Archive for 2018
We knew it was going to be an unusually warm day and it was just that. On the western fringes of the Cairngorm Mountains, the town of Aviemore started off Wednesday at a comfortable 9.3C at 3am. By 9am, the thermometer shot up to 23.6C and by 12 noon 28.7C. Between 1 and 2pm the […]
In the midst and in the wake of an unseasonably stormy spell between June 18-21 the tops of the Nevis Range, Glen Coe, Cairngorms among other ranges received fresh snow on the longest day of the year. Ben Nevis found itself in near whiteout conditions along with a decent covering of fresh snow on June […]
There’s nothing unusual about thunderstorms and the heavy, sometimes flooding rains that they deliver. However, the thunderstorms which sweep the area stretching between Richmond and Fredericksburg, VA between Thursday and Saturday was anything but typical. The intensity of the rain was about as extreme as it gets for any part of the US late last […]
Dry ground, low humidity air, intense upper level high pressure, powerful late June sun and longest hours of daylight all combine to maximize daytime heating potential. The stage is set for potentially Scotland’s warmest June day in 23 years. Last June saw the UK’s warmest June day since 1976. As the high builds over the […]
We have seen probably one of the most dramatic spring temperature flips in a lifetime across the US. From one of the coldest April’s and coldest nationwide since 1997 to warmest May on record and June so far is one of the warmest also. May June so far No major increase in drought area or […]
With the exceptions of a wet start to May and middle June, it’s been a predominantly dry, settled and warm pattern across northwest and north Europe thanks to blocking high pressure while low pressure has kept things unseasonably cool and unsettled over southwest Europe. This is seen nicely in the May and June temperature anomaly […]
Article from wunderground.com Bob Henson · June 19, 2018, 12:22 PM EDT Flash flood watches were strewn from northern Montana to the Texas Gulf Coast on Tuesday, the result of unusually rich moisture stranded across the United States beneath lackadaisical upper-level winds. It’s a classic summer setup for generating the kind of slow-moving showers and […]
The end game to winter and the overall spring pattern has certainly played well with my thinking. May was a dry month for particularly the northern two thirds of the British Isles. The dry May led to the UK’s warmest and sunniest May on record. https://twitter.com/liamdutton/status/1002558079064473600 June is dry too for northern and eastern Scotland, […]
Well I’m sure many if not most thought the 2-3 weeks of dry pleasant weather we enjoyed in May and much of the first half of June was our summer as the Atlantic returned with unseasonably wet and windy conditions. I have to admit, while next week’s potential ‘hot spell’ is well within the parameters […]
3 weeks of unusually settled weather came to an abrupt this week thanks to the arrival of an unusual summer wind storm. Thanks to an increase in temperature gradient over North America, our sleepy trans Atlantic jet stream awoke and spawned an unusually deep Atlantic low and may have reached it’s peak as it passed […]
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