Seasonal Forecasts
Thanks to cloudless skies and a stiff downslope ESE wind, Lusa, Isle of Skye was the place to be anywhere in the UK yesterday. The thermometer peaked at 26.7C which made for the warmest recorded temperature on the island in May and it was looking more like a Mediterranean island. As warm as yesterday or […]
BREAKING: 26.1C on the Isle of Skye makes today the warmest for ‘early May’ in 15 years for Scotland and warmest May day on record here! Castlederg, Northern Ireland has edged up to 24C, if it makes it to 25C, this would be the warmest for ‘early May’ since 1990! All four UK nations enjoyed their […]
It’s been pretty hot lately across Alberta and Saskatchewan with a lot of headlines of course coming out of the Fort McMurray area. Sadly this situation remains critical as the fire continues to grow. That heat extended south of the border with Montana reaching the low 9os. Amazingly a system sweeping through the N Rockies early this week […]
Hard to believe we were dealing with snow and January level wind chills barely a week ago. We saw rare (even for winter) sea level snow on the Isles of Coll, Tiree and Iona while subfreezing wind chills shivered the North Sea Coast from Caithness to Kent even during the afternoon hours. Isle of Coll Tiree Iona This was […]
Temps continue to climb further north over the British Isles while it continues to cool further south over Iberia, even Morocco and Algeria. In fact, London could be warmer than many Mediterranean resorts tomorrow while Scotland and Northern Ireland should see the first 20s of the year. What a difference two weeks makes in Paris. Yesterday […]
Those hoping for a BBQ Mothers Day weekend, your in luck across the majority of the South but for the Plains and West? Not so much! It’s looking unsettled across the West with showers or longer spells of rain but stormy in the Central US. A thanks to the latest Pacific storm pushing through the Rockies which will once […]
An intensifying low spreading wind, rain and cooler air into Iberia is helping push the warmest air of the year northward. We enjoyed our first 21C in the SE of England yesterday and today it should warm to 24C. Further north across Northern Ireland and Scotland, we remain in the cooler, showery regime but in the […]
It’s another scorching day over south-central Canada with temps once again exceeding 90F in parts of Saskatchewan while it’s snowing in the Smokey Mountains! Fargo and Minot, North Dakota, even Winnipeg, Manitoba have beaten Dallas, Texas for the first 90 of the year today! Temps as high as 93 in both ND, MN this afternoon. Check out the […]
It was a cold final week of April across Scotland but for the heart of the Cairngorm Range, it was more like mid winter than mid spring with heavy snowfall, well below freezing nights and failure to crack freezing by day along with bitter winds. This day last week I decided to surface early (4.45am) on Thursday April 28, 2016 […]
A lack of late winter snowpack and persistent high pressure has dried out the soils and built the heat early over Western Canada. With a gusty wind thrown in for good measure, the stage was set for what could be one of Canada’s worst wildfires. Here’s the Omega blocking pattern responsible for driving summer warmth north early. Core of heat […]
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