Rest of Europe

Despite the cool down across particularly the northern UK, high pressure does look to be holding on enough that it remains largely fine, dry and sunny. Low pressure at the base of the eastern trough has caused significant flooding rains across parts of the Balkans in the last 24-36 hours but it appears change is coming […]

Once again, Glasgow in the West of Scotland took the prize for the UK warm spot yesterday. The high peaked at 26.1C. The reason is simple, we’re closest to that 1032mb high pressure core with enough of a cap for least amount of cloud. Around the rim of the strongest heights (east Scotland down through much of […]

It was a beautiful and warm day particularly for Western Scotland yesterday while disappointing in your more typically favoured UK hot spots. The reason is all thanks to the positioning of the high. Centred NW of Scotland, the strongest heights and available sunshine has been here, nearest the core and we should see similar, unbroken […]

High pressure will be strongest with a 1032 core positioned just NW or Ireland, supporting a sun/cloud mix through the first half of the new working week. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Temperatures will be comfortable, not particularly cool, nor unusually warm. Where the sun stays out longest (mainly western areas), expect temps to climb into the 20-24C range. […]

Warm, largely fine, dry and settled weather looks to dominate Western Europe through the next 7 days, possibly the following 7. Here’s the 7-day mean 500mb height anomalies for Europe. The core of high pressure will sit right where the mean low was during the previous 7-10 days. ECMWF GFS [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Nice warm temps with sun, cloud […]

As per yesterday’s video, the weather is looking very promising indeed through the next 10 days as high pressure builds and settles westward over the NE Atlantic extending into the UK and western European mainland. This is largely down to a deep trough that’s dropped into eastern Europe which has brought welcome heat relief. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Check […]

Well it’s looking like modelling is in good agreement about the ridge, that’s now centred over the UK and Ireland will hold through the next 10-16 days in the means. It’s all thanks to a trough dropping and deepening over Russia down into the Ukraine where the heat has been strongest of late. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] […]

As expected, it’s been a rather unsettled start this week with widespread showers and storms around. Especially on mainland Europe where those storms have been severe and deadly. A trough is now bringing relief to eastern areas and in turn, the mean ridge is now shifting west into the Low Countries, France and the UK […]

We’ve seen (by far), some of the wildest weather in many years across parts of France, Germany into Poland with powerful storms blustering into mighty MCS’s. Last night was no exception with 9cm diameter hail falling within one MCS over France while another system in west Germany killed one with over 21k lightning strikes within […]

We continue to see two main drivers in our weather pattern this week. The large hot dome parked over the heart of the continent while a low continues to spin, stuck in place to the west of Ireland. These two systems will continue to keep things warm, humid and stormy with the front separating low […]