United Kingdom & Ireland
Scotland The biting easterly flow, although less blustery compared to recent days, is still keeping things abnormally cold. Notice how dry the air feels? That’s courtesy of an air flow blowing cold, dry and continental air all the way from Russia. Even the slightest breeze makes it feel bitter out there. Snow showers which have been frequent […]
Decided to take a drive down through Dumfries and Galloway this afternoon to see what the situation was like following the big late week/weekend storm and a large chunk of the snowpack is in fact gone at low elevations. The strong March sun is doing a work on the snowcover that’s for sure. However, where massive drifts […]
The wild winter weather we have endured over recent days will likely go down as some of the most extreme in many a year with one report stating it’s the biggest snowfall in the UK since 1981. While the snowfall eases, the cold most certainly won’t over the next 7 days. Our incredible endgame pattern holds firm till […]
This past 48 hours of truely severe winter weather may go down as the worst to impact the UK in over 30 years with people trapped in homes by towering snow drifts generated by bitter 50-60 mph winds. It was the rare combination of a major 1 foot snowfall combined with brutal gale-force southeast winds across Southwest Scotland and Northwest England which brought […]
Scotland It’s been a rough day right across the country but the worst has been by far across Dumfries and Galloway with the combination of heavy snow and strong, gale-force winds causing many roads to close or become blocked. Snow showers have swept across the country today but thankfully many low lying areas which woke to a covering […]
It’s a WILD day out there with heavy and very disruptive snow falling across many parts of Northern Ireland, central and particularly Southwest Scotland, northern England extending down through the Midlands, all this snow driven in by a bitter, howling southeasterly wind. Every day I travel across Dumfries and Galloway and I must say I am glad I’m not […]
Our wild March here in the UK continues and just when you thought it couldn’t get much worse, an Atlantic storm system will swing an arm of heavy precipitation into our cold air tonight and could produce the biggest ‘disruptive snow event’ for the UK yet. Tonight through Saturday’s event will make a 4th in just 10 […]
Scotland The cold conditions aren’t going anywhere and unfortunately our weather is set to get a whole lot more wintry through tonight and right the way through Saturday. A lot of moisture associated with an Atlantic low will swing into our cold air mass tonight and force heavy snow to break out, initially across the Southwest but as […]
It may be the first day of astronomical spring but it’s anything but spring-like. Amazing how opposite this is compared to last year on both sides of the Atlantic (see yesterday’s post), in fact I am seeing some tweets making mention that the UK’s long standing Central England Temperature or CET which combines the temperature for all of Britain is […]
It was all about the warmth around this time last year as a strong POSITIVE Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation ruled, playing a significant role in pumping unusually warm air up over the UK (as well as the United States too). On March 26, 2012, the incredible 3-day record streak began with Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire soaring to […]
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