Rest of Europe

The ECMWF has not backed away from a potentially troublesome weather scenario for both Iceland and the UK late this weekend into early next week. The latest model run shows the deepest low yet and this may cause problems for power company’s on Iceland. The latest run takes a deepening low in between Iceland and Scotland and deepens […]

As we commence a new working week, it’s a cool and fairly unsettled start with frost to start Monday then through this afternoon, there are plenty of blustery showers around, especially down the eastern side of the British Isles. Somewhat drier, brighter and sunnier and a touch milder further west. The pesky low from the […]

Following the UK’s hottest September day in 7 years yesterday, today will be a very different day as low pressure develops at the base of a southbound trough dropping over the UK. The atmosphere has a lot of energy to disperse of as much colder, autumnal air sinks south while the heat of yesterday gets kicked east […]

Though temperatures are set to soar to 30, perhaps 31C tomorrow afternoon across parts of Southeast England, the cooling already filtering down through Northern Ireland and Scotland is a sure sign of things to come further south but that’s just half of the story. Low pressure is now in the process of replacing the high bringing the fine, […]

It’s much more like mid summer than the early stages of autumn as temperatures soar into the mid-20s over Southern and Eastern parts of the UK, upper 20s over the western coastal plain of Europe. As a front approaches the UK from the northwest. Southwest winds will increase and so temperatures are expected to rise further tomorrow […]

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 […]