United Kingdom & Ireland
Well the much anticipated and well earned surge of summer late this week appears to be shorter and less intense than first seen by the models. We saw this in May and it’s happening again in June. Why might that be? WET GROUND and COLD NORTH ATLANTIC. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Just look at how much that cold water is […]
There’s no question, it looked and felt more like late November or early December out there yesterday with a howling, cold wind along with heavy and persistent rain. Thank or blame an unusually deep, sub-980mb low which originated over Greenland days earlier. An abnormally cold Atlantic between Greenland and the UK likely helped maintain some of the low’s […]
Summer is here… However, despite it being June 1 and officially summer now, it won’t look or feel like summer anywhere in the UK or Ireland today as a gale centre whips in potentially disruptive wind and rain later today into Tuesday. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] For a time, a belt of strong WSW winds may cause isolated issues […]
Today marks the final day of May and spring 2015. We end the season on a cool, wet note after a drier, warmer than normal start (March-April). Early stats from the Met Office show that rainfall for May was 131% of normal. The May average was 0.8C below normal. We commence meteorological summer 2015 tomorrow […]
The early June low has been mentioned here for days now and the models continue to show an unusually deep system for the time of year. In fact the latest GFS sends pressure into an autumnal 968mb. A pressure you don’t typically get during the summer months. This may be in part response to abnormally […]
We all know about the series of Atlantic lows that will close May/open June on a very wet, windy and cold note but a significant shift in Europe’s upper air pattern is coming. For details on the weekend and early next week weather, be sure to watch today’s video. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] A fair amount of […]
Under the blanket of heavy rain yesterday, it felt more like March with temps even at 3pm stuck at just 6-8C over many parts of Scotland. You could even see your breath in the cold rain. That shouldn’t be the case at this time of year nor should there be mention of snow and that’s […]
It may seen like a long time coming but summer weather appears to be on the horizon for the UK, Ireland and western Europe but not before a cool, unsettled end to spring and beginning of summer. In fact the latest run of the GFS has thrown up a rather impressive and unusual early June […]
Computer models continue to show the deepening of a low coming off Greenland this weekend that’s expected to present an unseasonably cool, wet and windy open to June. Here’s the morning of June 1 off the latest run of the GFS. Afternoon of June 1 [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] In this morning’s video I show the GFS example of […]
In today’s video I show the 1972 example of similar (not exact by any means) SSTA’s with the horseshoe of cold in the Atlantic vs modestly warm Pacific with an El Nino coming on. Out of the last 30+ years, it appears 1972 is closest but the Pacific is very warm and the El Nino […]
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