Archive for 2023
The difference between June and July 2023 just ending has been like chalk and cheese, polar opposites. High pressure (centred just N of Scotland) in June was replaced by low pressure (draped across Ireland, UK and Scandinavia) in July. From the warmest June on record (as per Met Office) to what looks likely to be […]
Despite the opening week being slightly BELOW average, according to the Met Office June 2023 will go down as the UK’s warmest on record! 🌡June 2023 is provisionally on track to be the hottest June on record for the UK, beating the previous record set in 1940. Find out more, including the influence of climate […]
May 2023 has been somewhat of a strange month. An odd pattern with a distinct tale of two halves precip-wise with wet start and dry end. A slow and gradual warming trend through the final week. Maximum UK temperatures have been mediocre to say the least this month. According to Syran Bruan, with a UK […]
Welcome to my 13th annual UK, Europe summer forecast. As always, when compiling this forecast for the upcoming June-August period there are multiple factors which have been taken into consideration. They include the past winter pattern, type of spring just observed as well as other factors including current ENSO state, global and regional sea surface temperature […]
India and Pakistan observed a cooler, wetter than average April and has begun May extremely cool compared to what is typically approaching the hottest time of year as the monsoon season nears. April temp anomaly as per CDAS data, courtesy of Weatherbell.com. May’s opening week! https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1654091059968847874 Meanwhile, beneath an unusual strong anticyclone, the heat remains […]
For the UK, spring (March) started very cold and moderated as the month progressed and became increasingly wet (wettest since 1981 for England). The month averaged slightly below temperature-wise. April is seeing a mild, dry north, cooler, wetter south and is likely to wind up near to slightly below average temperature-wise and perhaps near average […]
It’s been a wild winter and spring across Asia with extremes for both cold and heat. Thanks to it’s vast size, topography and position within the largest continent on earth linking tropics with arctic, China observed a particularly extreme ride so far in 2023. Firstly, the the far north, saw China’s first -50C since 1969 […]
Overview/Summary For the UK and Ireland, the upcoming Easter weekend sees a battle between Scandinavian high pressure verses Atlantic low pressure. Initially, the high (still intensifying) over Scandinavia will win the fight, preventing Atlantic weather fronts from progressing eastward. There appears to be some good cross-model agreement, that the bulk of the long holiday weekend […]
March has been a tale of two halves with cold first half followed by mild second and drastically different compared to February in the rainfall department. The precipitation anomaly between February and March is the complete opposite, temperature-wise, it looks to fall a fraction BELOW AVERAGE compared to the warm February. February 2023 https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1633777147394560001 March […]
For the UK, winter 2022-23 has been around average with small areas of above normal. For much of the continent, it’s been another mild to warm one. December really stood out for both UK and Europe compared to the rest of 2022 as seen in the graphic below! December 22 anomaly January 23 Feb 23 […]
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