United Kingdom & Ireland
There’s a heck of a lot of attention on late weekend into next week and rightly so but let’s look quickly at the here and now. The current system centered near Iceland has brought not only spells of heavy rain and gusty winds but exceptionally mild temperatures before daybreak this morning as well as this […]
The Lake District is arguably Britain’s wettest place, particularly when it comes to 24 hour rainfall. Within the last 10 years, two rain gauges within this notoriously soggy region have recorded the biggest 24 hour rainfall on record for the UK. Yesterday saw another deluge but thankfully not to the same extremity as 2009 and 2015. Seathwaite Farm first […]
Ophelia is poised to become the 10th straight Atlantic hurricane of the 2017 season which ties a very long standing record for most consecutive Atlantic named storms to become a hurricane. The other three years of which this has occurred is 1878, 1886 and 1893. This is a NHC track you don’t see everyday. TD Seventeen has […]
An extreme pattern evolved this weekend just as Nate came ashore on the Gulf Coast, the 4th US hurricane landfall of 2017. A 2nd unusually deep, cold trough has dove down the Rockies and brought the first snowfall of the fall to Denver but an equally anomalous downstream ridge means summer lives on. In these extreme cases, you get a […]
The Atlantic parade continues with three lows set to sweep bands of wind and rain across the UK this work week. Most prominent in N/W, least in S/E. However, as the remnants of Nate lifts it’s energy and associated heat up into eastern Canada, the jet stream shall amplify with a deepening trough to the […]
Our pattern has been pretty much unsettled since August and it doesn’t look as though that will change through the rest of October. That also suggests no return to warmth and equally no arrival of winter either. It’s a pattern which one can expect one day of wet and blustery followed by drier, brighter but […]
Great information on former tropical cyclone hits on Western Europe. Wikipedia The effects of tropical cyclones in Europe and their extra-tropical remnants include strong winds, heavy rainfall, and in rare instances, tornadoes. There is only one modern tropical cyclone officially regarded as directly impacting Europe—Hurricane Vince in 2005, which struck southwestern Spain—having made landfall in the European mainland whilst still fully tropical. Hurricane Debbie in 1961 […]
Back in mid August Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest mountain was declared snow free for the first time since 2006 with only 3 patches hanging on for dear life. Mark Mullen's pic of Ben Nevis on Saturday shows a few small snow patches on life support. First time the Ben snow will be free since 2006. […]
Low pressure isn’t just about the wind and rain but tropical warmth lifting unusually far north while arctic drives south behind. Infrared imagery from this morning captures the approaching Atlantic system with recycled energy associated from Maria and Lee. In advance of the depressions cold front, this morning saw Svalbard climb to 9C while on […]
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