Rest of Europe
September 2016 / Destination: Playa Del Ingles, Gran Canaria After the successful and great time in Menorca last September and Holly’s first time on a plane, we choose the Canaries for our 2nd family September holiday. As you would expect in the Canaries in September, the weather was great with highs between 27-30C by day, 20-22C by […]
It’s been a cold November week across Scotland with snow followed by harsh frosts which have led to ice build-up on some rivers. A North Sea low combined with northerly winds brought fresh snowfall followed by high pressure. We kicked things off back on Monday with Scotland and the UK’s coldest November night since 2010. This picture captured today shows a significant ice formation on […]
I was at Celtic Park last night for the Barcelona game and it was certainly one of the colder nights at the football in several years for me. The previous two November visit to watch Barcelona brought near t-shirt warmth. Even at 8 and more so 9.40pm last night, there was a hard frost outside the […]
A strong blocking high is establishing itself over Scotland redirecting weather to the north and south and set to deliver a multiday stretch of silent winter conditions today through the first half of the weekend. With England, Wales, N France on the southern periphery of the high, a stiff to gale-force ENE wind is noticeable while it’s much more […]
Recent winters here on the Europe side of the pole has seen strong Atlantic influence thanks to a strong polar vortex positioned between Greenland and Scandinavia which has driven a strong westerly flow into Western Europe with low pressure firmly anchored near Iceland. Why The Recent Warm, Wet, Stormy Winters And Why This Year Is Very Different This […]
What a difference a week makes in Aberdeenshire. Last Monday saw temperatures climb to a balmy 17C in Aboyne. This Monday morning? Braemar dipped to -12.1C. Our air flow from last Thursday through the past weekend can be traced back to Northern Greenland and Arctic. As this bitter air crosses an 8-12C ocean, moisture is picked up, hence the […]
With the help of snow cover, light wind and a clear, cold atmosphere, Loch Glascarnoch witnessed a Sunday AM minimum of -9.8C. This is the UK’s lowest November reading since the record cold end to November 2010 which marked the beginning of the UK’s coldest December on record. View from Loch Glascarnoch (Between Inverness-Ullapool). In stark contrast […]
With the help of a northerly (arctic origin) showery air flow, several spots over the UK have woken to a fresh covering of snow this morning! Great shot from Martin McKenna of the snow near Coleraine, Antrim last night. Another great shot from Paul Kingston in Harwood, Durham this morning. Where you perhaps didn’t see the snow, you may have […]
It’s been a weird and wacky week of weather. We commenced the week with night lows of 14C and afternoons up to 17C, now it’s icy wind, rain, sleet and snow showers. Unusual? No but tornadoes? Blame a late November strength cold front driving into an unusually warm, humid air mass. Doesn’t take much within the […]
This has been the SSTA profile the past few years. Very warm N Pacific. Very cold central North Atlantic This has been the resulting winter pattern for Europe thanks to the above SSTA profile. But this year with the opposite showing, this is where I think we’re going in 2016-17. A Rough Guide to the Jet Stream: […]
Recent Comments