Rest of Europe
We have late season arctic air draped across Ireland and the UK today, feeling distinctly cool, particularly if exposed to that stiff westerly breeze. This air mass can be traced all the way back to the Canadian Arctic where originally it supported temps of -10 to -30C, thankfully crossing 3,000 miles of Atlantic Ocean and SST’s at […]
Conditions improve through today across Spain but they go downhill over southern France while up here in Scotland, it’s less wet than yesterday with brightness returning later in the day from the west. Yesterday’s highs across Europe. Cool across Scotland and central Spain where heavy rain clouds lingered, positively summer-like further east. This morning’s infrared. Coolest beneath the rain […]
It’s been an unsettled, cool pattern across Iberia in recent days and things will get worse before better as a deep, cold low sweeps in during Monday bringing windy as well as very wet conditions. Local flooding is inevitable for many central and southern parts of Spain. Snow has been significant in the northwest of Spain […]
Expect a cooler west, warmer east pattern through the first 15 days of April but troughiness doesn’t mean wet, expect spells of wet and dry, especially later next week as heights look to rise across the Northern UK and Scandinavia, lower down into Iberia day 6 onwards. Pattern looks very blocking April 10 on which could support […]
From Met Office Provisional figures up until 28 March show that most of England has had a wetter than average March but parts of Scotland have been much drier than average. In this topsy-turvy set up, figures also show that the north of the UK enjoyed warmer than average conditions for the first month of […]
As we enter spring’s 2nd half we firstly look back at March. As we enter April, warmth matures over North Africa as the scorching heat core begins to migrate northward to the Sahara. During winter, the sub-tropical ridge we worship throughout the Med each summer, starts off just above the equator and as the sun angle rises and the incoming solar radiation […]
We have a classic late March/early April temperature rollercoaster. With a still active and progressive upper air flow crossing the Atlantic and Europe and with warmth building over Africa/Med but cold holding strong across Greenland and northern Scandinavia, we have a fight. With lows remaining active from Atlantic into the Western side of Europe, you can […]
Katie may be gone but we remain in a blustery, showery and cool regime today. Cold mid level air on the rear of Katie is allowed to drop into the lower atmosphere within the heavier convective showers. Beautiful night satellite image of Katie’s centre approaching the SW Norwegian coast. The system sure left her mark over southern England. […]
The immediate focus in weather on this Easter Monday is Storm Katie barrelling through the English Channel bringing significant transportation impact to both UK and mainland Europe. Amber warning currently in place from Isle of Wight to Kent. Shield of moderate to heavy rain is pushing north. There’s even some snow over Cheshire this morning as cold air gets […]
In the past week, a powerful cyclone crossed our planet’s most northerly civilisation, Norilsk, located 250 miles north of the arctic circle, 1,800 miles NE of Moscow in north-central Siberia. Storm force winds gusting to 67 mph (strongest in 5 years) blew roofs clean off buildings, snapped traffic lights in two, blew pedestrians off their feet and even spun a […]
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