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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

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

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

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

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

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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Interesting Pattern Change Coming For Europe, First Big Snows For Alps

Written by on October 6, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments

Well we appear to be on our way to normality with the first trough driving colder air south in the Wednesday through Friday period. This shot of chill is by no means out of the ordinary but it will ‘feel’ cold given the out of the ordinary warmth we’ve had of late. How warm has it been? […]

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Is Possible Break In W Europe Ridge Next Week A Sign? Eurasian Snowcover Ahead Of Last Year!

Written by on October 5, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 2 Comments

For those living here on the western side of Europe you may be asking where the heck is autumn or the cooler weather you would expect at this time of year, well you only have to look at the other side of the continent where it’s looking and feeling more like early winter rather than early […]

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Ridging Dominates Europe Next Week As NAO/AO Goes Back Positive

Written by on October 3, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 1 Comment

While we have very much a west-east split in the temperature profile across Europe right now with temperatures still at 17 or 18C over parts of England despite it being dark, temperatures in Moscow are now dropping below freezing for the first time this autumn. In the last 2-4 days, warm, moist southerly winds have driven […]

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Snowy Scenes Already Showing Up Over SE Europe, Record Cold Nights Ahead!

Written by on October 1, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 2 Comments

The unusually cold air predicted to sweep into eastern Europe as the UK ridge builds northeast into Scandinavia is doing so and we’re already seeing rather winter-like conditions with cold and SNOW across portions of Romania. This push of unseasonable cold will continue through the rest of the week. Here was a picture sent to me […]

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Low Pressure Returns To UK, Siberian Air Could Break Records In Eastern Europe

Written by on September 30, 2013 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments

The pattern is slowly changing over Europe as the upper low which brought Scandinavia it’s first taste of winter exits allowing the UK ridge to finally start shifting northeast, centring itself over Scandinavia. By doing so, it allows the sprawling and rather strong low SW of the UK to lift northeast replacing high pressure with low pressure and […]

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