Archive for 2026
Day/date: Sunday 14 June, 2026 Munros: Càrn Dearg 945m/3,100ft (No 92) Càrn Sgulain 920m/3,019ft (No 93) A’ Chailleach 930m/3,050ft (No 94) Start point: End of public road in Glen Banchor (nr Newtonmore) Drive length: 1h 20m / 62 miles Walk length: 15.5 miles / 9.35 hours Weather: BASE: Sun/cloud mix, light breeze, 10C /SUMMITS Cloud/Mist, moderate wind, 6/9C, WC 3C […]
Day/date: Saturday 6 June, 2026 Munros: Fionn Bheinn 933m/3,061ft (No 91) Start point: Achnasheen station Drive length: 50 min / 36 miles Walk length: 7.5 miles / 3.40 hours Weather: BASE: Sun/cloud mix, light breeze, 14C /SUMMIT Mostly cloudy, moderate wind, 9C, WC 6C Bheinn Eighe (right) Liathach (left) Lochan Fada (right) Slioch (left) Looking east across Loch Fannich to the […]
UK SUMMER 1994 — THE LAST USA WORLD CUP SUMMER Why Summer 1994 Is So Fondly Remembered The summer of 1994 delivered one of the most dramatic combinations of heat, humidity and thunderstorms seen in modern UK weather history. It was also the year the football World Cup was held in the USA, the Channel Tunnel opened, […]
May 2026 will go down as one of the weirdest, wildest and perhaps most extreme month’s on record. From mild start, cold middle (coldest in 15 years) to arguably one of Western Europe’s most anomalous weather events. A heatwave which within the final 10 days flipped the month from coolest since January to one of […]
Welcome to my 16th annual UK/Europe summer forecast. As always, when compiling this forecast for the upcoming June-August period there are multiple factors which are taken into consideration. They include the past winter pattern, type of spring just observed as well as the current ENSO state, global and regional sea surface temperature anomalies etc. THE BIGGEST FACTOR […]
May has been a month of extremes with warm start, cool middle (coolest since 2010) followed by arguably one of Britain and Ireland’s most exceptional heatwaves. Just a week ago, it was running firmly below average, now, like March and April, warmer than average to complete a firmly warmer than average spring of 2026. As […]
Key Factors First of all let’s see what’s considered normal. Tropical Cyclone Climatology Number Named systems Hurricanes Major Hurricanes 1 Jun 20 Aug 11 Sep 1 2 Jul 17 Aug 26 Sep 19 3 Aug 3 Sep 7 Oct 28 4 Aug 15 Sep 16 – 5 Aug 22 Sep 28 – 6 Aug 29 […]
For UK and Ireland, April 2026 was wet through 1st half, dry 2nd half and generally mild for all with decent warmth to end. Another warm one for west and north, cool, wet east of Europe. Global temp & precip anomaly for April 2026 Europe UK Stats/Highlights April showers in shorter supply, but sunshine plentiful […]
May 2026 shall open warm and sunny with widespread low 20s up and down the British Isles with even warm into France and Iberia while it’s wintry on the opposite end of the continent. 26/27C possible in SE England Friday. However, this warm and dry West/cold, wet East contrast looks to quickly even itself out […]
March and spring’s opening month was dominated by a strongly +AO/NAO with a deep trough stretching from Alaska to Greenland with strong ridging over North America & Europe. Unfortunately the below 500mb geopotential anomaly below only goes out to the 17th. The ridging over North America and eastern Europe was unusually strong and persistent… This […]
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