United Kingdom & Ireland
Scotland After a dull, damp but fairly mild day for much of Scotland, it turns chilly tonight as skies clear out. Lows should dip close to freezing in the major towns and cities, a little below in outlying areas with frost and ice a potential issue for the Wednesday AM commute. Wednesday looks much brighter but despite […]
As ridging builds north up the US East Coast and ridging also holds over the UK, the focus of coldest air over the hemisphere will be centred over Greenland today through Wednesday but that changes dramatically by the end of this week. This morning is the coldest in a good couple of weeks over Greenland with -55C or -67F recorded at Summit Camp […]
Scotland It’s a largely dry but cloudy and mild afternoon by early December standards. Some light, patchy rain in the Northwest will begin to nudge south through this evening and overnight. Lows are mild at 4-6C. Tuesday will be a wetter, breezier day as a weak front sinks slowly south over Scotland but it turns drier, brighter and […]
In today’s post I want to take another look at the coming arctic blast late week and through next weekend for Ireland, UK and pretty much ALL of Europe. From looking at the last 4 to 6 days of modelling, I expect the upcoming cold spell to last 3 to 5 days starting later Thursday with a chance of snow as a […]
While a lot of focus is on the snow across south-central and southeast Europe this week and next week’s arctic cold but let’s not overlook the continued storminess across the central Mediterranean. It seems for days now, Italy and much of south-central Europe has been plagued by cold and stormy weather with choppy seas, gales, flooding rains and of course snowfall. The trouble […]
Although the latest run (12z) GFS has retreated from late next week’s arctic blast, the ECMWF remains firm in bringing down the strongest shot of cold yet into Ireland, the UK and western Europe. The next 5 days or so looks rather quiet with a flattening of the upper pattern beyond this weekend where we’ll […]
We have some very mild air in place at the moment across the UK with temperatures once again up into double figures in the North and yes, the South joined in on this milder air today but that mild air get pushed somewhat south of Scotland tomorrow. After a colder night tonight with frost in places, we […]
Warmer air flowing in from the Atlantic has been chipping away at the cold, dense air over Scotland today and through tonight and tomorrow the warmer air takes charge across all of the UK atmosphere with temperatures back up to 9-13C. While warmth pushes into Ireland and the UK, arctic air will gain more ground over Europe with […]
For us here in western Europe, we’re entering a classic benign pattern with a calm end to the cold spell as ridging warms the mid and upper layers. The warming arrives across the northern Republic, N Ireland and Scotland initially with damp weather while still beneath the cold air, England remains cold again tomorrow but […]
While we’ve received a taste of winter this week, I believe this is merely a sign of something much greater for later down the road. I want to draw your attention to what’s going on across the other side of the Atlantic with major snow and cold settling into much of the US. We must pay attention […]
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