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Yesterday’s persistent and at times heavy rain across Wales and England marked the divide between two quite different air masses and during the slowly lengthening overnight hours, that difference was most noticeable. For a fairly dry South of England and Wales, there was more rain which fell yesterday than in all of July, not difficult given […]
In contrast to June, July has been a damp affair across Northern Ireland and Scotland while dry in southern England and Wales. It was especially dry along the south-central Channel coast with barely a millimetre falling on the Isle of Wight. This was in stark contrast to the soggy June here. August opens opposite again with plenty of rain running along a west-east front attached […]
It’s commonly known that cities are hotter than rural areas with concrete and steel retaining heat while vegetation reflects it. The effect is most noticeable at night while hot buildings re release built up heat during the day into the atmosphere at night, rural areas cool the atmosphere. I’ve done little coverage on this important topic and thought in […]
Late July is generally considered the peak of summer with the subtropical ridge strongest and furthest north flooding the majority of the mid latitudes in warmth. At the pole, cold is shrunk and so the jet stream is typically weak and further north. Recent weeks has seen that typically weak jet but it’s position north varies and a lot can be determined […]
The State of the UK Climate report is an annual publication which provides an accessible, authoritative and up-to-date assessment of UK climate trends, variations and extremes based on the latest available climate quality observational datasets. Latest report Download the 2015 report. This should be cited as Kendon, M., McCarthy, M., Jevrejeva, S. and Legg, T. […]
An upper trough spinning in place directly north of Scotland will send not one but two rain bearing lows through the central/southern swath of the British Isles today and tomorrow reinforcing the disappointing summer of 2016 for many. To the south of these lows it’s relatively warm and muggy but cool, breezy and showery to the north. In the […]
Never ending sunshine by Philip Eden Before 1976 came along with its exceptional heatwaves and unprecedented drought, the benchmark summer against which subsequent seasons were compared was that of 1959. With nothing remotely approaching a good summer during the 1960s and early-1970s, those of us growing up at the time wondered whether we would ever […]
Another weekend and another trip to the mountains! It’s Saturday, July 16, 2016 01.00am, not quite the journey by road we faced with Liatach or Conival, Ben More Assynt but what we lost in road miles we most certainly gained on foot with this trip. I met up with my good friend Petr in Cumbernauld at the unearthly hour […]
If your in the Southeast of England, your summer is improving following a poor June with drier, brighter and warmer likely holding through the next 10 days give or take some shower activity here and there. However northern England and particularly Northern Ireland and Scotland I’m afraid sees little change to end July and begin August. The key […]
[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] High solar, warm ocean and westerly QBO favours wet, windy and often stormy neutral to +NAO winters for Western Europe. Since the intense and persistent cold of late winter 2008, 2009 and 2010, it’s turned warmer and wetter, largely thanks to the rise in solar cycle 24 off the minimum towards maximum. Britain’s coldest winters tend to coincide with […]
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