United Kingdom & Ireland
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 […]
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 […]
We’ve got a fascinating weekend of weather ahead with big contrasts now underway between Northwest Scotland and Southeast England. In between, a seemingly innocuous stalled front draped from Cornwall to Northumberland is now lighting up as the thermal gradient over the UK increases. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Hot, humid air lifting out of France and bumping up against […]
We have a strengthening negative NAO pattern developing in which an eastern Canada-Greenland-Scandinavian blocking high joins forces and locks in a deep trough underneath. Because high pressure extends south of Greenland and south of Scandinavia into southern and southwestern Europe, the UK sits beneath the eastern flank of the low in which embedded lows shall rotate around […]
It’s been a fairly decent week overall with plenty of warm sunshine on offer and it’s felt more like it should for the time of year across Northern Ireland and Scotland. In the sunshine yesterday, temperatures reached 24.4C in Northwest Highland Scotland and despite the cloud today, it remains fairly muggy as an Icelandic low draws […]
Well, the medium to long range period is becoming harder to forecast. We’re about to enter a transitional period where summer wanes and autumn begins. Always a challenging time for forecasting. Especially when we’re experiencing such a strong El Nino and we have such a chilly AMO. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Following a spell of relatively settled […]
Over the next 48 hours we will have our weather coming in from both sides. In from the North Sea (today) and from Atlantic (tomorrow) and so today’s sunshine and relative warmth in the West means a cool, steady rain in the East, expect the opposite tomorrow as the eastern front (associated with the Scandinavian blocking high) fades, then allows for an Atlantic front, […]
As expected, the UK is sandwiched between fronts with clear, settled conditions in between. While the Atlantic tries to throw the next low our way, the expanding Scandinavian high with wind and rain along it’s western flank is attempting to push in from the North Sea and will do tonight and tomorrow. This is an […]
It seems every month according to NOAA and NASA are the warmest EVER. May was warmest, June was warmest and now July is warmest. That’s globally of course! With the strong El Nino well underway, let’s face it. Those on the global warming side of the argument need to push the warmth since this is […]
After a prolonged and persistent pattern in which low pressure with frequent spells of cool, wet and at times windy conditions dominated Northwest Europe and high pressure with dry, hot conditions over much of the continent, we appear to have a change in the upper air pattern as we approach autumn 2015’s first month. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Quite often, […]
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