Archive for April, 2013
It may feel like winter is never-ending but today, we can look forward to the warmer weather with my UK & Ireland Summer Forecast 2013. It seems like a very long time since we enjoyed a decent summer here in the British Isles and Ireland. Recent summers have been very much dominated by excessive rainfall […]
It’s going to be a messy week of transition as cold doesn’t want to let go. While Atlantic lows track across the southern half of Britain, swinging a shield of precip north, colder air will filter down from the north setting up a battle this week. It will stay chilly in the North while milder air tries to push up […]
The US weather map is about to go wild early and mid week with a textbook spring storm setting up. A very impressure thermal gradient will set over over the Plains as the system matures over Texas, supporting temps 20-40 below normal over the Rockies/western high plains while it may get to nearly 30 above normal over the interior Mid-Atlantic with 80s as far north as Philadelphia, […]
There is lots of uncertainy showing up in the models and the battle is likely to only worsen through the upcoming week as the extreme blocking pattern reverses right at a time when the atmosphere is transitioning. I want to show you the big flip in the models between yesterday and today with next weekend and also want to show you […]
For about two weeks now I have been saying that once we enter April’s second week, the cold pattern should begin to breakdown and that will happen during next week but it’s once the indexes return to neutral and more so, positive, then we must be watching the models to see whether they hint at ridging and finally the arrival to warmer weather. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] […]
Although there’s snow falling across the Northern Plains at the moment, the weather map is relatively quiet at the moment across the US but that changes in a big way early next week as a major spring storm develops from an upper disturbance which swings into California from the Gulf of Alaska. All the key […]
Milder air will arrive as early as THIS weekend as winds fall much lighter than of late and with plenty of strong sunshine, temperatures should rise to between 8-11C. Although it’s still a little below average it’s an improvement at least. As for next week, we will gradually emerge from the fridge as high pressure sinks […]
Scotland The rest of today and right through the weekend looks largely fine, dry and settled with the exceptions of the far north where there’s a weak boundary bringing rain, sleet, snow and hail to the Northern Isles and far northern mainland. Tonight will be mainly dry with clear spells, lows of 1-2C where cloud prevails, […]
Thought it would be a good time to look at the global SST’s and tie in some interesting anomalies which have appeared during the cold second half to winter across the Northern Hemisphere and also look at the deep tropics and potentials with the upcoming Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season. Firstly, here’s the current global SST’s as […]
Although we have more cold nights to come through the rest of this week into the weekend and perhaps even extending into early next week, the emphesis now turns to next week’s return to a much more typical Atlantic driven pattern for the UK and Ireland with rain bearing, much milder southwest winds as we loose the persistent block to our […]
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