United Kingdom & Ireland
It has been a really poor past 48 hours for June across many parts of the UK as another Atlantic low sweeps wind, rain and cold across the country. It has felt and even looked more like October rather than mid-June with my high here yesterday topping no higher than 48F (9C). The biting east wind made it feel worse. While much […]
[warning]MORE HEAVY RAIN SWEEPS ACROSS SOUTHERN ENGLAND AND WALES TONIGHT LIKELY BRINGING MORE FLOODING. THIS FRONT STALLS OVER NORTHERN IRELAND, CENTRAL, SOUTHERN SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN ENGLAND WHERE 1-2″ MAY FALL[/warning] After a fairly pleasant Thursday across much of the northern Rep, Northern Ireland and much of the UK, the wind and rain is coming and is already impacting southern […]
When I issued my summer forecast back on the 31 March I stated that if the drought continued, we could see one very warm and dry summer with a significant heat wave sometime in June, July or August with strong correlation between the dry soil and atmosphere. I also stated however that a lot depended upon how the spring […]
It’s been a tough time for folks across the South of England this year with record drought which extended back a good 2 years to now exceptional rainfall and flooding. I guess one could link this to the onset of the El Nino rather than global warming given the flip from drought to deluge across hard hit […]
The europe pattern at the moment consists of a western trough and an eastern ridge with a constant southwesdt flow pumping Saharan air northeast across the central and eastern Med andsoutheast Europe. There will be little change in this setup over next 7 days however while the trough intensifies in the west, the ridge will begin drawing super hot air from off […]
Relentless, heavy rainfall has forced stretches of the M1 and many others A class roads to shut due to flooding today. According to the BBC, one man was rescued as his car became stuck in flood waters in Waterloovile, Hampshire. At the seafront in Littlehampton, West Sussex homes were hard hit with floodwaters 4 ft deep and even as far north as Boroughbidge in North Yorkshire […]
A low positioned along the north coast of France is already feeding heavy rains into Kent and this will continue working north, northwest through the overnight. This area of rain will cover the Southeast and East Anglia through the early hours with the core of heaviest and most persistent rain slowly spreading into the heart of southern […]
This morning, having stood for 2 and a half hours, my wife Karen and I stood on Rye Road in the Barmulloch area of Glasgow and watched the first set of the Red Road flats on Petershill Drive get brought down. During my 2 and a half years working at Asda, Robroyston, these iconic, symbols of […]
Tonight’s ECMWF has an exploding 592-600dc ridge expanding from the Sahara north over the Mediterranean encompassing Greece, the Balkans and Turkey. Even island resorts such as Sicily, Crete, Malta and the Greek Islands look to soar well beyond 100F from Tuesday onwards and I can only imagine what kinda temperatures we may see extend into interior Greece and especially Turkey. […]
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