Mark Vogan
Global temp & precip anomaly for January 2026 Europe UK Stats/Highlights MET OFFICE: Northern Ireland sees wettest January in 149 years as 2026 gets off to a wet and windy start January 2026 was a notably unsettled month for many across the UK, with persistent spells of heavy rain and strong winds. Provisional Met Office […]
January was, like many recent months, a tale of two halves with cold first half followed by less cold 2nd half. I say less cold because it wasn’t entirely mild. Some days a little above, some a little below and many nearer average and that should make for a slightly colder than average following the […]
Winter 2025-26’s first period has been truly remarkable for extreme cold, warmth then flip back to cold or very cold. Within the wilds of the Northwest corner of North America, December and first half of January has displayed true ‘old fashioned’ winter. December Away from Alaska and Canada’s Yukon and Northwest Territories, there was a […]
December 2025, as predicted both in my Winter Forecast & December Outlook was mild and wet with frequent lows and fronts affecting the NW of Europe including UK & Ireland. The southwest to northeast storm track kept the UK and Ireland on the warm, moist side of the ridge-trough couplet and higher pressure over Europe […]
An unusually warm, wet December ends cold, frosty and largely dry while January opens increasingly cold, with biting northerly. The northerly, packing 30 to 50+mph gusts shall usher in increasingly heavy and frequent snow showers. Low level accumulations of 5-10cm and 10-20, locally 30+ over high, exposed ground. A yellow snow and ice warning is […]
Despite a cooler end, December 2025 will be remembered for it’s persistent spells of wind, rain and warmth. On 9/10th Dec, Storm Bram (4th name of 2025/26 season) swept past. While generating the usual strong winds and heavy rains, probably the most notable aspect of this particular storm is the unusually warm air air pulled […]
Bi-Polar November’s seem to be a thing this recently. Abrupt swings from strong southwesterlies bringing record warmth to northerlies ushering in heavy snow and cold… Global temp & precip anomaly for November 2025 Europe The first 10 days was warm, even record warm across the continent with UK observing it’s warmest bonfire night on record. […]
December and meteorological winter starts mild and wet with the Atlantic the rule. The tail end of November finished with a rare SSW but being of the reflective type and supportive of North American cold outbreaks, the result for Europe is a stronger jet and reinforced low pressure dominance. While the MJO is strongly in […]
Welcome to my 16th consecutive Europe winter forecast. In this forecast, the conclusions drawn for the upcoming meteorological winter period (December-February) are based on current climate state and global drivers at play including current global SST profile, ENSO, IOD, QBO & Solar! Global Drivers Weak La Nina conditions Deepest -IOD Since 1996 Easterly QBO Warm […]
A variable month which started with mild west, cold in east along with Storm Amy slamming the UK/Ireland while record early snowfalls affected the Balkans. Into mid month and the ridge/trough pattern flipped around with colder east, warmer east and high variation in rainfall distribution. Global temp & precip anomaly for October 2025 Europe UK […]
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