Spring 2016
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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