United Kingdom & Ireland
Low pressure is well and truly back. The slow movement of the system is making for a thoroughly miserable Tuesday across much of the UK. Low eastward progression is allowing rain totals to mount up which is causing flooding issues. This follows a day in which the same low dumped 100mm or 4 inches of rain […]
You would think a switch has been flicked within our atmosphere above. Rather than persistent high pressure dominating, we’re firmly back in an unsettled, disturbed Atlantic pattern with frequent lows sweeping across our shores bringing spells of wind and rain. GFS ensemble upcoming 5-day mean 500mb height anomaly. A rather soggy 5 days ahead as […]
Less than a month since our first reunion since September and we’re back on the road and heading back to Torridon. It’s 1am Sunday 21 May and it’s my 3rd visit to the Torridon. This time Petr and I are taking on Sgurr Choinnich and Sgurr a Chaorachain. Located in the Achnashellach Forest between Glen Carron and Loch Monar, this […]
Western Europe may be enjoying summer but it’s looking and feeling much more like winter in northwest Russia and Scandinavia lately. The strong western ridge responsible for breaking countless monthly heat records has given way to an unusually cold trough further east, counterbalancing the extreme on the other end. We’ve a very impressive arctic blast for early JUNE in […]
The highly amplified pattern has brought extremes not just with heat but cold too. Check out the 2m temp anomaly over Europe yesterday. Quite the contrast between the Alps and Scandinavia. Back on Monday, the town of Horn set a new May record for Austria with 35C besting the old record of 34.9C set in […]
May 31, 2017 10:27 AM Early statistics show that both May and spring have been warmer and sunnier than average Although there have been a few chilly days and frosty nights in places during the month of May, mean temperatures for the UK across spring as a whole have been above normal by 1.4°C (using […]
It was a wild and sleepless night over northern France and southern England as a thunderstorm system the size of Wales developed over France and tracked NNE over Southeast England last night. As thunderstorms erupted in the warm, juicy air over France late yesterday afternoon the cells clustered into a vast thunderstorm complex known as a mesoscale convective system (MCS). The […]
HP positioned over the North Sea and LP pushing into Ireland means we’re pulling our air up from Iberia where temps have been sweltering in the record upper 30s. Several places in western France set new monthly records for May yesterday. Brest and Nantes amoung the cities in WNW France which set new monthly record […]
Temperatures were plenty warm yesterday but shall rise to mid-summer levels today, tomorrow and Saturday with England, Wales and even Scotland all challenging the year’s first 30C mark. Southeast England should surpass it Saturday. The reason, very hot air bubbling over Iberia and France lifts north over the UK as high pressure slides east and low pressure approaches from the west. Classic high pressure, summertime visible […]
While temperature is running slightly above average, the first half of May has followed in April’s dry footsteps with considerably below normal rainfall. Parts of Scotland during the opening 15 days of this month only measured 5% of normal rain and this comes after Edinburgh’s driest April in 75 years with a mere 3mm or 5% of […]
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