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Fascinating Weekend & Week Of Active Weather For UK/Ireland

Written by on August 22, 2015 in Rest of Europe, Summer 2015, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Fascinating Weekend & Week Of Active Weather For UK/Ireland

We’ve got a fascinating weekend of weather ahead with big contrasts now underway between Northwest Scotland and Southeast England. In between, a seemingly innocuous stalled front draped from Cornwall to Northumberland is now lighting up as the thermal gradient over the UK increases. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Hot, humid air lifting out of France and bumping up against […]

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UK Will Act As Atlantic Low Pressure Punch Bag Next 7 Days

Written by on August 21, 2015 in Rest of Europe, Summer 2015, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
UK Will Act As Atlantic Low Pressure Punch Bag Next 7 Days

We have a strengthening negative NAO pattern developing in which an eastern Canada-Greenland-Scandinavian blocking high joins forces and locks in a deep trough underneath. Because high pressure extends south of Greenland and south of Scandinavia into southern and southwestern Europe, the UK sits beneath the eastern flank of the low in which embedded lows shall rotate around […]

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Hot, Humid, Stormy Weekend Ahead For UK

Written by on August 20, 2015 in Rest of Europe, Summer 2015, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Hot, Humid, Stormy Weekend Ahead For UK

It’s been a fairly decent week overall with plenty of warm sunshine on offer and it’s felt more like it should for the time of year across Northern Ireland and Scotland. In the sunshine yesterday, temperatures reached 24.4C in Northwest Highland Scotland and despite the cloud today, it remains fairly muggy as an Icelandic low draws […]

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Series Of Unusually Deep Lows To End August?

Written by on August 19, 2015 in Rest of Europe, Summer 2015, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Series Of Unusually Deep Lows To End August?

Well, the medium to long range period is becoming harder to forecast. We’re about to enter a transitional period where summer wanes and autumn begins. Always a challenging time for forecasting. Especially when we’re experiencing such a strong El Nino and we have such a chilly AMO. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Following a spell of relatively settled […]

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Uncertainty Over The Details Of Next Week, Another Potential Warm Surge For UK!

Written by on August 18, 2015 in Rest of Europe, Summer 2015, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Uncertainty Over The Details Of Next Week, Another Potential Warm Surge For UK!

Over the next 48 hours we will have our weather coming in from both sides. In from the North Sea (today) and from Atlantic (tomorrow) and so today’s sunshine and relative warmth in the West means a cool, steady rain in the East, expect the opposite tomorrow as the eastern front (associated with the Scandinavian blocking high) fades, then allows for an Atlantic front, […]

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Sprawling Scandinavian High Brings Change To UK & Mainland Europe Weather

Written by on August 17, 2015 in Rest of Europe, Summer 2015, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Sprawling Scandinavian High Brings Change To UK & Mainland Europe Weather

As expected, the UK is sandwiched between fronts with clear, settled conditions in between. While the Atlantic tries to throw the next low our way, the expanding Scandinavian high with wind and rain along it’s western flank is attempting to push in from the North Sea and will do tonight and tomorrow. This is an […]

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July Warmest On Record Globally? UK And USA Not As Warm As They’d Have You Believe!

July Warmest On Record Globally? UK And USA Not As Warm As They’d Have You Believe!

It seems every month according to NOAA and NASA are the warmest EVER. May was warmest, June was warmest and now July is warmest. That’s globally of course! With the strong El Nino well underway, let’s face it. Those on the global warming side of the argument need to push the warmth since this is […]

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WESTERN EUROPE: Weather Pattern Taking A Turn For The Better In September?

Written by on August 15, 2015 in Rest of Europe, Summer 2015, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
WESTERN EUROPE: Weather Pattern Taking A Turn For The Better In September?

After a prolonged and persistent pattern in which low pressure with frequent spells of cool, wet and at times windy conditions dominated Northwest Europe and high pressure with dry, hot conditions over much of the continent, we appear to have a change in the upper air pattern as we approach autumn 2015’s first month. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Quite often, […]

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Scandinavian High To End Heat wave, Bring Prolonged Settled Weather To UK, Ireland

Written by on August 14, 2015 in Rest of Europe, Summer 2015, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Scandinavian High To End Heat wave, Bring Prolonged Settled Weather To UK, Ireland

It’s been a wet open to Friday, stormy for some but there’s rarely a west to east split in precipitation than this morning. While bone dry in Glasgow, it was pouring it down 35 miles east in Edinburgh. Of course heavy rainfall has made for travel issues through the heart of England too. The GFS […]

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UAH Global Temperature Report: July 2015 – the pause continues

Written by on August 13, 2015 in Rest of Europe, Summer 2015 with 0 Comments
UAH Global Temperature Report: July 2015 – the pause continues

Article by Watts Up With That UAH Global Temperature Report: July 2015 – the pause continues Anthony Watts / 25 mins ago August 13, 2015 Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.11 C per decade July temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.18 C (about 0.32 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for July. Northern Hemisphere: +0.33 […]

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