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HP positioned over the North Sea and LP pushing into Ireland means we’re pulling our air up from Iberia where temps have been sweltering in the record upper 30s. Several places in western France set new monthly records for May yesterday. Brest and Nantes amoung the cities in WNW France which set new monthly record […]
Temperatures were plenty warm yesterday but shall rise to mid-summer levels today, tomorrow and Saturday with England, Wales and even Scotland all challenging the year’s first 30C mark. Southeast England should surpass it Saturday. The reason, very hot air bubbling over Iberia and France lifts north over the UK as high pressure slides east and low pressure approaches from the west. Classic high pressure, summertime visible […]
It was a scorcher over parts of Iberia yesterday. On the Portuguese Atlantic coast, with the aid of easterlies offshore winds, the thermometer soared to 35.1C in Portugal’s second largest city, Porto. It surpassed the city’s previous May record of 34.7C set back in 1965. The city’s all-time record is 40.9C. Meanwhile, the thermometer also soared to a […]
While temperature is running slightly above average, the first half of May has followed in April’s dry footsteps with considerably below normal rainfall. Parts of Scotland during the opening 15 days of this month only measured 5% of normal rain and this comes after Edinburgh’s driest April in 75 years with a mere 3mm or 5% of […]
After a lengthy time apart (due to work and birth of my 2nd daughter), the Irish-Czech duo were back in the hills on Saturday 22 April. Our last climb was Suilven up in Sutherland way back last September. We met in Cumbernauld and took to the road at the once again sleepy hour of 1am for Torridon. Route […]
Posted on 18 May, 2017 by Met Office Press Office The mid-month statistics for May (1-17 May) show the month got off to a dry start, although the heavy rain yesterday brought up rainfall totals in some areas. It has also been a sunny and moderately mild early May for many. The anticyclonic theme that […]
After ‘weeks’ of rainless skies and high pressure dominance, the upper air pattern finally shifted and it was firstly Scotland’s turn to get the soaking on Monday, then northern England and Wales Tuesday followed by southern and eastern England Wednesday. Ahead of the front, warm, moist, subtropical air flowing north, aided by sunshine allowed temperatures to top 30C in Paris yesterday […]
Low pressure currently spinning over the northeast Atlantic (just west of Ireland) and high pressure over France is drawing unusually warm air aboard southwest winds north. Just as the low’s front pushed into Scotland overnight, temps held in the balmy upper teens overnight and only fell to 16C at Achnagart, Highland. Record warm for a May minimum. The warmth […]
Firstly, this was the scene here in central Scotland back on Thursday of last week… The end of a lengthy dry spell in which high pressure dominated. Then the rains arrived and we had a very soggy Saturday over much of the UK… First rains in 3 weeks for some and most in 6 weeks! While the atmospheric tap turned back […]
Thanks to 2/2.5 weeks of dry conditions, UK/Irish soils are driest since 2011. A recent visible satellite view showing a near cloudless Ireland. The impressive streak without rain is coming to an end for most today. A rainy Loughgall this morning. Since April 1, Edinburgh has only received 3mm of rain but Gurteen, Tipperary appears […]
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