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Truthfully, I’m holding back on my thoughts for winter 2017-18 as it’s early, there’s so much going on in the tropics and there’s a lot of variables including the high likelihood of a La Nina. A La Nina can bring various winter conditions but I can see how the CFSv2 calls for a ridgy December […]
A new week, same weather pattern with HP building in today providing a drier, less showery Tuesday only to get replaced by another incoming Atlantic system Wednesday. Tuesday night into Wednesday turns increasingly wet and windy, esp N/W Britain with potential S gales through the Irish Sea/North Channel along with high rain amounts for Cumbria, […]
During a recent visit back home to Northern Ireland with the family I managed to visit Katesbridge and the famous weather station which frequently grabs national and international headlines for cold. A beautiful little hamlet, population 135 located in the rolling countryside of Drumlin country, County Down, Few places on the island compete with Katesbridge […]
Today’s been another cool, blustery, showery affair but it settles down this weekend thankfully. https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/908645942705950720 May seem strange to be thinking frost but let’s not forget that we’re in mid September now it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise when we’ve a cool high building in off the Atlantic. The threat of rural frost increases tonight and particularly Saturday night with clear, calm, cool air […]
While some battled heavy rain and the first severe gales of autumn today and many felt the early nip of autumn, you may or may not recall this day last year. TODAY… Deep low crosses UK https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/907904344334446592 https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/907874159836979200 https://twitter.com/BBCWthrWatchers/status/907870413027467266 Winds were stronger and damage greater on the continental side of the North Sea. https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/907966170460033024 Cold […]
Storm Aileen poised to cross UK tonight with 75 mph gusts, Damage possible along Dutch/Belgian coast
Enjoy today’s relative calm as the first storm of the 2017-18 season and earliest in 3 years has been named and poised to sweep across the central UK overnight tonight into Wednesday. A yellow warning is up for heavy, possibly flooding rainfall while an amber warning is up for severe gale-force winds in exposure with gales widespread across central/southern […]
It’s that time of the year when the Met Office and Met Eireann name their list of storms for the 2017-18 season. Interestingly there is a possibility that the first name, Aileen could be named for the deep low expected to sweep across the UK tomorrow evening into Wednesday. https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/905430398926278656 As for today, it’s a case of […]
May and September can often be the UK’s best months for dry, settled and sunny weather and the more recent Septembers (& Mays) have proved just that. However September 2017 has gotten off to a rather changeable note and going by forecast models, there doesn’t appear to be much early autumn sun and warmth through at least mid […]
No change in the overall setup from Friday. Instead of fine sunny September weather, we appear to have stormy September weather on the way later this week and into next. According to the latest run of the GFS the first ‘windy’ low hits Thursday with coastal/high elevation gales generating rough seas. In it’s wake, it […]
We’re ending a rollercoaster temperature week and beginning of meteorological autumn on a cool, crisp note. The first half of the week saw a rising trend in temperature ahead of an approaching Atlantic front with peak heating Wednesday followed by a sharp downward trend in the wake of the front. We peaked at 29C in […]
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