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We have quite the interesting weather pattern this weekend thanks to low pressure to the north and high pressure to the south and a strong zonal jet stream roaring in between. Here was this afternoon’s visible satellite imagery below showing cloudless skies over southern Britain while gale-force winds and persistent rain affected Scotland, even Northern […]
The summer of 2020 will likely be remembered for the period between July 30 and August 10. It was between these dates an this brief period in which historic heat occurred. Otherwise it was a rather changeable and often cool, damp summer. Here’s how the 500mb geopotential height anomaly has looked for summer 2020. In […]
Summer 2020 will be remembered as ‘very changeable’ but with extremes of wet, cool and hot. In terms of 500mb pattern, the summer forecast has been good with low pressure the rule. Actual 500mb geopotential anomaly from 1 June – 10 Aug. While June was slightly warmer-than-average, July was slightly below average and as forecast, the […]
July 2020 is likely the UK’s coolest since 2012 thanks to the dominance of low pressure and winds blowing in off a cooler-than-normal Atlantic. The temperature rise and fall within a 72 hour period between July 30-August 1 over Southeast England has been quite remarkable. Heathrow Airport in west London has been grabbing all the […]
Tuesday (below) was a notably cool late July day for Scotland and barely average for the rest of the UK in what’s likely to be the UK’s coolest since 2012. Wednesday wasn’t a whole lot better. However, we have potentially our strongest surge of summer heat on the way and not because of a big […]
The month of July has been, as forecast, a very changeable month dominated by lower than normal pressure. That lower than normal pressure has delivered frequent spells of rain and with more cloud than sunshine, sub-par temperatures. In fact, we may well have just went through our coldest July for the UK since 2012 and […]
The far north of Scotland typically sees the UK’s coldest temperatures during the height of summer, often falling to between 0 and 2C. Yesterday morning was no exception where Kinbrace, Sutherland dipped beneath clear, calm skies to a frosty -0.6C. The Kinbrace record low for July in -1.8C according to climate historian Maximiliano Herrera. Yesterday’s […]
June 2020 was largely dominated by low pressure and at the close of the month, a stalled area of low pressure over Scotland brought record rainfall. Position and stalled nature of this low was key to producing a new UK 24-hour June rainfall record. 1. Stalled low 2. Spiraling rain band crossing waters +4C above […]
You don’t get much more of a temperature swing in back to back months than what we’ve seen over Scandinavia from June and July thus far. Thanks to an unusually strong and persistent blocking high (same system which produced UK’s driest spring) it was a record warm June across Norway, Sweden and Finland as well […]
2020 is following in 2018 and 2019’s footsteps in producing record heat in Scotland. While both Glasgow and Edinburgh set new all-time heat records in 2018 and 2019 respectively, a new June record was set in Prestwick, Ayrshire last Thursday. Forecast models had 28-29C for parts of south and central Scotland but it was the […]
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