Spring 2016

Cool, Rainy Start To French Open, Improvement For Chelsea Flower Show

Cool, Rainy Start To French Open, Improvement For Chelsea Flower Show

A ‘cool high’ over the UK is providing an AM sunshine/PM thunderstorm regime thanks to strong surface heating and strong upward motion due to a cool mid and upper level air. After the cool of clear, calm nights with patchy rural frost, strong sunshine is providing strong lift and towering cumulonimbus formation quite widely. Not only are they producing downpours, hail […]

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El Nino Rapidly Fading But It’s Affects Aren’t, All 3 US Heat Source Regions Cut Off!

Written by on May 21, 2016 in Spring 2016, United States of America with 0 Comments
El Nino Rapidly Fading But It’s Affects Aren’t, All 3 US Heat Source Regions Cut Off!

There’s been a significant lack of heat across the Lower 48 this month thanks to the continuation of stormy weather and wet ground. We may well be seeing one of the fastest ENSO turnarounds taking place right now with a boiling equatorial Pacific back during the winter to a La Nina as early as next month […]

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Climb To The Top Of 3053ft Ben Chonzie (Perthshire)

Climb To The Top Of 3053ft Ben Chonzie (Perthshire)

My friend and climbing partner Petr Kolegar took to the road Wed 18 May for a short trip to Perthshire where we enjoyed the easy ascent up Ben Chonzie. Located roughly 10 miles NW of Comrie, Perthshire. Weather conditions we’re reasonable with mostly overcast sky with some breaks as well as off and on light rain. No wind […]

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AccuWeather & Met Office Hurricane Season Forecasts 2016

AccuWeather & Met Office Hurricane Season Forecasts 2016

AccuWeather 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast AccuWeather Forecast: Named Storms: 14 Hurricanes: 8 Major Hurricanes: 4 U.S. Named Storm Landfalls: 3 The potential movement of a ‘cold blob’ of water in the North Atlantic Ocean may be the wild card in the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, experts say. The cold blob refers to a large, […]

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EUROPE: Remaining Changeable Into Early June With No Heatwave On Horizon!

EUROPE: Remaining Changeable Into Early June With No Heatwave On Horizon!

As forecasted way back last weekend, conditions were to go downhill over the UK but head up across Portugal and Spain, looks like we may flip the other way again early next week as low pressure returns to Iberia while high pressure returns to the UK. However! This high is far from strong, sunny and warm like last […]

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Flooding Continues To Plague Texas While Florida’s Wet Season Gets Off To Record Start!

Written by on May 19, 2016 in Spring 2016, United States of America with 0 Comments
Flooding Continues To Plague Texas While Florida’s Wet Season Gets Off To Record Start!

Flooding continues to plague Texas with further issues in and around Houston yesterday and today. However a lot of attention was drawn to Florida yesterday with up to a foot of rain falling in the Vero Beach area. Heavy downpours continue to affect a large corridor from SE Texas to Florida. Water rescues being carried out in Texas once again today as the […]

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Atlantic Low To Give Way To Continental High Again But When Exactly?

Atlantic Low To Give Way To Continental High Again But When Exactly?

Wet today, Sat, Sun and Mon across many parts of the UK as Atlantic low pressure rules Latest GFS surface through the rest of this week and into early next week. GFS indicates the Icelandic low collapses but shifts to a position WNW of Portugal (similar to last week) and with a strengthening Iceland-Scandinavia blocking high, Atlantic fronts are likely […]

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UK: CFSv2 Indicates Warmer But Wetter In Week 2

UK: CFSv2 Indicates Warmer But Wetter In Week 2

I’m taking to the hills this morning so no real written post but thought I’d throw up the CFSv2 weeklies for you. Cool next 5 days but notice it warms the UK week 2 but also turns wetter. Then drier week 3 Prepare for a pretty poor weekend! Quite week up here across Scotland tomorrow, […]

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Record 80s In Alaska, Snow & 40s In Ohio Valley/New England While Texas Continues To Flood!

Written by on May 17, 2016 in Spring 2016, United States of America with 0 Comments
Record 80s In Alaska, Snow & 40s In Ohio Valley/New England While Texas Continues To Flood!

If your up in Alaska, it’s been looking and feeling more like July with record breaking 80s as far north as Fairbanks but if down in the Midwest and Northeast, it’s more like March with record snow and cold, while down in Texas, it’s flooding rain your dealing with! Here’s the highly anomalous upper air pattern responsible for the extremes. Sub-Arctic Alaska Much […]

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Icelandic Trough Returns And So Does Wind & Rain To UK, Heat & Sun To Iberia

Icelandic Trough Returns And So Does Wind & Rain To UK, Heat & Sun To Iberia

As highlighted in recent days, if you don’t like cool, cloudy, wet and windy, Southern and Eastern Spain is your best bet this weekend and through next week with the warmest weather of the year on the way. The last 10 days has seen a settled UK, unsettled Spain thanks to the weak Azores but strong […]

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