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Yet another meteorological summer draws to a close and it appears to be bowing out briefly warm and settled then unsettled (as of 22nd Aug) courtesy of Ex-Hurricane Erin, once a Cat 5. August, as expected was the more up and down month of the three and largely but not exclusively driven by Atlantic tropical […]
It’s been a fascinating summer so far. From cool and at times wet, to record summer heat followed by a record summer storm. Warmth looks set to return in a more modified fashion soon. Back on 12th July, 2025 Scotland was in the midst of a heatwave which set all-time records across the Highlands. On […]
July like June has been a month featuring a little of everything. Some notable heat, cool and wet in what’s been a summer leaning more warm than not. Rainfall distribution has been highly variable, especially with thunderstorms. The first half of the month saw the heat focus from Iberia to Scotland before shifting north and […]
While Southern and Southeastern England has taken the majority of summer’s heat. The most recent installment of hot weather however was shared more widely and boy was it not an impressive spell, especially for Scotland as well as Ireland, Northern Ireland up into Scandinavia including Iceland. Through 10th July and before the arrival of the […]
For much of Europe away from Scandinavia and Russia, June has been a warm month (one of the warmest from Spain to Germany), cooler and wetter Iceland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Baltics. The 500mb geopotential shows an extreme Icelandic trough/Med ridge setup leading to persistent heat across the South vs much […]
Despite the unsettled end to May and likely ‘wipe out’ of being one of the driest May’s, spring 2025 goes down as mildest, sunniest on record for the UK and Ireland and one of the driest. For Europe, May was warm and dry in the west and cool and wet in the east. Spring as […]
Another February and meteorological winter is drawing to an end. A month and season milder and drier than average for UK and Ireland, another very mild winter for most of Europe but colder February for central and southeast. February temp anomaly through the 26th. Looks like January and February combined was average to slightly below […]
Although there’s still 8 days remaining, Here’s a scoring of my 2024-25 winter forecast. Here’s what was said back on the 24th November 2024. Global drivers/teleconnections in play as of late November. What we know… Warm oceans overall NEUTRAL to Weak La Nina Cold PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation) Warm AMO (Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation) Neutral IOD […]
January 2025 has been a mixed month but largely dominated by a -AO/NAO hemispheric setup with likely coldest opening 10 days since 2010 for both UK and Ireland. The cold first half broke around the 12th as northerlies were abruptly replaced by southerlies causing the temperature to lift by some 25-32C within a mere 72 […]
December and the first of the three meteorological winter months has been mild for Ireland, UK and much of Europe. Europe temp anomaly through 24th December. One of the warmest December’s over the higher lats of Eurasia, North America but also note the chill across N Africa, Middle East and mid lat Asia. The rest […]
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