United Kingdom & Ireland
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 […]
Following a warm, dry end to winter and start to spring, the later half has turned considerably cooler and wetter across Northwest Europe and this has taken us into summer. The most notable aspect to June 2015 will be the far cooler than normal temperatures. This can be largely be attributed to a much colder than normal North Atlantic. However, with the help of […]
It was a cold Fathers Day over Central Europe. Last 7 days not much better… The water temperature anomaly over the Atlantic and Mediterranean has a lot to say for the type of pattern we’ve had across Europe. Temp anomaly for last 30-days. Things may be about to flip around BIG TIME as we head […]
Tomorrow is not only Father’s Day but our longest day of the year and no it won’t be a scorcher by any means. In fact it may feel more like autumn across parts of Scotland… For the SOUTHERN half of England and Wales dad’s day is looking decent with some sun and bright spells, temps […]
Believe it or not but the summer solstice is a mere two days away. I know many will ask, what summer? The good thing is that the warmest period of the year comes AFTER the solstice despite the fact that nights ‘technically’ shorten again. Just like the coldest period of the year follows the winter […]
More often than you’d think, when tropical heat gets lifted north into the mid-latitudes, a ripple effect is created and quite often, this signals a large-scale pattern shift. Up till now and really since the beginning of 2015, there’s been a fight between the Azores high and Iceland low. The weather has always been that […]
Up till now, we’ve experienced a very mixed weather pattern with fight between the Azores high and Icelandic low. The cold waters of the Atlantic is most certainly suppressing the atmosphere’s ability to heat the UK lower atmosphere and with a mean ridge position to the SW of Ireland, the flow has been northwesterly. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] […]
In just the last 20 or so years, we have experienced some of the UK’s warmest, coolest, driest and wettest summers in recorded history. Here’s a look back at some of the most memorable summers since 1990. Information provided is from the Met Office. Hot spell August 1990 At the beginning of August 1990 there […]
Quick look back at last week’s anomalies across Europe. Cooler and drier than normal across the north but warmer than normal across the south, wetter, stormier from N Iberia into the Alps… This morning’s infrared satellite view which I explain more in the video! Check this out… the cold North Atlantic and therefore colder air […]
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