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

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
Wet & Mild For UK While Chilly With Snow In Scandinavia

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

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
Battle Between Atlantic And Arctic Air Over Europe This Week

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
Latest CFS Shows ‘Block’ Buster Winter

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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Alps Receive One Of The Biggest October Snowfall’s In Recent Memory

Written by on October 11, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 1 Comment
Alps Receive One Of The Biggest October Snowfall’s In Recent Memory

As expected, not only the did the low cross the north coast of Scotland and dive down the North Sea bringing heavy rain and gales to SE Britain but it also cut off and dumped record early season snow on the Austrian, Swiss and Italian Alps over the past 36 hours. The low pressure system […]

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Dramatic Warm-Up In Iceland Helps Bring Munich It’s First Snow

Written by on October 10, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Dramatic Warm-Up In Iceland Helps Bring Munich It’s First Snow

It was just yesterday when we saw temperatures start off at -10C and remain at a chilly -2 to -4C during the day over Iceland while low pressure produced 98 mph winds over the Scottish Mountains and drove arctic origin air south. Today that low is dropping south over the North Sea and driving the coldest air of autumn […]

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Low Turns Iceland White, Drops Temp To -46C In Greenland, Brings UK First Taste Of Autumn

Written by on October 9, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Low Turns Iceland White, Drops Temp To -46C In Greenland, Brings UK First Taste Of Autumn

One low pressure system has been responsible for producing a sunset air temperature of -46C over interior Greenland last night, the first snowfall to the capital of Iceland, Reykjavik yesterday and 100 mph winds and the first blast of autumn to the UK today. Check out this stunning image capturing Reykjavik’s first snow of autumn 2013 yesterday, courtesy of […]

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A Sign Of Colder Times Ahead For Western Europe?

Written by on October 8, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 1 Comment
A Sign Of Colder Times Ahead For Western Europe?

The very low that’s set to usher in the first true autumn chill to the UK is bringing a near white out to parts of NW Iceland this evening while further west, clear, cold high pressure has settled over Greenland in the wake of the low. That low is playing a large role in the weather across a […]

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UK To Switch From Spanish To Icelandic Influence With Overnight Temps Dropping 17C!

Written by on October 7, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
UK To Switch From Spanish To Icelandic Influence With Overnight Temps Dropping 17C!

Hope your enjoying this warmth if you like this sort of thing in October because the big change in our pattern here in the UK looms. For the past few days, a front has been gradually working south from Iceland and will cross the UK tonight and tomorrow and it’s as this front passes, so […]

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