United Kingdom & Ireland
The month of April has turned out to be somewhat of a tail of two halves with warm start but cold end with this week presenting one strong final blast of winter. However, the long term theme has been dry and this plays a bigger role through May because if May was to turn out […]
Cold wave 1 of 2 continues to pile drive deep into Southeast Europe with unusually heavy, even crippling snows affecting the Balkans, Romania, Ukraine. By the time we enter next week, it’s Northwest Europe’s turn with snow in the Northern UK forecast. Here are some images from recent days on the other side of the continent. Częstochowa, Poland […]
According to the mid-month stats released by the Met Office, the UK as a whole is sitting at just 26% of the normal April rainfall. Dry yes but what will keep this likely out of the top 3-5 spot is the near average rain up in Northwest Scotland and the rain in the forecast but the outlook remains […]
As we look out through the next 7-10 days or the remainder of April, it looks like the high to the west, low to the east setup sticks around with additional waves of late season arctic air dropping south. The current cold shot was a glancing blow for UK but over Germany and Poland it’s […]
While it’s looking and feeling more and more like summer across Southern Spain/Portugal down to the Canaries, arctic air is drilling south one last time and we’ve some unusually cool nights in store. Temps touched 35C in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria this afternoon. This was the scene from Bajamar, Tenerife this afternoon. Meanwhile, a […]
Well just look at that, the UK’s warmest, coldest, wettest and sunniest Easter Day has all been within the last 6 years! Breakdown on our extremes from the Met Office Easter weather facts Easter can fall in a period of 35 days because it is calculated as the first Sunday after the first full moon […]
It’s way too early to put away the jackets and ice scrapers just yet! While remaining stuck beneath a persistent showery, northwesterly air flow, things turn more wintry over highland Scotland and particularly mainland Europe early next week with widespread frosts returning. On the face of it, air temps these days aren’t all that cold at between 7-15C UK-wide but factor in […]
UPDATED: FRIDAY EVE On the grand scheme of things, we have a fairly run of the mill, quiet Easter weekend on the way with no significant cold, snow, heat or storms to speak of. So for the details…. the UK and Ireland is currently sandwiched between high pressure to the southwest and low pressure to the northeast […]
It seems to happen just about every spring… when you can’t get the pattern to fit during the wintertime, it happens during the spring just when your ready for warmth. The NAO has been positive in recent weeks. This would technically lead to a wetter UK but it hasn’t. The setup has looked a lot […]
It was more like late winter over Northwest Scotland while mid summer in Southeast England yesterday. Today’s it’s much cooler in the Southeast by up to 10C. GFS surface/precip and 2m temp anomaly chart for 18z yesterday. The lift in the South and decline in the North was down to a SE progressing cold front. Produced quite the […]
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