While the cool, northwest flow, sunshine and April showers dominate the UK and Ireland through next week, areas of surface low pressure are forming south of a trough dropping down over the UK and Ireland. These surface cut offs, divorced from the main upper flow (jet stream) can plague regions for many days,l even a week or more because […]
Today is most certainly the warmest day of the year so far across the Northern Plains and boy what a turnaround from just a few days ago when it hit 10 degrees all the way to the Texas Panhandle and highs were stuck at or below 32 for many places in Kansas. Today, temperatures are already soaring into […]
Scotland The heavy, thundery showers of today packing gusty winds and hail, should die away through this evening. Beneath clear skies and fairly light winds thanks to a building high, it’s another cold late April night for all with patchy rural frost. Lows down to 2-3C in towns and cities, 1 to -2C in rural areas. Saturday is looking good […]
This April will be one many of us remember for a very long time, especially those living in the Northern Plains where spring has yet to arrive, although it will over the next 24 hours! This April has set astonishing all-time records for snowiest month in cities well familiar with snow, Duluth and Rapid City with over […]
Temperatures climbed to 23°C (73°F) in London today, making for the UK’s warmest day of the year so far. As you well know, colder air is coming down and will wipe out this pleasant precusor of things to come by as early as tonight. The frontal boundary which seperated two very different air masses began to dive south […]
Scotland After a rather wet start across the southern half of the country, this afternoon has seen some decent sunshine albeit a little cool in the breeze but out of that breeze and you can feel the warmth off the sun. Through tonight any showers die away and remain confined to the NW and clear skies for most […]
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any colder and more outrageous this April, we’ll it did over the central Plains yesterday as parts of Kansas didn’t even manage to reach freezing, that’s a solid 40° below normal and for April 23rd, that to me is comparable to the ‘off the scale’ records being set for heat last […]
Enjoy the warmth while it lasts because we’re about to return to a March-like chill as we head towards the weekend. The NAO has now ‘peaked’ and is now heading back towards a negative signal, promising a chilly first half to May for the UK, Ireland and western Europe while ridging will bring a nice warm-up over […]
Scotland After a wet and breezy night and start to your Tuesday, conditions have improved considerably through this afternoon with decent spells of sunshine to be enjoyed by most. Through tonight and while we see a fairly clear and calm night from the Central Lowlands northwards, it turns into another wet night across the South thanks […]
The continuation of cold records being set is quite amazing and when you see lows down to single digits in South Dakota (8° at Huron, latest single digit reading on record!), 12° in Rapid City on April 23, it’s amazing so late in the season. Lows dove back into the 20s all the way into the […]
Recent Comments