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It’s Saturday 8 July, 2017 and I’m heading for Glen Coe this time. Later start (2.40am dep from Milton of Campsie) and shorter drive (2 hours) but MUCH tougher and challenging climb awaits compared to Ben Hope. This is my greatest challenge yet. With a fearsome reputation, the Aonach Eagach is considered the narrowest ridge on mainland […]
We’re approaching the mid point of meteorological summer 2017 and it’s been largely warm and sunny across South and eastern England extending into France and Iberia where the core of the heat has been. Low pressure positioned near Iceland on the other hand has led to a somewhat traditional ‘mixed summer’ for Northern Ireland and Scotland following a […]
Yesterday was a washout across the southern UK and the first of July. This was good for gardeners but not so good for sun worshippers. Yesterday afternoon’s radar. Nearly 2 inches fell in spots. Dreary old day over London. Covers were on at Wimbledon for the first prolonged period of the tournament so far. After […]
Before touching on today, I just want to throw up the maximum temperatures across the UK from yesterday and check out the contrast between Scarborough and London… As forecast. It’s even warmer and more humid in the South this afternoon. Thanks to low pressure drifting over Kent from the Bay of Biscay, it’s also a stormy July afternoon/evening. A fairly warm air […]
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 […]
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