United Kingdom & Ireland
Along with the first push of Arctic/Siberian air into northeast Europe came the first snows of the season to cities such as Moscow and surrounding region. This snow coverage expands westward into the weekend. All thanks to this air mass… That’s a chilly 5 day mean temp anomaly. Following 5 days sees it reach the UK […]
We’re closely monitoring the progress of Joaquin which remains a hurricane as of now but transition is soon to come as it leaves the warm water. This evening visible satellite loop looks to show a transitioning Joaquin. Latest information. Hurricane JOAQUIN As of 00:00 UTC Oct 07, 2015: Location: 39.6°N 54.9°W Maximum Winds: 70 kt Gusts: 85 […]
Quite the contrast between Southwest and Northeast Europe yesterday and today. While it’s beginning to look and feel a whole lot like winter up into Finland and northwest Russia, it’s anything but over parts of Spain and particularly the Canaries where all-time October heat records were established. Check out the temperature anomaly map for Europe […]
Well I hope you enjoyed that lovely settled spell because we’re back to a more typical wet and windy regime starting today. Rain spreads northwards in two bands today and accompanying this will be strong winds. This system clears and it’s followed by another Tuesday-Wednesday but there is signs this is a short-lived change. High […]
With high pressure weakening across Northern Europe, a Med low began to turn northward into Italy and France and as it did, it unleased astonishing rains along the French Riviera causing devastating flash floods which killed up to 12 people. https://youtu.be/_c-bycWvBwQ Up to 150mm or 6 inches of rain fell within just 2 hours in […]
Here’s a quick glance at the 500mb height and surface temperature anomalies for September 2015 across Europe. Is this a setup which will be mirrored this winter? Note the difference in upper heights and temps from the June-August period with strongest heights/warmest temps across the South. Warming SST’s north of the UK is taking the mean ridge […]
It was another stunning day of cloud free skies. This powerful under ridge with surface pressure near 1040mb is completely supressing the atmosphere’s ability to produce clouds. This was the view from space and notice cloud and sea fog is restricted to the West Coast. UK view. This was my view along the shores of […]
It’s a tail of two halves for Western Europe these days, all thanks to the positioning of high pressure. As stated previous, when you’ve a northerly positioned high, it’s often unsettled underneath and when it’s unsettled across the north like it will be next week, it’s typically more settled underneath. Yesterday infrared satellite view shows […]
UPDATED: Temperatures reached 23.3C today at Braemar. The UK’s highest reading. Also, it was a well below normal September for rainfall across the UK with just 55% of normal. A good forecast for the month put out on Aug 24! We remain beneath the powerful influence of high pressure spanning some 1500-2000 miles and providing near cloudless […]
I would be lying if I said there was no similarity between this year’s pattern and SSTA (sea surface temperature anomaly) to 2009. Like summer 2009, we have endured a cool, wet, -NAO/AO warm season and even the Sep/projected Oct pattern looks similar. An incredible similarity in the 500mb geopotential height field between summer 2009 and 2015. Summer 2009 […]
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