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Here’s a glance at the latest model output for Christmas Day. Note the good agreement with low coming in across central Scotland, starting dry in south, wet in north with snow confined to north of the Central Belt. Models will continue to shift and alter over the next few days but it looks like 95%+ […]
We had a pretty impressive upside down temperature profile over the UK this morning. 15C at Cassley in Northwest Highland (average is 7C) vs -4C at Frittenden, Kent and Bournemouth. Southeast England started the day cold and frosty in clear, calm conditions beneath the high while the Northwest Highlands was positioned on the windier outer […]
While we’ve enjoyed plenty of cold, crisp, bright winter days through much of the month so far, a milder theme is beginning to show, particularly for northern and western areas thanks to high pressure positioned over southern UK and near continent. Winds blowing around the W/N flank of the high is drawing in the milder […]
The current wintry spell has certainly been notable with frequent snow showers carpeting much of Northern Scotland followed by some cold nights and a system which blanketed much of Wales and central England. But it’s nowhere near unusual. Weekend snowstorm did drop over a foot in parts of Wales and a 2-4 inch covering across […]
Many parts of Scotland, England and particularly Northern Ireland and Wales woke to a blanket of snow this morning leading to beautiful scenes but also disruption. Dungannon, Co Tyrone Downpatrick, Co Down Belfast A great call from BBC Weather for where the snow was expected! The overnight snow closed schools in Northern Ireland and Wales today. https://twitter.com/BBCNewsNI/status/939058311990861824 https://twitter.com/DerekTheWeather/status/939062933258231808 Glencoe Those […]
Storm Carolina brought a stormy day across northern Scotland and a blustery day elsewhere. Winds peaked at between 80-90 mph on the low level northern mainland, 112 mph over the Cairngorms. Now that the centre is moving away towards Scandinavia, the arctic door has been opened. The frequent, blustery showers overnight tonight and through tomorrow […]
With an easterly QBO, phase 5 into 6 MJO, La Nina and perturbed polar vortex and reflective high latitude blocking underneath, many things point to a prolonged spell of cooler than average pattern on both sides of the pond. GFS ensemble shows the blocky pattern maintaining. Check out the 500mb height anomaly 5-day means. 2m […]
In anticipation of the incoming Wed/Thu system, the Met Office has named Storm Caroline, the 3rd of the season so far. Caroline is a deepening feature driven by a large thermal gradient in the Atlantic. Here’s Caroline gaining strength out over the Atlantic today. With this system we’ll get a taste of both ‘very mild’ […]
We have quite the temperature rollercoaster coming this week with warmth early to especially mid week follow immediately by bitter cold , wind and snow showers snow to end. A developing low riding the boundary between arctic and subtropical will cross the country later Wednesday into Thursday. Check out the 24-hour 850mb temperature difference between […]
Early season arctic air has driven deep into Europe helping bring an early snowfall to Paris while even southern Spain endured a frost away from the immediate coast. It’s snowing across northern Spain this morning while temps slowly rise over the UK. Check out these stunning winter wonderland images of Paris last night. https://twitter.com/severeweatherEU/status/936405773030182912 https://twitter.com/severeweatherEU/status/936392733593407489 […]
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