The heat core continues to slow move away from western into central Europe with the worst of the oven-like conditions taking aim at the eastern Low Countries and particularly Germany where temps approached 40C.

Here was yesterday morning’s lows. While it must have been near record warm over Belgium with minimums widely between 22-24C, it was a much fresher 6-10C over the West Highlands and this set the tone for a cooler afternoon but the heat continued to cling onto SE England where it topped 29C.

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The intense heat over Germany even caused the famous autoban to rupture.

Friday night into Saturday was an impressive night for lightning displays. Within UK airspace, 110,000 lightning flashes were reported.

Check out this absolutely stunning image from Blackpool Friday night. Courtesy of Stephen Cheatley.

Interesting to see how much waters have warmed above normal around Europe in the past week.

This may be significant for the late summer into early autumn pattern.

As heights continue to lower from the west now, so Atlantic weather makes a return to the UK. Through the early part of the upcoming week, a system will spread wind and rain across the country but the combination of low pressure positioned over the North Sea/Norwegian Sea and high pressure build north towards Iceland, we shall find ourselves in a northerly flow Wednesday, Thursday, making for the first ‘chilly feel’ almost UK-wide in a few weeks with highs below average again.

Another system spreads across Northern Ireland and Scotland Friday but with sun and southwest winds for much of England and Wales, it’s back to the low, mid 20s widely,l possibly 28C in and around London again. It’s a very back and fourth setup that’s likely to keep on coming through the rest of the month.

Latest ECMWF surface through next weekend.

Haven’t had this in a few weeks.

Expect below normal highs all the way to central France on Thursday.

It turns warmer late week into next weekend across the South but stays cooler, showery in the North and West!

A wetter pattern for Northwest Europe next 7-10 days

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The 1-8 day GFS meteograms show the cooling trend this upcoming week with coolest being Thursday but warming trend returns by next weekend as winds return to SW direction.

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AMSTERDAM

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In the coming days I shall be taking a look at the longer term, i.e the autumn and even winter so stay tuned!

See video for today’s discussion.

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