United Kingdom & Ireland
According to the blog ‘sunshine hours’, Antarctica has set a new all-time record for sea ice extent for a THIRD straight day. The new record stands at 16.47964 million sq km breaking the old record of 240,000 sq km set back in 2007. According to Dr Joe D’Aleo, that’s an area 3 times the size of Australia. Interestingly back […]
We have plenty of warm, humid air around across particularly southern parts of the UK into the near continent but as energy lifts north from the Azores low, expect an increase in thunderstorm development later today into particularly tomorrow with off and on showers extending into the weekend. As for today, the big day for Scotland, it […]
From Met Office The first half of September has been exceptionally dry across much of the UK and temperatures for many areas have also been well above average, according to provisional Met Office statistics. Figures up to 15th September show there has been 6.7 mm of rain across the UK, which is just 7% of […]
I spoke yesterday about ‘summer heat’ returning to Western Europe including the UK but I want to touch on the thunderstorm risk today. While the Azores low helps draw Africa heat our way, it will also push energy our way too and that means increased instability and with heat and added humidity come an increased risk […]
When you look back at past UK and West Europe summer’s with a warmer, drier than normal June-July, you often get a break in August with turn to cooler and wetter but September’s tend to revert back to the pattern that was before. That’s the case this year, strikingly similar to last year with a […]
Bertha took summer away from us back at the end of July but another former hurricane, Christobal brought it back and ever since, well it’s been VERY dry and where sunny, warm but by no means unprecedented. According to a BBC tweet last evening, yesterday marked day 6 where nowhere in the UK recorded more […]
Back at the close of July into the start of August, Ex-Hurricane Bertha brought an end to summer over the UK following the largely warm, dry June-July pattern. Following Bertha’s strong wind and rain, a trough become dominant over the UK producing the coolest August since 1993. Then we saw the arrival of Ex Hurricane Christobal on […]
Jamstec has the warm/wet Sep-Nov period I’ve had since mid summer. Jamstec is going with warm/wet Europe but colder NW UK/Ireland winter (close call?) Note the very dry N Atlantic. Model seeing a Greenland block? [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] The QBO was strong westerly back last winter and I’ve given my reasons why this was the case and brought our […]
The NAO becomes more significant as we head from summer into autumn and obviously winter. Over the past 12 months, the NAO has been predominantly positive and I believe this is strongly connected to the weak solar maximum of sunspot cycle 24. The positive NAO has laid to a warm Europe last summer, winter and even summer this […]
I just cut a video but it’s failed to upload unfortunately. Still in Northern Ireland spending some time with family but shall be home and back to normal posting tomorrow night/Friday. Here’s some pictures I took this morning from Black Gap Farm in Co Down. I’m really keen to get a post up regarding the NAO past/current […]
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