United Kingdom & Ireland
Following a warm, dry April and May, a more classic British summer followed a hot start to June and admittedly, it turned out to be a disappointing forecast. In many respects the 90-day June-August period has been dictated by unusually low pressure west of Ireland by a dominant low over the NE Atlantic and high over Italy and Balkans keeping it […]
Edinburgh may be one of the UK’s most extreme weather locations in the last 5 months. Following it’s driest April to wettest June, Gogarbank located near Edinburgh Airport is now in the midst of it’s coolest August in 24 years. It started with an arid April. https://twitter.com/thus_spake/status/861970877835079680 After 2-3 weeks of no rain, the tap was turned back on and forgotten […]
Today is quieter than recent days thanks to the departure of low pressure. The resbite is brief however as one low pulls out only allowing the remnants of Gert to move into southwestern areas this evening. Both Friday and Saturday saw gusty winds and frequent heavy, thundery showers. https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/899206607611072512 Today is MUCH better. Interestingly […]
Low pressure NW of Scotland continues to bring breezy, showery conditions to northern and western UK today with driest, brightest and warmest in southern and eastern areas. In fact eastern Britain shall enjoy another reasonably warm mid August day with highs of around 24C in London, 22C in parts of eastern Grampian and perhaps along […]
It’s been a month dominated by low pressure and a jet stream positioned to the south of the UK. So, following rain bearing weather fronts, it’s been a largely sunshine and shower regime with winds primarily WNW. Yesterday’s 25C (77F) became the UK’s warmest of August so far. We saw a mixed bag of weather […]
Your well aware of how poor and repetative our weather pattern has become in recent weeks and even in recent days I pointed out the importance of the Tropical Atlantic waking up and it’s role in potentially resetting the mid latitude pattern. Gert has formed east of Florida and shall ride the western flank of […]
It’s been a noticeably disappointing first half to August over Ireland, British Isles and near continent even extending as far south as France and northern Iberia. In stark contrast to a well below normal opening 10 days for UK, N France, it’s been a well above normal open over Italy and the Balkans. August’s 2m […]
As we head into the weekend we catch a break from the wet and windy but I’m afraid it’s once again temporary. Temporary because our rather strong zonal jet stream contains a line of lows queuing up over the Atlantic with the UK in their sights. The current North Atlantic SSTA profile and sharp warm-cool-warm […]
Month’s worth of rain falls on SE England within 36 hours, On this day in 2003 it hit 38.5C in Kent!
For a second day in a row (wayhey!) it was a largely dry, bright and pleasant picture across Scotland and Northern Ireland beneath the influence of high pressure with Glasgow exceeding 20C. In stark contrast, low pressure over France brought a thoroughly miserable Wednesday to southern and eastern England with an August’s worth of rain falling […]
Low pressure over northern France is bringing pretty unsettled day from West Midlands south and east with a band of persistent rain and raw NNW wind blowing off the North Sea. Outwith the immediate rain band it’s showery, thundery downpours you are contending with. Further north and eventually west through the afternoon it’s sunny or mostly sunny. For a second […]
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