United Kingdom & Ireland
The pattern is poised to become more active late week for Western Europe with the Atlantic becoming much more turbulent once again. With the high over Europe shifting a little further east, so the door is open for frequent spells of wet and windy weather. Both NAO and AO support the return of an active Atlantic-Europe pattern through the […]
Scotland It’s been a mild day once again with some decent spells of afternoon sun but skies are thickening as a warm front pushes in. That front brings patchy rain across the country tonight. Staying windy along the West Coast and remaining mild for all, lows tonight 6-9C. Wednesday is looking much the same as today with […]
While high pressure dominates the UK and near continent this week with a stiff push of mild sub-tropical air, it appears the models shift towards more unsettled next week with some pretty intense lows showing up on the models. It’s still pretty far out yet in terms of accurately predicting intensity but when glancing at both […]
Scotland It’s a mild pattern currently across Scotland with a moist southwest air flow which is bringing a lot of thick cloud and outbreaks of rain. While mostly dry this afternoon, it turns wet again overnight as the next pulse pushes in from the SW. Lows tonight stay mild at 6-9C. Tuesday remains largely cloudy, breezy with […]
The cold air will continue to shift into eastern Europe this week as ridging builds into the west from the Atlantic. Snow and cold sinks deeper into southeastern parts tomorrow through Wednesday as the same storm which hammered the Northern UK spins over Russia to the NE of Moscow. That low will bring further snow to St Petersburg down into Moscow and Kiev and the stinging NNW flow […]
Following the destructive power of yesterday’s storm which not only brought hurricane-force winds, heavy rain, flooding, sleet and snow to the UK and western Europe but it also produced the most significant North Sea tidal storm surge for England since 1953 according to the Environment Agency. Parts of Europe was also hit very hard by the hurricane-like surge […]
Scotland It’s turning increasingly cloudy with an area of rain, sleet and snow pushing into Western Scotland just now. With the cold air in place, expect to see snow for a time even to low levels before milder air pushes in and yes the temperature will rise through the overnight. Clearer and so colder in […]
As forecast, the much anticipated, rapidly intensifying storm which forecasters have been closely watching for days struck northern Britain early this morning. The storm which formed rapidly over the northeast Atlantic to the south of Iceland and close to Scotland was fuelled and energised by a large thermal gradient and supported from above by a mighty 160kt+ jet stream which a strong low […]
Scotland WARNING: POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING GUSTS OF WIND THURSDAY WITH 80 MPH GUSTS POSSIBLE THROUGH THE CENTRAL LOWLANDS This afternoon’s bright but brisk appearance is the calm before the storm and the storm itself arrives overnight tonight, making it’s presence felt most probably around mid morning Thursday. Tonight will see rain push in from the Atlantic with westerly […]
A rather innocuous ‘dent’ embedded within a brisk west upper flow is soon to take centre stage on our weather maps here in the UK and Western Europe over the next 72 hours. This mere dent is soon to become a major Atlantic depression with pressure expected to plunge some 20 to 40mb over a 12 to 24 hour period […]
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