as a […]
Despite the UK seeing it’s driest spring on record, nature is quickly catching up on it’s rainfall deficit. While I expected this flip and hush of drought and summer 2018 repeat talk, this has come quicker than I thought. In just the past 7 days of June alone, many sites have seen more rain than […]
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