Rest of Europe
While high pressure dominates the UK and near continent this week with a stiff push of mild sub-tropical air, it appears the models shift towards more unsettled next week with some pretty intense lows showing up on the models. It’s still pretty far out yet in terms of accurately predicting intensity but when glancing at both […]
The cold air will continue to shift into eastern Europe this week as ridging builds into the west from the Atlantic. Snow and cold sinks deeper into southeastern parts tomorrow through Wednesday as the same storm which hammered the Northern UK spins over Russia to the NE of Moscow. That low will bring further snow to St Petersburg down into Moscow and Kiev and the stinging NNW flow […]
Following the destructive power of yesterday’s storm which not only brought hurricane-force winds, heavy rain, flooding, sleet and snow to the UK and western Europe but it also produced the most significant North Sea tidal storm surge for England since 1953 according to the Environment Agency. Parts of Europe was also hit very hard by the hurricane-like surge […]
As forecast, the much anticipated, rapidly intensifying storm which forecasters have been closely watching for days struck northern Britain early this morning. The storm which formed rapidly over the northeast Atlantic to the south of Iceland and close to Scotland was fuelled and energised by a large thermal gradient and supported from above by a mighty 160kt+ jet stream which a strong low […]
A rather innocuous ‘dent’ embedded within a brisk west upper flow is soon to take centre stage on our weather maps here in the UK and Western Europe over the next 72 hours. This mere dent is soon to become a major Atlantic depression with pressure expected to plunge some 20 to 40mb over a 12 to 24 hour period […]
As ridging builds north up the US East Coast and ridging also holds over the UK, the focus of coldest air over the hemisphere will be centred over Greenland today through Wednesday but that changes dramatically by the end of this week. This morning is the coldest in a good couple of weeks over Greenland with -55C or -67F recorded at Summit Camp […]
In today’s post I want to take another look at the coming arctic blast late week and through next weekend for Ireland, UK and pretty much ALL of Europe. From looking at the last 4 to 6 days of modelling, I expect the upcoming cold spell to last 3 to 5 days starting later Thursday with a chance of snow as a […]
While a lot of focus is on the snow across south-central and southeast Europe this week and next week’s arctic cold but let’s not overlook the continued storminess across the central Mediterranean. It seems for days now, Italy and much of south-central Europe has been plagued by cold and stormy weather with choppy seas, gales, flooding rains and of course snowfall. The trouble […]
Although the latest run (12z) GFS has retreated from late next week’s arctic blast, the ECMWF remains firm in bringing down the strongest shot of cold yet into Ireland, the UK and western Europe. The next 5 days or so looks rather quiet with a flattening of the upper pattern beyond this weekend where we’ll […]
We have some very mild air in place at the moment across the UK with temperatures once again up into double figures in the North and yes, the South joined in on this milder air today but that mild air get pushed somewhat south of Scotland tomorrow. After a colder night tonight with frost in places, we […]
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