According to the mid-month stats released by the Met Office, the UK as a whole is sitting at just 26% of the normal April rainfall. Dry yes but what will keep this likely out of the top 3-5 spot is the near average rain up in Northwest Scotland and the rain in the forecast but the outlook remains […]
A powerful upper ridge of high pressure has tormented the Asian Sub-continent since late March and throughout April with many inland areas exceeding 38C or 100F day after day. The persistency is probably the biggest contributor to the deaths hundreds of deaths across India and Pakistan. No relief in sight with May often the hottest time of year with […]
As we look out through the next 7-10 days or the remainder of April, it looks like the high to the west, low to the east setup sticks around with additional waves of late season arctic air dropping south. The current cold shot was a glancing blow for UK but over Germany and Poland it’s […]
A bane to shipping and a little earlier than normal but since late March over 600 huge icebergs have neared Newfoundland’s north and eastern shores. The last 3 weeks has nearly seen as many icebergs than in all of 2016. The vast majority of icebergs around the Grand Banks is calved off the Greenland ice sheet and drift south with wind and current […]
As we continue to speed through April, the US pattern remains largely the same. Bowling ball lows crossing the country with warm, humid ahead and cool, dry behind. As pointed out in my last two videos, there appears to have a hint at a late season frost or even freeze deep into the Ohio and Tennessee Valley. Perhaps I’m […]
While it’s looking and feeling more and more like summer across Southern Spain/Portugal down to the Canaries, arctic air is drilling south one last time and we’ve some unusually cool nights in store. Temps touched 35C in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria this afternoon. This was the scene from Bajamar, Tenerife this afternoon. Meanwhile, a […]
In a non El Nino year following a record strong El Nino, 2016-17 has seen California bombarded by the Pacific. Last year’s record tying Super El Nino brought little drought relief and strangely it came this water year when there was no El Nino. A delayed reaction perhaps? Following wave after wave of storms, the latest wave has pushed the Northern […]
Well just look at that, the UK’s warmest, coldest, wettest and sunniest Easter Day has all been within the last 6 years! Breakdown on our extremes from the Met Office Easter weather facts Easter can fall in a period of 35 days because it is calculated as the first Sunday after the first full moon […]
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