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With little to no change in the great wheel of the Arctic Oscillation, our Atlantic siege continues with an increasingly windy day across Ireland and the UK. Always wettest in the North and West and the combination of gales along with bursts of moderate and at times heavy rain, it’s not the nicest of Wednesdays. Dry, cloudy […]
There’s no question, this years powerful El Nino is most certain influencing the GLOBAL weather pattern and helping drive unusually warm air from the tropics into the mid-latitudes. The strong +AO/NAO is helping with this process as the circling westerlies bringing heavy rain as well as transport heat across continents. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] This is how […]
UPDATE: It’s been confirmed that the UK has set a new 24 and 48-hour rainfall record this weekend. 341.4mm (13 inches) fell within 24 hours at Honister breaking the previous record set back in 2009 and 405mm (16 inches) fell within 48 hours at Thirlmere. Confirmation from Met Office. It’s safe to say that this past weekend has been eventful, unfortunately devastating for many […]
Every Saturday in the run up to New Year, I thought it might be good to take a step back in time and relive some of our very worst, most extreme winters of the last 100 years. The brutal winter of 1962-63 will be long remembered as one of the worst. Take a look at this amazing […]
UPDATE: Winds gusting 112 mph over Aonach Mor summit, just north of Fort William. We’re in for a wild end to the work week and weekend of weather all courtesy of a near 940 low near Iceland and near 1040 high over the Bay of Biscay. That steep gradient means a very windy, if not stormy […]
An incredible back and fourth swing in recent months with a dry September, October and very wet November and now open to December. September was the UK’s coolest since 1994 while November was 3rd warmest on record and dullest on record too. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Remember, up until this year, the warmest November day was set back […]
The seeds to a warm, wet, zonal December have been sown. We have an on going cooling of the polar stratosphere at all levels which will bundle the coldest air within the arctic circle through much of this month. This draws warmer air from subtropics into mid-latitudes and powers a stronger than normal jet stream across Pacific, North America, Atlantic […]
Today marks the start of the coldest 90 days of the year. Meteorological Winter has begun. Will it be one to remember or forget? It was certainly a cold, frosty, icy and for some, SNOWY open to meteorological winter 2015-16 but today ends significantly milder as a surge of warmer air lifts northward, courtesy of the latest Atlantic system. […]
There’s a very distinct north-south boundary separating cold arctic air with mild subtropical air for both the United Kingdom as well as Europe. This gradient continues to fuel a very powerful jet that’s transporting system which have originated over North America, even the Pacific and this active, turbulent pattern looks set to stay. This morning, the below satellite view over […]
It’s a rough Sunday across Ireland, UK and near continent from France to Norway as very strong, gusty winds affect millions along with heavy and frequent showers over particularly Northern Ireland, N England and Scotland. These showers have been particularly problematic when accompanied by gusts over 60 mph which have fallen as snow over Scotland leading to blizzard conditions. An area of […]
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