The heat continues to blister Northwest Russia and Scandinavia as a powerful upper ridge transports Middle East heat all the way to the sub-arctic. Highs climbed to a record 32.5C or 91F in St Petersburg while Moscow topped a second straight 29C or 85F yesterday. Back on Monday, Archangel on Russia’s White Sea Coast topped 31C or 88F which set a new May heat record. The average high up here in barely into the low teens never mind low 30s.

Moscow still has a shot at tying their all-time May record of 31C in the next couple of afternoons.

Check out the GFS temperature and more impressively the anomalies for today and through the second half of this week. We’re talking 22-24C ABOVE NORMAL. Impressive to say the least!

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As you can see the heat drifts west across Poland, Germany and Scandinavia in the coming days while the intensity eases over Russia.

GFS 7-day mean 500mb height anomalies should the westward shift in ridge and weakening as it does so.

UK Flooding Rain Threat Next 24 Hours!

Meanwhile, we here in the UK await the arrival of some very wet weather tonight into tomorrow.

Heavy rain/thunderstorm pulses appear to be clustering over France as of this writing and all this intense rainfall is heading UK-bound and should be spreading into Southern England early this evening. The energetic pulses ridi9ng a warm, southerly flow should push into Northern England overnight and could pose a flood threat along with dramatic lightning displays etc.

Check out the latest visible satellite and lightning strike chart over France… Via Meteo Europe.

GFS surface chart

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CFSv2 remains warm, dry for June….

See video for more!

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