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The current depression (still forming) over the British Isles is delivering gusty winds and bursts of heavy rain across Ireland and the UK is bringing summer-like warmth to Spain’s south and east coasts. Strong southwest winds blowing across Iberia ahead of the cold front is downsloping, compressing and warming on approach the the Med coast, AKA terral winds which has brought temperatures as high as 28C […]

This Easter weekend is by no means a washout but what I would say is plan your outdoor activities carefully. We’re back beneath the jet and the first significant system will slide in this evening setting the stage for a wet and windy Saturday for most with gales widely for a time as the main […]

Our nice prolonged dry spell is drawing to a close as our beloved high continues to deflate. Fronts are creeping into Irish and UK airspace in weak form but this is laying the ground for more significant wind and rain producers starting tomorrow. As the high deflates in the west, so the trough and cold is weakening in […]

For the best part of 10 days, high pressure has been dominating the Northwest weather pattern, supplying us with a sustained dry period which has allowed substantial drying out of our saturated ground. It seems typical that our weather is changing just ahead of the Easter weekend. Quite the thermal contrast across the continent yesterday. […]

The UK and Ireland’s longest dry spell since probably last September continues but you’ll have noticed an increase in cloud cover thanks to our high repositioning and therefore drawing moister air in from the Atlantic. Still, where sun shines (central and southern Scotland today), it’s pleasantly mild at 10-15C but as you well know, under […]

We’re at a seasonal cross roads, a time when the atmosphere wants to hold onto winter in the high latitudes but become summer in the low latitudes. The mid latitudes are in the battle zone between winter and summer. March is a fickle month, a month which can produce low 20s C as far north as Scotland like we […]

UPDATE: While it’s a cold, cloudy 6C this afternoon in Aberdeen and just 4C in places, just 50 miles to the west and with sunny skies it’s an early summer-like 18.6C currently in Braemar. Today mark’s the UK’s warmest of 2016 to date! As you can see in the below visible satellite, there’s a lot […]

The North Sea is at it’s coldest of the year and when you’ve an omega blocking high centred over the Norwegian Sea, it tends to be cold, cloudy and breezy down the East Coast of the UK but opposite in the west. When wind blows off a large body of water this time of year, air temperature […]

Strong, well stacked high pressure from surface to upper atmosphere at this time of year means near perfect visibility and highly contrasting temperature fluctuation and variability. Check out these great images from space yesterday. These clear skies made for great view of the Highlands yesterday. I captured this shot yesterday evening in Fort William. Aonach […]