Rest of Europe
It was another cold start to the day on both ends of the British Isles but Atlantic low pressure is closing in and will bring modifying southerly winds as we draw this week to a close. By Sunday, most of the UK should enjoy double digits and that’s above freezing of course! This pull back […]
The cold Europe pattern with Arctic/Greenland/North Atlantic blocking is well into a weakening phase as heights lower to the west of the UK and low pressure gains ground pushing the cold surface high east into continental Europe. Despite the gradual breakdown in this pattern, last night marked the coldest of winter for both the southern and northern UK. For the north, surface […]
Following the extreme mild of November/December, old man winter sure is catching up and gripping Europe in a big way. About as big of a turnaround as you’ll ever see! December anomaly January so far [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Cold and snow is the big talking point this month from the Black Sea to Highlands of Scotland. While the […]
As forecasted back at the beginning of last week, snow has indeed reached Greater London with a large swathe of the UK, especially central and northern areas under snow cover now. With cloud cover, snow cover isn’t as affective at driving down the temperature by night and without snow on the ground arctic air is wasted. However it looks […]
As the title says, we have not one but potentially 2 or 3 snow opportunities today through Monday/Tuesday. While plenty have seen snow in the last few days, plenty haven’t but I think fronts running into this deep low level cold will see snowfall and lying snow starting off in western/central Scotland as well as down the […]
Plenty of folks, mainly above 100m are waking to their first covering of snow this morning along with below freezing wind chills. Many of you who have stepped out this morning will have felt the difference, a drier, more biting cold representative of arctic air. Thanks to sunny skies, here’s a view of the Northern UK […]
It’s 4.45am and about to hit the road after defrosted my car. Thermals are on and taking the 2.5 hour drive up to Fort William where I am attempting to summit Aonach Mor elevation 4,006ft, 8th highest in UK today. This would be my 5th munro (Scottish mountain above 3,000ft) and most challenging given the solid winter conditions now […]
It’s kinda an all or nothing upcoming 5-7 day period for us. This ‘cold spell’ will be nothing special if we don’t get much in the way of snow on the ground except the higher elevations but with a widespread snow cover and with a 1032 surface high covering the UK, there’s the potential for […]
Well the ECMWF continues to go with the extreme cold card by laying down a sufficient UK snow cover followed by a 1036 surface high which slides over the snow fields and drives night temps towards -15, even -20. The GFS on the other hand is playing it down. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] It’s the finer details that will determine just how […]
As the title suggests, snow chances are on the increase this upcoming week with the fun and games likely to kick in mid week as low pressure moves into the North Sea and our flow becomes northerly. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] For Scotland, northern England and Wales as well as Ireland, snow is likely to come from […]
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