United Kingdom & Ireland
It’s been a rather fascinating weather pattern in recent weeks. Remember back to the start of June when it was unseasonably cool, wet and windy with winds feeling more like March. We also experienced rare frosts in places with days were the jacket was needed. We ended the very same month complete opposite. Highs 5-10C above, not below […]
Today’s the last of the truly widespread warm days for the UK as the next cluster of thunderstorms spreading northwards from France tonight marks the start of the true breakdown. By the middle to later half of next week, a trough, not ridge should dominate much of Europe with the exceptions of the south. The […]
After Madrid, Spain recorded it’s highest June temperature on record, the historically hot air plume continued it’s journey northward and two days after breaking long-standing records in Spain, it broke records over France and the UK too. Yesterday was no ordinary ‘hot day’. This is a map worth saving for your archives. Highs over particularly […]
BREAKING: Heathrow Airport has recorded a temperature of 36.7C today surpassing the 9 year old record of 36.5C set at Wisley, Surrey. Meanwhile on the other side of the channel it was even hotter with Paris recording it’s hottest day since 1947 and 2nd highest on record with a high of 39.7C according to Meteo France. Amazingly this […]
Well Madrid (Gatafe Airport) managed to top out at 40.0C (104F) Monday afternoon making for the hottest June day in history. While very warm with 30C in London yesterday, it’s already well past that as of 10am. Heathrow is reporting a rather impressive 32.5C already and the July record set in 2006 of 36.5C may be under threat this […]
THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED THROUGHOUT TODAY The heat and humidity builds throughout the UK today and you’ll have noticed the increasingly muggy feel as the rise in water vapour adds to the uncomfortable feel of the air. It’s not the temperature but humidity that makes it unpleasant and even hard to breathe if bad enough. […]
Well it’s looking like a great week of weather for tennis and Wimbledon’s opening week with heat building into the upper 20s/low 30s as early as tomorrow. No change to the temperature forecast I’ve had for several days now. I fully agree with the numbers the BBC have for the Mon-Thu period. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] The […]
There’s no question, this week will be the warmest of the year and possibly in years throughout Western Europe as very hot air continues to build over the Spanish plateau. The influence of the low out over the Atlantic while eventually lift the blow torch conditions over Iberia northward through France and eventually covering the UK by Tuesday/Wednesday. Exactly […]
The first appreciable surge of heat is heading UK bound next week as typically strong upper level high pressure migrates north from Morocco and Algeria into Spain and up over France, eventually reaching all of the UK by mid to later next week. GFS 500mb perspective. See how heights build northwards through next week. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Watch […]
In the last 24 hours, there’s been an interesting shift in the models for next week. For several days, the models took the core of the heat into south-central Europe, however, the latest runs take the heat north further west and this signifies a very different outcome for the UK and Ireland next week. After […]
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