Rest of Europe
We’re looking at a chilly high pressure pattern to end the weekend and commence the new working year but it turns wet and increasingly windy mid week and particularly next weekend. There’s good cross model agreement that two lows will significantly impact Irish and British shores around Wednesday and late Friday after a frosty start to […]
In the video I said I wasn’t going to put up a written post today but since I’ll be taking tomorrow off, I thought I would throw up a few of my latest thoughts as we commence 2015. Firstly, today… New Years Day. Notice the mild feel? That’s thanks to a strong SW wind blowing […]
Just as the model showed from several days back, we’ve seen brutal cold along with snow reach the shores of the Mediterranean and Algeria in the last 12 to 24 hours. GFS from a few days ago. Setif, Algeria Palermo, Sicily Calabria, Italy Bari, Italy Further east and following heavy snowfall in the last few […]
It remains THEORY until it physically happens but the latest GFS projections look even better than the previous runs. If correct, it would appear a sudden stratospheric warming event is ready to occur with a 180 degree turn from strong cold pool to strong warm pool over Greenland within 10 days. TOP IMAGE: A stunning sunrise over […]
We have a shift in the pattern now taking place with the return of milder westerlies and active Atlantic pattern just in time for New Year. This is removing the first proper ‘cold spell’ of winter and really of 2014 but without a -NAO this happens more often than not (short lived cold spells). The reason for this […]
Tonight looks likely to be the coldest of this current spell for the UK as high pressure becomes established overhead. Daytime max’s will struggle to get much above freezing from Birmingham northward. Where there’s snow cover, it will stay in the 0 to -2C range setting the stage for the coldest night of the winter and […]
Well I must say the GFS has done a pretty decent job with the snowfall across parts of central/southern Britain as well as Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France where up to 10 inches has fallen even at low levels. Even without the snow, it will be cold but where you’ve snow on the ground, expect […]
The Christmas to New Year period I had earmarked a few weeks back for the attack of winter over much of Europe is playing out. The upcoming days days will be a shock to most Europeans following a warm past 12 months. The coldest UK temp up until last night’s -8C at Braemar was a mere -7.7C. […]
Well I trust your having an enjoyable Christmas Day so far. As forecast for quite some time, it’s a largely dry and bright but feeling rather than looking like Christmas out there. Lot’s of interesting weather on the way over the next few days as we’re LIKELY to see the first significant snowfall outwith mountainous areas of Scotland […]
Happy Christmas Eve! As I’m sure you’ll appreciate, today’s busy and I’m rather limited in terms of posting but do check out this morning’s video. Throwing up a few of the charts shown in the video for you to see more closely. Here’s the scene on the A9 this morning. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Less than one […]
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