Seasonal Forecasts
While Blanca tracks NNE across the Midwest over the next few days providing showers and storms over the heartland, this system will act like a heat pump, boosting heights to it’s east and driving the warmest air of the year through the South and East of the country. Upper heights rise to 588dm over the […]
Here’s a selection of photo’s from my wife, Karen and I’s visit to Paris last weekend. As you can see the weather was beautiful with cloud free skies which allowed us to observe a stunning sunset from atop of the Eiffel Tower. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] [/s2If][s2If current_user_cannot(access_s2member_level1)][magicactionbox id=”18716″][/s2If]
Thanks to high pressure drifting west back out into the Atlantic, a plume of warmer and more humid air will make a return to the UK through the second half of this work week. Unfortunately, like recent warm spells, it’s short lived and by this weekend, we’re back in the fresher air. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] The […]
Less than two months after Northern Ireland came within .5C of the all-time monthly minimum for April, Katesbridge, Co Down does it again this morning coming within .5C of the June record. Thanks to the classic setup of clear skies and light winds, temperatures fell below freezing and fell to a minimum of -1.9C. Only thing is […]
May 2015 will go down as not just the wettest month for the Southern Plains but for the entire Lower 48! From NOAA May was wettest month on record for contiguous US Devastating floods end multiyear drought in Southern Plains The May contiguous U.S. average temperature was 60.8°F, 0.6°F above the 20th century average, near […]
Good morning, trust you all had a great weekend. Back to the grind for another working week eh! The good news is there’s little in the way of ‘bad weather’ today through at least Wednesday with a mix of sun and cloud and a few isolated showers, however it will be windy along the coasts, […]
I’m away from computers, laptops and forecast models this weekend but here’s a few interesting charts for you to ponder over till I’m back Monday! Jan-May 500mb height anomalies. Strong positive NAO signal. UK/Ireland was cooled by a colder-than-normal Atlantic, helped by persistent westerly flow but continental Europe was warmer-than-normal thanks to a strong +NAO. As for […]
The past 20 days has seen the eastward progression of the MJO across the Pacific with a ramp up in tropical cyclones initially over the western basin and in the last week, the eastern basin. The abnormal warmth in the east has aided the rapid formation and intensification of both Andres and Blanca. The Gulf will be the place to […]
We’ve reached another weekend and it’s yet another ‘tale of two halves’ with another low heavily influencing Northern Ireland and Scotland bringing strong winds and spells of heavy rain, much drier, brighter and therefore warmer into the bulk of England and Wales. Highs will range from 11C in the rain and wind but 21C in […]
The abnormally warm eastern Pacific waters, while driving a warm West and cold East winter the past 2 years, it’s now responsible for getting the 2015 East Pacific Hurricane Season off to a record start by spawning two major hurricanes already. It’s also been responsible for the mega Southern Plains drought buster and brought a weirdly cool, wet May […]
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