United Kingdom & Ireland
Scotland The chilly, breezy, showery theme continues into the weekend with tonight no exception. Expect further heavy, blustery showers in the West extending from Argyll, Lochaber east into Glasgow and some will reach Grangemouth, always drier and clearer the further east you go. Tonight will be cold everywhere with lows widely down to 0C in rural areas, nearer […]
I’ve made mention many times that I don’t think our winter will hit proper till we get into December but I also made mention of the fact that we could turn colder for a time towards late November. I am closely watching the NAO/AO index and while their ‘hinting’ at another return to negative, which would be […]
Scotland The heavy, frequent and blustery showers of affecting the West, North and Central areas today will continue overnight with a fresh to strong SW wind. Always drier and clearer the further east you go. Lows tonight stay above freezing thanks to the wind. 2-6C. More of the same Friday with showers rattling in on a […]
The strong westerly flow looks to continue through the next 10 days at least. As Greenland becomes fiercely cold as you would expect at this time of year with a positive NAO, there will be cold shots for Ireland, the UK and the western mainland of Europe, particularly on the rear of low pressure systems. Ahead […]
Scotland It’s been a rather dull, damp, chilly afternoon over Western and Southern areas while in stark contrast, sunshine has been the theme in the Northeast and East. Those heavy, frequent showers will continue to feed into Western areas tonight but through the overnight the clearing sky should expand west, confining showers mainly towards the West […]
Quick post tonight but wanted to quickly show you the jet pattern and it’s current influence over the UK at the moment. As you can see from the below chart, it’s basically splitting the air mass with night lows of -6C in the Highlands while waves of energy riding the under side of the jet is promoting not […]
Scotland Today has been by far the coldest day since last spring with temperatures struggling to get much above 5 or 6C, only 3C in parts of the Highlands. The showers rattling into Western areas will continue this evening and overnight while the sunnier East turns clear and cold but the breeze making it to the […]
By far the coldest air mass of the season has settled over Iceland in the wake of the low which blasted the UK this past weekend. Beneath clear skies, light winds and over snow covered ground, temperatures bottomed out at -20C at two central Highland locales and tonight, temperatures are once again sinking. Upptyppingar is already shivering […]
I thought I would join up both North America and Europe posts today and take a closer look at some aspects regarding the winter forecast and my long term ideas. When it comes to winter and looking at the big global drivers, there is often a strong teleconnection between North America and Western Europe and with the right setup, there can be […]
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