United Kingdom & Ireland
It’s a raw and dreary Tuesday under the rain clouds draped across N Ireland, southern Scotland and northern England but north of the front while bright, it’s fresh but to the south increasingly warm and humid. The rain band split across the UK is marks the divide between fresh Atlantic air and warm, humid continental air. While conditions improve Wednesday with much […]
In the past 10 days, Europe has seen extremes on both ends of the thermometer. The heat wave commenced in the western end of the continent last month and is ending on the eastern end. July starts off the scale cool for parts of Algeria, Spain and France while it’s opposite for Greece and Turkey. […]
30 June 2017 Early statistics show June 2017 has been amongst the wettest on record, despite the hot and dry spell of weather that many saw in the middle of the month. Scotland has provisionally experienced its equal-wettest June on record (shared with 1938) with 156mm of rainfall, 75% above its average for the month. […]
June 2017 may go down as one of the warmest from Iberia to UK but it’s ending downright chilly across most of Iberia. Month so far. Blame an unusually far south dip in the jet stream which is driving fresh Atlantic air to sweep Iberia but the jet lifts way up into NE Europe, driving Sahara intensity heat […]
The persistently cool, wet and breezy weather of the past few days is all down to a cold trough of low pressure trapped between two highs. We’re well on the cold side of the jet too. Surface chart for today shows a dismal cold, wet and windy 2nd last day of June… 1pm temps First it was […]
What a difference a week makes. At this time last Wednesday, we watched as temperatures climbed well into the 30s across southern England and the highest June levels for the UK in 41 years. Thanks to heavy North Sea wind driven rain the Southeast is is running up to 20C cooler today compared to this day last week and firmly below normal for the time […]
Last week opened with the UK’s warmest June day in 41 years, this week it’s opening fine, largely dry and even sunny but considerably fresher with change on the way later today. It’s a good 10-12C fresher from today to last Monday! An incoming Atlantic low will be the main player in this week’s weather, becoming trapped between high’s. Today fair’s ok with […]
The last week has seen high temperatures across large parts of England and Wales in what has been the longest continuous hot spell in June since the hot, dry summer of 1976. Temperatures of 30°C or more were recorded somewhere across England and Wales for the last five days, peaking on Wednesday 21 June at […]
The week opened hot with record temperatures across the southern UK but the week ends autumn-like with an unseasonably deep low bringing gales across northern Scotland. Yesterday was windy, check out of the visible satellite showing the wave clouds created by wind and hills/mountain interaction. Despite the much fresher, blustery conditions, it still a fine day in the […]
June is turning out to be a bookend month with cool, wet and windy start resembling early autumn rather than early summer, warm to hot middle and now as we close the month, we’re back in the more autumnal pattern. The most notable pattern shift from May into June was the turn to much wetter conditions […]
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