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Southern Britain Prepares For Powerful Weekend Storm

Written by on October 25, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments

We have the perfect meteorological environment and setup across the Atlantic and Europe for ‘rapidly deepening low pressure development’ SW of the UK during late Saturday through late Sunday. Check out the feature image above of a powerful storm system currently over the North Atlantic. Models drop pressure down to at least 955 mb tonight. This system is […]

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Soaking And Increasingly Stormy Pattern For Western Europe

Written by on October 24, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 2 Comments

As expected the Western Europe pattern is becoming more and more active as the upper height field shifts and the arctic oscillation flips strongly positive, so too will the NAO over the next week to 10 days therefore supporting the continuation of the zonal and very active Atlantic pattern across Europe. The warmer than normal waters across the […]

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Warm AMO Doing It’s Dirty Work On UK AGAIN, Wet, Wet, Wet!

Written by on October 22, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 2 Comments

Up till recently, many UK sites were below normal for rainfall this October but sure enough, the warm waters surrounding the UK as well as out across the North Atlantic, reflective of the continued warm AMO has switched the hose on. The turn to the much more active Atlantic pattern has been anticipated as the season […]

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Wettest Week In Months For Western Europe, Pattern Shift Taking Place!

Written by on October 21, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 4 Comments

It’s been a wet and in some causes rather stormy weekend with flooding rains for some while even a rare tornado was sighted in the Netherlands yesterday morning. The Atlantic is becoming much more turbulent as the season continues to progress and oceanic feedback to the atmosphere changes course. The upcoming 5-7 days suggests the […]

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Sweden Hits -18C As Eurasia Snowcover Expands West, Stormier Pattern Ahead?

Written by on October 18, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 1 Comment

As the sun rose over Europe this morning, it unveiled a rather impressive looking satellite presentation with bands of cloud clearly marking where the ridge and trough was as well as where the warm and cold air was. As well as throwing rain bearing fronts across Iberia, France and up into Ireland and the UK, a large and complex low […]

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Staying Mild, Wet Across UK, First Significant Snow For Scandinavia

Written by on October 17, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 1 Comment

The Atlantic is busy these days with multiple swirls of low pressure spinning off Europe and these will continue to spread one front after the other across the UK, France and Spain in coming days along with strong, gusty winds. Further north and east and cold air is bleeding south over Scandinavia. While one front lifts out of Ireland […]

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Wet & Mild For UK While Chilly With Snow In Scandinavia

Written by on October 16, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments

While there may not be any cold on the horizon for the UK through the next 7-10 days, there is however mild and wet weather on the way and if you read yesterday’s post, that’s NOT a bad thing at this time of year. This will be a brief post tonight on Europe as there […]

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Could Summer Hangover Be Dictating October Pattern Over Europe? What Does This Mean?

Written by on October 15, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments

I was doing a little research this afternoon and trying to see if there was any connection between October and November temperatures/precipitation with the following winter over western Europe. I looked at the October temperatures and precipitation for a selection of UK cities but there was no clear indication that I could find which suggested a certain type […]

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Battle Between Atlantic And Arctic Air Over Europe This Week

Written by on October 14, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments

The next spell of -NAO, AO is setting up and yet another shot of arctic air is diving into Europe. The models are in pretty good agreement that the bulk of the arctic air dropping south over Scandinavia will stay north and east of the UK as yet another ridge tries to fight back the […]

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Latest CFS Shows ‘Block’ Buster Winter

Written by on October 12, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 1 Comment

Though models have been all over the place in recent weeks, I thought I would take a glance at the latest CFS for November through March and boy, the charts sure caught my eye. The funny thing is. I believe the latest output! See video for more.. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Check these out… Nov Dec Jan […]

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