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As expected, winds turned northeasterly last night and so cold winds blowing across a relatively warm North Sea Coast brought pockets of heavy, wind driven snowfall from Aberdeenshire down to Norfolk even the London area. Away from the east coast it’s was sunny but cool, especially in the breeze. These showers delivered some fine snow […]
I received a phone call this morning to say Aberdeen city centre was gridlock. If you took the GFS literally, a large swathe of Central Scotland could be severely disrupted next Thursday. I’m most certainly not saying it can’t happen. This pattern certainly could deliver but what the GFS is printing out would be a […]
The northerly continues to chill the UK but it’s nothing unusual for the time of year in all honesty. Today is cool, especially in the breeze but Thursday looks coldest with UK-wide temperatures in the 2-4C range following a widespread frost to start the day. -6 or -7C possible in shelter tonight. After what will […]
While Summit Station, Greenland has warmed 41C in 8 days from -55C to a current -14C, the west coast of Greenland enjoyed a balmy 12C, that’s 12 ABOVE freezing at Kangerlussuaq. The average maximum at this time of year here is -7C! The surge is warmth is all thanks to the strong upper ridge that’s replacing high octane […]
Steep 5-7 day rises in temperature over Greenland typically heralds a developing -NAO and that’s exactly what we’re seeing now which promises a chilly week dominated by northerly winds over the UK. Temps have went from -55 to -22 and it’s likely to warm further in the next few days. The reason for warming is […]
It’s been a cool weekend featuring disruptive wintry showers in north and west and widespread frost. Looking ahead at next week, it appears we firmly hold onto the cool theme once a system sweeps through tonight and tomorrow. In the wake of the low, heights rise to the west of the UK while a meso-vortex […]
We were graced by plentiful wintry showers, snowy scenes, bracing NW wind and temperatures which barely cracked 2-4C today. All thanks to a cold NW flow with origins extending all the way to Greenland. This was the scene on the M9 near Stirling around lunchtime. Near Dalwhinnie at around 2pm where the temperature was 0C. […]
September wound up near normal temperature-wise but wetter than normal, October was warmer but drier than normal and November looks as though it shall wind up cooler than normal. The chill to end November shall almost certainly make November 2017 a below normal month for the UK but it’s no November 2016! When the three […]
It may be mild and rather soggy for the bulk of England, Wales even Northern Ireland but cold air hangs on across Scotland and because of that, snow is falling above 1,500ft. Moisture has been plentiful, lifting up from the sub-tropical Atlantic along a frontal boundary attached to low pressure W of Scotland. Heavy, persistent […]
With the continuation of a fluid Atlantic pattern, our temperature rollercoaster also continues. After a chilly weekend, we started this week still cool in Scotland and Northern Ireland but downright balmy for SW England and Wales where we saw 17C yesterday. This evening the mild is up over Northern Ireland and southern/central Scotland. Tonight won’t […]
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