United Kingdom & Ireland
High Latitude Blocking Looks To Keep USA & Great Britain Cool, Unsettled Through Remainder of August
Thought it would be worthwhile taking a quick look at the 8-14 day outlook courtesy of the Climate Prediction Center. While folks in the US will be asking, Is this coming cool a sign of things to come, folks here in the UK are likely asking, is this warmth and intensifying warmth this weekend also a sign of things […]
I guess the one good thing about this week’s weather is that it’s at least warm, giving us at least a feel of summer. Since last weekend i’ve been closely monitoring the models which continuously show one heck of a hot weekend over Spain and France. So hot that all-time records may be challenged and many of […]
Thought id show you this beautiful satellite image I’ve just grabbed off weatheronline which clearly shows how this well advertised, deepening low is behaving as forecast. This image captures the perfect baroclinic contrast and the work warm and cold air masses do when pulled together. It’s the circulation itself which is drawing down cold air from Iceland while it’s cold front which […]
SOME METEOROLOGY For days now the models have had a storm forming over the Bay of Biscay at the base of a deep trough. A lot of energy spilling into the trough is forcing rapid bundling and development. This tends to force a lot of heat and moisture into the system adding more energy which forces […]
Our weather is seldom extreme here in the UK but when looking at the new models runs coming in, the same scenarios which I saw this morning for particularly this Wednesday through next Monday still stand. Our weather is looking increasingly more and more interesting from Wednesday on. What’s noteworthy about Wednesday is the depth of low which […]
Today marks the start of what will be a very unsettled week though it’s not all doom and gloom despite a series of lows spinning our way from the Bay of Biscay which from particularly Wednesday on, may pack quite a punch with heavy rains and gale-force winds. In between there is sunshine and plenty […]
The above satellite image shows beautifully the ridge of high pressure currently controlling the Western Europe’s airspace. Note what appears to be grey, high level clouds over the Sahara and up into southern and central Spain. This in fact is the intense heat which the satalitte is picking up on and not a cloud is in the […]
While we enjoy summer-like conditions over the next 3-5 days UK-wide, we all know that given the type of summer we’ve had, this ain’t gonna last. I do believe that with the recent ‘more settled’ pattern we’ve had since the warm week leading up to the Olympics, this reflects well with the return to a […]
Since last weekend I have been shooting for a high of between 30-32C in London. I continue to stand by that number. As is frequently the case, the BBC is playing catch up with their numbers as they started the week at around 20-21C and now their at 27C. Still too low but as it […]
Since the week leading up to the start of the Olympic Games, the overall pattern has been a somewhat drier and more settled one with the hot week running up to the Olympic opener marking the change and although there has been cool, dull and damp days since the week of mid to upper 80s in […]
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