While temperature is running slightly above average, the first half of May has followed in April’s dry footsteps with considerably below normal rainfall. Parts of Scotland during the opening 15 days of this month only measured 5% of normal rain and this comes after Edinburgh’s driest April in 75 years with a mere 3mm or 5% of […]
After a lengthy time apart (due to work and birth of my 2nd daughter), the Irish-Czech duo were back in the hills on Saturday 22 April. Our last climb was Suilven up in Sutherland way back last September. We met in Cumbernauld and took to the road at the once again sleepy hour of 1am for Torridon. Route […]
May 18, 2017 will be remembered for it’s record breaking extremes. From 500+ severe weather reports stretching from Texas to New England of which 27 tornadoes were reported to UPPER 90-degree heat just east of the front to the 42 inches of snow in Colorado. Walters, OK reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 104 mph. While you could […]
Posted on 18 May, 2017 by Met Office Press Office The mid-month statistics for May (1-17 May) show the month got off to a dry start, although the heavy rain yesterday brought up rainfall totals in some areas. It has also been a sunny and moderately mild early May for many. The anticyclonic theme that […]
It’s an incredible day for weather and extremes on this May 18. You don’t see often if ever, winter storm warnings widely over the Rockies where Denver could see 2-4 inches, Cheyenne 12-24 inches while it’s in the low to mid 90s up the East Coast from DC to Boston and let’s not forget the HIGH RISK for […]
After ‘weeks’ of rainless skies and high pressure dominance, the upper air pattern finally shifted and it was firstly Scotland’s turn to get the soaking on Monday, then northern England and Wales Tuesday followed by southern and eastern England Wednesday. Ahead of the front, warm, moist, subtropical air flowing north, aided by sunshine allowed temperatures to top 30C in Paris yesterday […]
A pattern of extremes continues with a record breaking cold system sliding through the West, set to drop 2-4ft of snow in the Western high country while record low/mid 90s swelter the Eastern Seaboard. An unusually cold storm is expected to drop at least a couple of inches on Denver while 2 FEET may fall on Cheyenne, Wyo. This […]
Low pressure currently spinning over the northeast Atlantic (just west of Ireland) and high pressure over France is drawing unusually warm air aboard southwest winds north. Just as the low’s front pushed into Scotland overnight, temps held in the balmy upper teens overnight and only fell to 16C at Achnagart, Highland. Record warm for a May minimum. The warmth […]
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