United Kingdom & Ireland
Well I guess you could say the heat is on but probably just south of the border I’m afraid. Today will be a typically ‘warm June day’ in the Southeast and over northern France where highs widely rise into the low and middle 20s, locally 27C on the English side of the channel, widely 27-29 in […]
An unusually deep Atlantic cyclone spinning west, northwest of Ireland is driving the weather across Western Europe with cool, blustery and showery conditions for Glasgow and Belfast, pleasantly warm for London and Paris but intensely hot for Madrid down to Seville. What you can expect through the rest of this week. Glasgow Costa Del Sol Visible satellite view showing the big Atlantic depression […]
After another thoroughly wet, windy and downright cool day (esp Scotland), today is fairing much better but there’s still plenty of showers following a northward area of rain lifting through Scotland this afternoon. Check out the temperature difference to start yesterday verses this morning. Big difference was the cloud, breeze and rain spreading north this […]
Yesterday was a downright dismal June day throughout the UK and likely wettest in several months! Wind driven rain fell pretty much all day yesterday suppressing temperatures 2-4C below normal with some places in Scotland having a hard time getting above 10C. Winds were strong enough to blow down trees in Somerset. The chilly air mass, helped […]
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 […]
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