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Yesterday was a downright dismal June day throughout the UK and likely wettest in several months! Wind driven rain fell pretty much all day yesterday suppressing temperatures 2-4C below normal with some places in Scotland having a hard time getting above 10C. Winds were strong enough to blow down trees in Somerset. The chilly air mass, helped […]
Low pressure is well and truly back. The slow movement of the system is making for a thoroughly miserable Tuesday across much of the UK. Low eastward progression is allowing rain totals to mount up which is causing flooding issues. This follows a day in which the same low dumped 100mm or 4 inches of rain […]
You would think a switch has been flicked within our atmosphere above. Rather than persistent high pressure dominating, we’re firmly back in an unsettled, disturbed Atlantic pattern with frequent lows sweeping across our shores bringing spells of wind and rain. GFS ensemble upcoming 5-day mean 500mb height anomaly. A rather soggy 5 days ahead as […]
Less than a month since our first reunion since September and we’re back on the road and heading back to Torridon. It’s 1am Sunday 21 May and it’s my 3rd visit to the Torridon. This time Petr and I are taking on Sgurr Choinnich and Sgurr a Chaorachain. Located in the Achnashellach Forest between Glen Carron and Loch Monar, this […]
Western Europe may be enjoying summer but it’s looking and feeling much more like winter in northwest Russia and Scandinavia lately. The strong western ridge responsible for breaking countless monthly heat records has given way to an unusually cold trough further east, counterbalancing the extreme on the other end. We’ve a very impressive arctic blast for early JUNE in […]
The highly amplified pattern has brought extremes not just with heat but cold too. Check out the 2m temp anomaly over Europe yesterday. Quite the contrast between the Alps and Scandinavia. Back on Monday, the town of Horn set a new May record for Austria with 35C besting the old record of 34.9C set in […]
May 31, 2017 10:27 AM Early statistics show that both May and spring have been warmer and sunnier than average Although there have been a few chilly days and frosty nights in places during the month of May, mean temperatures for the UK across spring as a whole have been above normal by 1.4°C (using […]
A severe thunderstorm generated a downburst of wind through Moscow, Russia on Monday. Winds gusting over 70 mph caused significant damage and killed up to 16 people, mainly from falling trees and airborne debris. It’s said to be the most deadly storm to hit the Russia capital in over 100 years and strongest in 19 years. […]
It was a wild and sleepless night over northern France and southern England as a thunderstorm system the size of Wales developed over France and tracked NNE over Southeast England last night. As thunderstorms erupted in the warm, juicy air over France late yesterday afternoon the cells clustered into a vast thunderstorm complex known as a mesoscale convective system (MCS). The […]
In the past week, July-like heat has been surging northward out of Africa over Western Europe in between an Atlantic low near Ireland and high over Europe. Many monthly records have fallen starting off with Spain and Portugal, then France, then UK, Low Countries and now Scandinavia. Yesterday’s Europe highs The thermometer rose to a brand new May level in Norway Friday with […]
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