United Kingdom & Ireland
Well I’m sure many if not most thought the 2-3 weeks of dry pleasant weather we enjoyed in May and much of the first half of June was our summer as the Atlantic returned with unseasonably wet and windy conditions. I have to admit, while next week’s potential ‘hot spell’ is well within the parameters […]
3 weeks of unusually settled weather came to an abrupt this week thanks to the arrival of an unusual summer wind storm. Thanks to an increase in temperature gradient over North America, our sleepy trans Atlantic jet stream awoke and spawned an unusually deep Atlantic low and may have reached it’s peak as it passed […]
After a month of cloudy misty mornings giving way to warm sunny afternoons, North America has decided to give our beloved jet stream the kiss of life. Our upper air setup has turned back to what we’d typically see even at this time of year. Sorry folks! On the whole it’s not looking bad for […]
After months of subpar precip across northern europe, soils have dried out big time thanks to an unusually persistent blocking high over Scandinavia. Would would argue that this is where the heat’s going for the heart of summer. However, we have the first forecast test on it’s way as the pattern is about to flip […]
After a cool and wettish open to May, the majority of the month was dry with places going two weeks with barely a drop. Thanks to heavy thunderstorms and downpours, the only ‘wetter than normal’ portion of the UK was the south-central portion of England. It looks like June could turn out much the same. […]
Below article is from the BBC. 2 June 2018 Last month was the warmest May since records began more than 100 years ago, the Met Office has said. According to provisional figures, May 2018 saw an average daily maximum temperature of 17C (63F). It would beat the previous May record of 16.9C set in 1992. […]
The extreme cold and snow of March is a distant memory as May will go down as the warmest on record for much of Western and Northern Europe. With the core of high pressure centred over Scandinavia, here it’s likely been the warmest and driest May on record for Norway, Sweden and Finland combined. Europe […]
While Scotland has been spoiled by a stunning spell of weather with day after day of warm sunshine, our luck is about to run out as the thunderstorms which have plagued England, Wales and a large swathe of southern Europe are lifting north. The west Highlands has been the place to be over the past […]
With a strong upper level ridge of high pressure is parked over Scotland, we continue to enjoy a coastal California-like May with gloomy low cloud and sea mist morning’s which give way to glorious blue sky and 20s by afternoon. This was the scene in Oban yesterday. Even with the slackest of easterly flows, North […]
Yesterday and the previous few days have seen a marked east to west temperature contrast across Scotland. Brisk easterly winds crossing a cool North Sea meant coastal areas struggled to get much above 12C, made worse by low cloud, mist and fog known as haar. Further west and as the air crossed a warming land, […]
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