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As we enter the second half of August, I am becoming more and more optimistic of a more settled, high pressure dominated pattern. Up until now we’ve had spells of high pressure but within a low pressure dominated pattern, more so for Scotland and Northern Ireland, less so England and Wales but it looks as though we go the […]
It’s yet another wet, windy, chilly day here across central Scotland but as your well aware by now, there is better weather on the way, well could it be any worse? As of this writing we not only have a very distinct NW-SE weather and temperature contrast depending upon what side of the front your on but the Scottish mountains are […]
In Northwest Europe, water continues to plague while in the Southwest it’s fire. Beneath the rain bearing Atlantic jet stream racing over Glasgow at 40,000ft, surface temps only mustered 12-14C but instead of a cool, moist oceanic flow from the west, Gran Canaria basically endured the opposite with east winds blowing scorching hot air straight off the Sahara across Gran Canaria and […]
First and foremost, on this day back in 2003 we set a new UK all-time record high of 38.5C at Faversham, Kent. Scotland also witnessed it’s hottest day with 32.9C at Greycrook. Today is quite different beneath a fresh northwest air flow. Following a new summer minimum of -1C last night at Dalwhinnie, it’s a cool and […]
What a difference a few days can make when winds turn from southerly to northerly, even in the typically sunniest, warmest part of the UK. On the same day Cairngorm Summit recorded a wind gust of 115 mph (Sunday), Cavendish, Suffolk reached 28C making them the UK warm spot. Thanks to a wind shift, this morning’s low dipped […]
A combination of factors including jet stream, pressure and thermal gradient all came together to produce rare UK summer wind speeds yesterday. We had a tremendous sea level pressure gradient anomaly of -3 sigma within the cyclone off Scotland’s north shore and +2/3 sigma over Europe yesterday morning. Visible satellite yesterday morning. Wind events do occur in […]
We have a strong upper ridge over the Canaries extending into Iberia while we have an unusually deep summer low approaching Scotland which has forced two very different warnings on either end of Western Europe. Here in Scotland our weather turns from warm sun this AM to gales and rain this evening/tonight. This morning’s infrared satellite view 500mb height […]
One day it’s warm and muggy, the next it’s warm but fresher. This weekend shall see another Atlantic low of autumn intensity bring gales to Scotland and a surge of summer to London and the Southeast. Ahead of the low, somewhere could top 28C, once the front departs and winds veer NW, we may only […]
We continue with the up and down, highly progressive Atlantic-Europe pattern but there are some positive signs growing in the medium range (6-10 day) of widespread height rises and summer-like warmth returning. Has it arrived you say? Low pressure this weekend brings wind, rain and for SE England, heat and humidity. The first low is immediately followed by another […]
Nice visible satellite presentation of what’s likely our deepest low of the summer thus far. Expect coastal and high elevation gales through today with frequent heavy showers packing hail and thunder. Note the main front to the south pretty much connects Europe with North America, it’s cold and refreshing to the north, warm and muggy to […]
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