Rest of Europe

Despite a chilly, windy and at times wet weekend, the warmth has returned and impressive it was today over northeast Scotland thanks to strong early September sunshine, a stiff but warming SW wind and downsloping off the Grampians. Typically chilly and misty Aberdeen soared to 25C which would be considered very respectable even in mid-July. This occurred while many […]

We’ve reached September 1st and the official start to meteorological autumn but the calendar won’t reflect the weather pattern this week. In fact it’s going to look and feel a lot like mid-summer not only across the UK and Ireland but across the vast majority of Europe this week as high pressure builds and expands dramatically. The […]

For a solid week, I’ve been studying the models closely at what could be a rare, even historic late summer snowstorm for Iceland. The models had a low forming over the Davis Straits and swinging across Greenland, picking up bitterly cold air as it did, then deepened it on approach to Iceland late this week and weekend. That […]

The latest run of the ECMWF has very little change with the Icelandic storm this weekend. Cold air, wind and snow all remain on the table. The one slight shift is minimum pressure which is up nearer 980mb over Iceland but this is a marginal difference. The 5,000ft temps remain at 0C or lower as the storm passes and northerly winds look just […]

Not one but two lows of polar origin (formation between Greenland and Canada) will slam Iceland, likely presenting winter extremely early. Just last year on Sept 15th, a rare, even unprecedented snowstorm struck northern parts of the Nordic Isle, killing many sheep and cutting off my northern residents and visitors. Less than a year on […]

It’s been a splendid day across the vast majority of the UK across the North Sea to the Low Countries up into Denmark and Scandinavia and the rest of this week is looking largely fine, dry, warm and settled with the Azores high dominant but it’s the polar low which continues to be seen by the […]

While the main low weakens and lifts north of Iceland, a large piece of it’s original energy has split and is bringing heavy, flooding rains to eastern England this afternoon. This energy is diving SE and aiding in the formation of a newly forming low at the tail of the original front. This seemingly innocuous feature will intensify and push southeast into […]

The heat is well and truly on this afternoon across Southeast England as a low off Iceland and a large high centred over Scandinavia promotes warm southerly winds over the UK. Combine those warm southerly winds with some sunshine and the temperature has risen into the balmy 26-29C territory. However cloud and rain is spreading into western parts as the frontal system attached […]

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, as we push ever closer to September the west-east movement of our weather systems or progression of them is showing signs of speeding up as cold air begins to gain ground across the north. This increasing temperature imbalance is gradually accelerating the upper level winds, forcing ridges and troughs to move […]