An unusually deep Atlantic cyclone spinning west, northwest of Ireland is driving the weather across Western Europe with cool, blustery and showery conditions for Glasgow and Belfast, pleasantly warm for London and Paris but intensely hot for Madrid down to Seville.

What you can expect through the rest of this week.

Glasgow

Costa Del Sol

Visible satellite view showing the big Atlantic depression beautifully, driving a lot of heat and humidity northward over W Europe.

500mb anomaly

Pressure chart

The remainder of this workweek looks unsettled and frequently windy for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Northern England with the low nearby shedding fronts but a little further south it’s mainly dry, bright and warm for London and the Southeast extending into France where highs will fluctuate between 24-28C.

Wednesday looks to be the warmest of the week for London and Southeast.

As for Spain, the heat currently sweltering the peninsular doesn’t typically arrive until mid July lasting through mid-August but this year, widespread 35+ with 40+ in southern interior has arrived early.

Spain reached it’s first 40C of the year Sunday with Montero climbing to 40.9C.

Thank an unusually deep Atlantic low west of Ireland which has led to stronger than normal high pressure extending from Africa into Iberia.

As the heat builds further, the AEMET has issued orange heat alerts for 6 provinces as temperatures soar to 35C or higher.

Following a very muggy start, particularly over the interior of Iberia this morning, today is set to be even warmer than yesterday with 43 or 44C possible.

Wake up temperatures…

This afternoon’s forecasted highs.

The rest of this week remains very hot over Iberia, cool and unsettled over Ireland and northern UK.