United Kingdom & Ireland
It sure felt raw in the easterly breeze as I walked my kids to nursery both at 8am and 1pm today. The current wind direction and pressure pattern is very similar to late February/March but there’s big differences too. The easterly of 35 days ago came straight from Siberia and froze Europe en-route to the […]
We’ve a nagging ESE flow this week with plenty of showers piling into the eastern UK with sun and April showers dominating further west. As we head into late week, the weekend and next week, the modelling shows a building of heights across the N UK which indicates a much more stable setup with mild […]
It’s been a remarkable second half to winter and beginning of spring for Scotland. Following the coldest February since 2010 with Braemar recording it’s coldest daytime maximum in February, both March and April opened extreme with the TWO beast from the easts setting new monthly snow and cold records. Cities including Glasgow experienced their coldest […]
Yesterday was not your typical early April day across Scotland. With daytime temps hovering at 1 to 3C during the mid and late afternoon accompanied by a near daylong snowfall which saw a coating to as much as 6 inches accumulate above 100 metres. Yesterday’s big contrast between a cold Scotland and mild England and […]
Snow and -4 to -8C nights is by no means uncommon in April. There have been many recent April’s including the very recent years of 2015, 2016 and now 2018 which has seen cold weather. It sure was a cold April 2nd yesterday. The below maximums were mostly set during the morning as the air […]
The clocks may have changed and it may be April now but winter refuses to let go. A system travelling northwards into a cold pool of air parked over the UK is producing heavy snow as well as heavy rain this morning and shall through the rest of the day further north. Here’s the latest… […]
There’s no doubt, March 2018 will be firmly entrenched in our minds for years to come with not one but two ‘beast from the easts’ which delivered record snow and cold. However, the mild spells either side of these two sharp cold periods chipped away at the negative anomaly for the month overall and so […]
Cold and moisture can lead to snowfall and this long Easter weekend promises just that. Who gets snow falling and where it lies is two very different things at this time of year. To some’s surprise, snowfall isn’t all that unusual at this time of year but lying snow is. For higher parts of the […]
It’s a rather mixed picture as we head towards the forthcoming Easter weekend. The general setup is such that low pressure keeps things fairly showery and breezy across much of England and Wales but somewhat drier and brighter thanks to higher pressure for Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England. Good Friday Good Friday is pretty […]
With modelling backing off on an intense wave of late season cold, the cold we do have looks to be a typical brand of late season cold, nothing particularly out of the ordinary. With 5,000ft temps at -5 or even -10C, surface temps are +5 to 10C and factoring in a strong, high sun angle […]
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