Rest of Europe
Well I hope you enjoyed that lovely settled spell because we’re back to a more typical wet and windy regime starting today. Rain spreads northwards in two bands today and accompanying this will be strong winds. This system clears and it’s followed by another Tuesday-Wednesday but there is signs this is a short-lived change. High […]
With high pressure weakening across Northern Europe, a Med low began to turn northward into Italy and France and as it did, it unleased astonishing rains along the French Riviera causing devastating flash floods which killed up to 12 people. https://youtu.be/_c-bycWvBwQ Up to 150mm or 6 inches of rain fell within just 2 hours in […]
Here’s a quick glance at the 500mb height and surface temperature anomalies for September 2015 across Europe. Is this a setup which will be mirrored this winter? Note the difference in upper heights and temps from the June-August period with strongest heights/warmest temps across the South. Warming SST’s north of the UK is taking the mean ridge […]
It was another stunning day of cloud free skies. This powerful under ridge with surface pressure near 1040mb is completely supressing the atmosphere’s ability to produce clouds. This was the view from space and notice cloud and sea fog is restricted to the West Coast. UK view. This was my view along the shores of […]
It’s a tail of two halves for Western Europe these days, all thanks to the positioning of high pressure. As stated previous, when you’ve a northerly positioned high, it’s often unsettled underneath and when it’s unsettled across the north like it will be next week, it’s typically more settled underneath. Yesterday infrared satellite view shows […]
UPDATED: Temperatures reached 23.3C today at Braemar. The UK’s highest reading. Also, it was a well below normal September for rainfall across the UK with just 55% of normal. A good forecast for the month put out on Aug 24! We remain beneath the powerful influence of high pressure spanning some 1500-2000 miles and providing near cloudless […]
I would be lying if I said there was no similarity between this year’s pattern and SSTA (sea surface temperature anomaly) to 2009. Like summer 2009, we have endured a cool, wet, -NAO/AO warm season and even the Sep/projected Oct pattern looks similar. An incredible similarity in the 500mb geopotential height field between summer 2009 and 2015. Summer 2009 […]
Well did you manage to see the supermoon eclipse last night? Though not the best of quality, these were the images I managed to capture. As for the weather, well we’re firmly under the influence of a strong upper ridge, shielding us from any disturbed weather through the rest of this week. A perfect ending […]
Be sure to set your alarms for the rare supermoon lunar eclipse tonight. Said to peak around 3.11am, I’ll be setting my alarm probably around 2.15/2.30am to view this. Why? because the last time this occurred was the year before I was born and the next time, well it’ll be 2033. During the peak, the […]
A glorious September weekend is on tap throughout the UK extending into west-central Europe as heights build but what about next week? If you happen to be off, your in luck if staying in the UK but if you happen to be taking an end of season trip down to the Med, you may be sorely disappointed. […]
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