United Kingdom & Ireland
I wish everyone a peaceful, happy, joyful Christmas 2017!
We know a wet and windy system shall sweep across the UK late Christmas Eve/Day but the big question remains, will there be a white Christmas? At this moment in time, we do know SOME PLACES, particularly higher up, have a good shot but how much area and to how low in elevation do we […]
Up until Sunday of last weekend we had a pretty decent spell of winter but as is often the case, it doesn’t last forever and we’re now back in the mild, mucky Atlantic flow. Our cold spell brought some cold nights with Dalwhinnie and Shawbury registering a minimum of -13C and spectacular days such as this […]
Here’s a glance at the latest model output for Christmas Day. Note the good agreement with low coming in across central Scotland, starting dry in south, wet in north with snow confined to north of the Central Belt. Models will continue to shift and alter over the next few days but it looks like 95%+ […]
The below article is courtesy of the Met Office When was the warmest Christmas day? The warmest temperature recorded on Christmas day in the UK is 15.6 °C recorded in Killerton, Devon in 1920. Max temperature (°C) England 15.6 °C at Killerton, Devon in 1920 Northern Ireland 14.8 °C at Belfast Newforge in 2016 Scotland […]
We had a pretty impressive upside down temperature profile over the UK this morning. 15C at Cassley in Northwest Highland (average is 7C) vs -4C at Frittenden, Kent and Bournemouth. Southeast England started the day cold and frosty in clear, calm conditions beneath the high while the Northwest Highlands was positioned on the windier outer […]
While we’ve enjoyed plenty of cold, crisp, bright winter days through much of the month so far, a milder theme is beginning to show, particularly for northern and western areas thanks to high pressure positioned over southern UK and near continent. Winds blowing around the W/N flank of the high is drawing in the milder […]
It’s been a cold first half to December 2017 and coldest since 2010. Here are some beautiful wintry scenes captured in recent days across the UK. https://twitter.com/BBCScotWeather/status/939916402181451777 https://twitter.com/tillyteadance/status/940202184150536192 https://twitter.com/standardnews/status/939974275464822785 https://twitter.com/EdelMairs/status/940545762366296064 Katesbridge, Co Down dipped to -9.6C the day following the snow to make it Northern Ireland’s coldest morning of the winter. https://twitter.com/FionnualaSavage/status/939251642410717184 View of the Shawbury […]
The current wintry spell has certainly been notable with frequent snow showers carpeting much of Northern Scotland followed by some cold nights and a system which blanketed much of Wales and central England. But it’s nowhere near unusual. Weekend snowstorm did drop over a foot in parts of Wales and a 2-4 inch covering across […]
Many parts of Scotland, England and particularly Northern Ireland and Wales woke to a blanket of snow this morning leading to beautiful scenes but also disruption. Dungannon, Co Tyrone Downpatrick, Co Down Belfast A great call from BBC Weather for where the snow was expected! The overnight snow closed schools in Northern Ireland and Wales today. https://twitter.com/BBCNewsNI/status/939058311990861824 https://twitter.com/DerekTheWeather/status/939062933258231808 Glencoe Those […]
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