Rest of Europe
The UK and West remain influenced by a cool, unsettled WNW air flow with frequent fronts bringing wind and rain while the heat is well and truly on from Balkans, Greece, Turkey up to Russia. Athens is use to hot weather but even for them, 40C is uncommon, particularly in June. On Saturday, Sparta, Greece reached 43C. […]
As promised, here’s a glance at what the models are showing for July. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] FEATURED IMAGE CREDIT: David Haldane @DavidHaldane I must say the CFSv2 and Canadian are going right to my idea with classic Icelandic trough Azores ridge = frequently unsettled across Ireland, Scotland, N England, NW Wales, warmer drier for bulk of England and […]
This week’s mess with widespread and frequent showers and thunderstorms thanks to low pressure directly overhead will fade into the weekend. Showers perhaps linger over eastern parts of the UK through Saturday morning as the low pressure departs. A brief spell of fine and much more settled conditions provide a decent Saturday thanks to the brief visit of high pressure but […]
While it remains cool and unsettled over much of Western and Central Europe, a persistent low spinning over the North of Italy will help draw the first heat wave of summer out of an increasingly scalding Libya across the Med into Greece and Turkey. This weekend will host widespread mid to upper 30s, even some low 40s are possible. Next week sees this hot, […]
Spring and now early summer has been turbulent across much of Europe, opposite of the same time last year and now that our beloved high pressure bubble has burst, the UK joins the rest in this messy start to summer 2016. Flooding downpours, lightning and even funnel clouds have been the main talking point. Low […]
The Atlantic Ocean goes through 20-30 year warm and cold cycles which have significant affect on the climate of Europe. Since 1996, the Atlantic has been it’s a warm mode and therefore summers steadily turned wetter in Western and Northern Europe. The spell from 2007 to 2012 was particularly dismal for Ireland, UK and Scandinavia, likely due to the […]
Many whom have been drawn into a false sense of security with the prolonged spell of warm, sunny weather to end May and begin June will be sorely disappointed at how this pattern has turned and is likely to hold. Low pressure remains dominant through this work week with laden skies across NI and Scotland and […]
2012 and to an extent 2015 is a classic example of how a warm, dry spring does not necessarily signify a warm, dry summer. Record warmth in March and May of 2012 when Scotland witnessed an all-time monthly record high both months was followed by a cold, washout summer and I believe stated from the get go that summer 2016 is […]
An epic trip to bring in my 10th and friend and climbing partner, Petr’s 163rd munro and 17th in the last 30 days. In short, up at 10pm Saturday June 4th, met Petr at his house at 11.15pm and departed Cumbernauld at 11.30pm for the near 5 hour, 239 mile overnight drive to the Northwest Highlands and specifically the beautiful settlement of […]
High pressure brought another warm day to the UK and hot day to Spain with the southern interior, AKA the ‘oven of Spain’ reaching it’s first 40C of the year. Glasgow enjoyed another 21C+ day with 24.1C yesterday. FEATURED IMAGE CREDIT: Sarah Colliver@sarahcolliver [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] A big time change today across NI and Scotland in particular with […]
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