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In July I summited Ben Macdui (2nd highest). In August, Ben Nevis (highest). Just two weeks after on August 30, 2016 I’m heading back up the A9 in the dark hours of night aiming to summit Britain’s 3rd, 4th and 5th highest, Braeriach, Cairn Toul and Sgor an Lochain Uaine respectively. With the ascent of Cairngorm on the same day of climbing […]
The large-scale weather pattern continues to crank into autumn gear with strengthening jet and deeper lows in which Ireland and the British Isles are in the firing line. The one factor I would say that isn’t so autumnal just yet is the temperature. The active storm track continues to favour warmer than normal but the […]
A great read! Source http://www.aer.com/science-research/climate-weather/arctic-oscillation September 19, 2016 Special blog on winter retrospective can be found here – http://www.aer.com/winter2016 Dr. Judah Cohen from Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) recently embarked on an experimental process of regular research, review, and analysis of the Arctic Oscillation (AO). This analysis is intended to provide researchers and practitioners real-time insights on one of North America’s and Europe’s […]
It may be a thoroughly miserable start to the weekend over Western Scotland but we remain on the warm side of an increasingly active autumn jet stream. The slow moving cold front attached to the latest Atlantic low has brought a soggy night and start to the weekend across western Scotland, especially the West Highlands and that continues through the […]
Summer is well in our rear view mirror with Meteorological Autumn beginning at the start of September and Astronomical Autumn occurring yesterday. Day and night will be exactly equal as of Sunday the 25th (equilux) meaning equal and from there on, night is longer than day. Wish to know more about our seasons? VIDEO: Mechanism […]
Today marks the autumn equinox when day and night are the same length. Beyond today, night will be longer than day and this becomes noticeable as warm air masses retreat and cold gains ground to the north. With cold building and creeping southward, so the thermal gradient steps up, increasing the jet stream and therefore we […]
As we approach the end of September you’d expect to experience cooler, windier days as the jet strengthens in response to the increased north-south temperature gradient. We are indeed seeing the jet strength increase, especially when tropical cyclones push heat northward while central Greenland gets ever closer to -40C. There’s no question that the pattern is becoming more energised as we […]
Here’s some interesting thoughts on the 2016-17 winter from Stuart Markham of Chorley Weather. Always good to share and learn from others! Be sure to follow Stuart on twitter @_weatherstu Source http://www.chorleyweather.com/uk-winter-forecast-201617-la-nina-now-unlikely/ La Nina the sister of the perhaps more well known phenomenon El Nino, looked likely to develop this Autumn given all the model guidance […]
Recent winters have been somewhat disappointing if you love the classic snowy scenes along with crisp, frosty nights. The winters of 2009-10 and 2010-11 seem like distant memories. It’s safe to say that since those back to back cold winters to open a new decade, we’ve entered a warmer, stormier time once again like we […]
We have an omega blocking pattern developing this week. With low pressure over the Atlantic and south/southeast Europe and high pressure centred over Scandinavia extending SSW, the majority of the British Isles is largely cloud, wind and rain free. The exception being Scotland and Northern Ireland where we’re always closest to the Atlantic lows. The Atlantic jet is […]
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