Spring 2016

High To Hold Over UK Into Next Week, First 40C+ For Spain, 30C+ Paris, London Late Next Week?

High To Hold Over UK Into Next Week, First 40C+ For Spain, 30C+ Paris, London Late Next Week?

A strong west-east high pressure zone centred north of Scotland is reversing our upper flow pattern bringing weather in from the ESE. The messy weather seen over the continent during the past weekend is now making it’s presence felt across England today and certainly made it’s presence felt in Paris yesterday before reaching London today. Further north […]

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TEXAS: From Extreme Drought To Severe Flood, Extremes Are A Way Of Life In The Lone Star State

TEXAS: From Extreme Drought To Severe Flood, Extremes Are A Way Of Life In The Lone Star State

If unfamiliar with Texas but you’ve been following the weather and climate in recent years, you could be forgiven for thinking that the climate of Texas was changing. Becoming more like Florida or even the Amazon after looking and feeling more like Arizona between 2010 and 2013. However, if you delve deeper or understand climate and the past, the turbulent and typically extreme climate of the […]

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A LOOK BACK: The Extremes Of Summer 2015

A LOOK BACK: The Extremes Of Summer 2015

For most of the UK and Ireland, summer 2015 will be remembered as cold and wet and for those across much of Europe, hot and dry. Much of the driving force behind the major summer heat and wild swings is largely down to the strengthening El Nino. Many previous hot European summers have occurred around […]

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South Carolina Tropical Hit This Weekend, Texas Up Next A Little After Next Weekend?

South Carolina Tropical Hit This Weekend, Texas Up Next A Little After Next Weekend?

As promised, this Memorial Day weekend has brought the first widespread and record 90s throughout the Eastern US just as folks enjoy the ‘unofficial start to summer’. We also saw not the first but second named tropical storm of the season which made landfall in South Carolina yesterday. When was the first? Remember that rare […]

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Powerful Thunderstorm Complex Spans A Continent With Lightning Striking Dozens!

Powerful Thunderstorm Complex Spans A Continent With Lightning Striking Dozens!

For the majority of Ireland and the UK it’s been a fine, dry and pleasant bank holiday weekend but as for mainland Europe, lightning has filled the skies causing dozens to be struck from Paris to Warsaw. In Paris 11 people we’re struck by lightning while celebrating a birthday in a park while in Germany several we’re struck […]

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US: Stormy Plains, Tropical Trouble Brewing, Bye Bye El Nino

US: Stormy Plains, Tropical Trouble Brewing, Bye Bye El Nino

Want to cover a few things going on just now but firstly, take a look at this morning’s visible satellite animation. Firstly note the flare up of deep convection over the heart of Texas where further flooding rains and severe weather will affect this region and further north over the mid-Mississippi Valley. Today promises to be another […]

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Cold Late May Day From UK To Germany Yesterday But Looking Good For Bank Holiday Weekend!

Cold Late May Day From UK To Germany Yesterday But Looking Good For Bank Holiday Weekend!

It was a raw day across much of England and Wales as well as the heart of the Cairngorms yesterday beneath the thick cloud and brisk easterly blowing in off the North Sea. Several English coastal communities and southern Pennines failed to get above 8C, 12C in London. Think that was cold, try Cairngorm Summit where the thermometer failed […]

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US: ECMWF Suggests Polar Opposite Between This Weekend & Next

US: ECMWF Suggests Polar Opposite Between This Weekend & Next

As well as the Memorial Day weekend heat in the Midwest, Northeast and tropical threat for the Southeast, we’re also talking a 360 degree flip between the upcoming memorial day weekend and next. By that I mean the Western trough/Eastern ridge goes opposite. Here’s the latest ECMWF. Check out the difference between this Saturday and next […]

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EUROPE NEXT WEEK: High Over Low Supports Settled North, Unsettled South

EUROPE NEXT WEEK: High Over Low Supports Settled North, Unsettled South

It would seem the Atlantic-Europe weather pattern has been fairly slow moving and stuck during the March-late May period with high pressure stacked either over the Atlantic or Iceland and in recent weeks hooking up with Scandinavia, holding lows further south. The next 7 days or so sees little difference as heights once again build strong […]

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Stormy South-Central Europe With Flooding, Hail, Lightning, Tornadoes & Snow

Stormy South-Central Europe With Flooding, Hail, Lightning, Tornadoes & Snow

A big range in temperature and weather over Italy yesterday all courtesy of a potent low spinning over the north of the country. From sub freezing highs and heavy snow in the Alpine communities of the north to summer-like 30s along the southern Adriatic coast and Sicily. In between, flooding rain, hail, gusty wind, lightning and even tornadoes. Monday’s highs across Italy. Lightning strike over […]

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