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For the past few days and even beyond, the models have suggested next weekend will be very different to this weekend across the UK. The unsettled theme shall continue through at least the first half of the upcoming week but towards next weekend, the jet and unsettled weather looks to finally lift to our north and west allowing […]
I believe the 2007 and 2012 washout summers was down to the combination both the peaking of the warm Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and very warm North Atlantic including waters surrounding the British Isles and the onset of an El Nino. SSTA’s at the beginning of April 2007 and 2012 where exceptionally warm. Record rainfall – April to July […]
It was a very wet night here in Scotland and across England today, however, while this latest system clears east we’ve been eyeing a system which hammered the Eastern US last weekend. It’s spent the last 4-5 days crossing the Atlantic and deepening into an unusually potent July depression. This morning’s visible and infrared. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] The […]
Summers have gotten wetter for the UK thanks to the warm phase of the AMO (Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation) but when this warm phase peaks in a year when El Nino is coming on, expect record rains in the UK. Both 2007 and 2012 saw a very warm AMO and warm North Atlantic as well as an El Nino […]
With warm water stacked north of the UK, colder water extending south and west out into the north-central Atlantic, this SST provide mirrors the projected upper air pattern seen by the models next 7-10 days. A dominant Icelandic trough and strong Azores high extending east across the Med supports warmer than normal southern and eastern Europe, cooler, wetter across Ireland […]
July 2015 opened record hot, this year it’s opposite… Opening 4 days of July 2015 Opening 4 days of July 2016 June 2016 opened warm, sunny and dry following a warm, dry May but the pattern flipped to unsettled around the 10th and has remained that way. The dullest, wettest and coolest was felt across central, eastern and particularly southeastern England […]
While the UK remains disappointed and stuck beneath an unsettled Atlantic flow, the heat is on further south with full blown heat wave conditions being felt over Spain. Yesterday’s satellite imagery revealed near peninsula wide clear sky. Yesterday AM temps started off VERY TOASTY indeed and this usually indicates a very hot day ahead. That was […]
As expected even prior to the start, Wimbledon, like the French Open has experienced significant rain delays this year and therefore we have rare ‘middle Sunday’ tennis today. The last time this happened was back in 2004. Middle Sunday tennis has only occurred 4 times in the tournaments 130 year history. Looks like the weather is playing ball for this rare event. Wimbledon looks […]
UCAR Article The summer of 1816 was not like any summer people could remember. Snow fell in New England. Gloomy, cold rains fell throughout Europe. It was cold and stormy and dark – not at all like typical summer weather. Consequently, 1816 became known in Europe and North America as “The Year Without a Summer.” […]
On this day a year ago, the UK endured the hottest July day on record. A year later and some parts of Scotland may struggle to reach 11 or 12C with munro summits holding near freezing with snow in the air. This morning and we’re talking wind chill over high ground across Scotland. What A […]
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