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Despite a still ATLANTIC pattern and firmly positive NAO, winter has definitely made it’s presence felt across a large swathe of Ireland, UK and parts of the near continent. The northwest flow has become more pronounced following the big low of a few days ago. Snowfall has become pretty substantial above 2-300m with ice and dusting to […]
Across northern areas of the Republic, Northern Ireland and the UK, it’s been another cold, windy and snowy day with more thunder, lightning and hail thrown in for good measure. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] While further snow showers pile in from a more northerly direction over Scotland with a significant ice risk developing tonight, it’s all eyes on […]
The storm is hitting and for some it’s hitting hard. Here it’s been very windy borderline stormy but nothing new for winter. What I will say is that the waves generated by this thing are impressive. It’s also a cold storm with icy gales not the mild gales of last year. We’ve seen blizzard conditions […]
Obviously most of us are on the hunt of winter weather and the focus is mainly medium to long range but I thought it’s best to focus on the upcoming 72 hour period given the severity of winds we’re likely to face. Is this impending storm unusual for the UK? No but it will bring potential […]
Thanks to the direction which which Atlantic lows and their cold fronts have dropped into the UK, winter has well and truly arrived in the UK. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Above 200 metres, there’s plenty of snow cover now in place and despite a very brief ‘warm-up’ during Tuesday, then next shot comes in behind a particularly […]
The latest in a series of cold fronts has pushed through Scotland and heading SE over England and Wales. The coldest air to date (Greenland sourced) is bringing the first snowfall to many parts of Scotland today. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Here’s the surface chart at 12z today. We’ve a true northwest flow blowing in straight from […]
What a difference a year makes. We are in a mean northwesterly air pattern in which waves of polar-maritime air is being driven south over the UK and near continent with snow likely to become a much more common form of precip through the second half of this weekend on into mid and late week following the […]
The 1st of 3 fronts has now exited Scotland heading SE’ward and as expected, we’ve an icy start here with SNOW showers now feeding in. Here’s the view along the A82 near Glen Coe. Winds will pick up from the NW today pushing through rain and hill snow showers. Don’t expect much of a warm-up despite any sun as […]
We have yet another cold front sweeping south across the UK today and it will make a move southeast tonight into tomorrow. Behind it, it turns noticeably colder, so much so that showers turn increasingly to snow and winds freshen from the northwest which means an ice risk Friday morning, particularly across northern parts of the UK and Northern Ireland. […]
With regards to winter here in Western Europe, there appears to be too much focus on the NAO without properly understanding the physics behind it and how it works. I have said in recent weeks and since I began my winter forecast for this year that for us here in Europe, the NAO is probably of greater importance […]
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