United Kingdom & Ireland
After a cold and for some, snowy weekend, milder Atlantic air makes a return for Ireland and the UK into the new working week. As a result of milder Atlantic air sweeping in from the west, the core of cold gets pushed into the near continent. Tonight starts cold across Northern Ireland and Scotland under clear sky and […]
The first blast of winter has well and truly arrived with the much anticipated ‘surprise snow’ for some, accompanied by a biting northerly wind which gusted to 71 mph on the Lincolnshire coast, leading to well below freezing wind chills. Sub-freezing wind chills shall continue through Saturday, especially nearer Irish Sea and North Sea coasts. Lighter winds and sunshine inland […]
There is a very distinct north-south contrast in temperature over Europe. In between, very heavy, flooding rains through northern France through Germany. To the north it’s turning considerably colder, to the south much milder. The GFS and ECMWF has been consistent at laying down the snows over many inland parts of the UK, today and through the […]
Well I took my first trip up Cairngorm Mountain yesterday. Leaving the house at 5.30am I drove up the A9 exiting at Aviemore and Coylumbridge and reached the car park at the base of Cairn Gorm around 8.30am. When leaving the car, skies were part cloudy, air temp +3C with even sunshine peeking through but during the climb, […]
Below article was written at 5am and scheduled for release at 10am, unfortunately it failed to release. Apologies for delay! It’s another turbulent week of ups and downs with the next named storm, Barney pushing across the UK today. Heavy rain initially followed by gale to severe gale-force winds. Worst affected areas will be central […]
In the past 6 months, there’s been a lot of linkage between 2009 and 2015 with a very similar long term weather pattern. Following a cool, wet, -NAO/AO summer we enjoyed a tranquil September and October and as forecasted here, we have seen a dramatic turn to wetter during November. In fact the flip and striking similarity […]
How many times have we seen the models show a strong blocking high over Greenland and the North Atlantic 10-15 days out only to not materialise? It seems in the last 2-3 years or really since the record blocking and cold winters of 09-10 and 10-11, there has been one disappointment after the other regarding […]
As expected, higher sections of Scotland’s road network has experienced the first winter conditions of the 2015-16 season with treacherous driving conditions is particularly exposed areas. In the wake of Abigail, a distinctly colder (Greenland origin) air flow has dropped air temperature even at relatively low elevation a good 5-8C off yesterday’s values. Within the heavy […]
Abigail, winter 2015-16’s first named major storm looks set to make it’s closest approach to Scotland overnight tonight with pressure dipping towards 965mb during Friday. Current visible satellite shows the storm gathering strength west of Scotland with cloud hook becoming more distinct. GFS has centre down to 964mb at ooz Friday (overnight tonight) Strongest winds will probably peak between 12-6am […]
The first ‘strong gale centre’ is set to make it’s closest approach to the UK with the centre passing between Scotland and Iceland later tomorrow into Friday. With wind gusts of up to 80-90 mph over the Western, Northern Isles as well as the NW mainland, this system will be the first of the named of winter […]
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