Rest of Europe
The models remain consistent at bringing the return of a -NAO just after the turn of the new year with a major ridge setting up west of Ireland while arctic air pours into Europe from the east. Check out the GFS snow forecast through the next 10 days! As well as favouring colder times, snow chances […]
It was a Christmas weekend to remember across Scotland with not one but two storms spanning from early Christmas Eve to late Boxing Day with low level 80+ mph/high level 120+mph wind gusts each day, 50ft waves out at sea and the wild swings in temperature. Storm Barbara brought storm-force conditions on land but out at sea, her worst was […]
Mark, Karen and Holly would like to wish you all a very Merry and Blessed Christmas 2016.
In the last 24 hours, wind, rain and snow has whipped across the Northern UK and it remains very windy today. Top gusts from Barbara were recorded as follows. Low level: 83 mph on Shetland this morning, 117 mph on Cairngorm. The worst of Barbara was thankfully restricted to the open sea where wave heights of 50.5ft were recorded […]
The focus this Christmas weekend shall be on Storm Barbara which strikes later today into Christmas Eve and another deep depression, Storm Conor which shall hit Christmas Day. Expect snow on the backside of Barbara, mainly on high road routes but mix to low levels is possible… Christmas Day shall open mild AHEAD of the front […]
You’d think old man winter is trying to tease us when you see the exceptional cold that’s driven temps to -58C just east of the Urals while Arctic Scandinavia goes above freezing as Atlantic air floods the continent. Note the contrast between above normal in Scandinavia while well below normal to the east of the Urals. […]
Here’s an interesting read by Stuart Markham on the upcoming Atlantic duo set to strike the UK this Christmas weekend. Always good to get other perspective… MY THOUGHTS YESTERDAY: Atlantic To Deal Double Blow To UK/Ireland Christmas Weekend, 1st Storm Named! By Stuart Markham www.chorleyweather.com The Met Office have named storm Barbara which is expected […]
This morning’s Europe visible satellite view shows the UK separated north-south by two different air masses. The mild air can be seen streaming across southern Ireland, England and Wales with thicker cloud but arctic can be seen crossing Northern Ireland and Scotland with bumpy, broken high level cloud. This flow is unstable and producing heavy convective style rain, […]
Thanks to some of the coldest December air in the last 20 years sweeping down over the U.S and now out into the open Atlantic, the jet stream has become super charged, accelerating beyond 200 mph. This jet shall fuel the rapid deepening of low pressure crossing the Atlantic, particularly nearer Ireland. Today into tonight sees gales cross […]
It remains warm in the west with northern Scotland currently sitting at 12C at Altnaharra but on the other end of the continent, it remains bitter. High elevated and deeply snow covered Euzurum, eastern Turkey dropped to -35C overnight, nearing their December record of -37C. December so far Make the most of the quiet open to this week […]
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