Summer 2015
Back on Tuesday it was the 29th anniversary of former Hurricane Charley’s hit on Ireland. Charley will be remembered as one of the worst storms to hit the country in living memory. It not only dropped all-time record amounts of rain causing roads and bridges to wash away but caused damaging winds over hurricane-force. Yes, […]
Too much of a good thing! Drought conditions have continued to worsen throughout the Caribbean this summer but Erika has moved in and all but swamped the island of Dominica as she continues her WNW towards the Bahamas as a 50 mph storm. There’s video of a building collapsing under the power of raging flood waters. Canefield Airport on the […]
Though the unsettled theme continues with low pressure throwing cool, blustery and showery conditions our way today and likely tomorrow, there is light at the end of the tunnel! Another southern track system will push through the English Channel Saturday into Sunday and another low on the north coast of Scotland will keep the breeze […]
After a very slow start to the 2015 season due to colder than normal water, strong easterlies and dusty dry air, conditions are steadily improving and we’re seeing the results. The African wave train is shedding several large waves out into the tropical Atlantic now and we’ve seen the development of Danny, rapidly intensifying into a Cat […]
Our latest low is progressing NE across the British Isles this morning and it’s been a real soaker here in Scotland and indeed across much of the UK. While most areas clear, dry and turn sunny through this afternoon, rain, some of that heavy, lingers well into the PM hours across Southeast and East Anglia. We’ve […]
Danny is off and Erika is on and now as a Tropical Storm heading west towards the Lesser Antilles. This system has environment ‘relatively favourable’ for slow intensification over the next couple of days and so significant impacts look likely for the northern Leeward Islands. As for the United States, this is worth watching as the pattern looks conducive […]
It’s been an interesting past several days of weather across the UK with storms, heat, humidity as well as flooding rains. Canterbury received 61mm (2.4 inches) of rain within a 12 hour period yesterday. That’s over a months worth! According to Nick Miller of the BBC, most of that fell within 1 hour. Check out the skies hanging over London […]
After a disappointing June through August period from Manchester to Dublin to Glasgow to Copenhagen into Scandinavia, our luck may well be about to change for autumn’s opening month. During strong El Nino summers, combined with a colder than normal Atlantic, cooler, wetter conditions tend to rule, the opposite occurs where waters are warmer and the […]
Danny continues to punch through a sea of shear and dry air and therefore it continues to weaken, now a 50 mph tropical storm. Hopefully it can hold together enough to bring some much needed rain to the Caribbean Islands. As for the West Pacific, well we’ve two beasts. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Both heading NNE, recurve? […]
It was an interesting overnight with downpours, gusty wind, hail, thunder and lightning, all associated with a warm front which was propagating westward over Scotland as low pressure formed out over the North Channel. Warm, humid, continental air wrapping around the low’s E/N flank, coupled with strong August sun and a very gust ESE wind […]
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