United Kingdom & Ireland
The evidence is clear cut that when soil moisture is low late spring into summer, the atmosphere tends to be drier, often supporting stronger than normal pressure and therefore warmer temperatures. The opposite occurs when soils are wet. Each and every spring, I closely monitor rainfall distribution through particularly March, April and May but also cannot […]
It’s a very repetitive pattern with Atlantic giving way to blocking high pressure. High pressure holds firm over the UK to end the week but change comes this weekend as the Atlantic returns. With it comes another pre-frontal warm surge as winds turn southerly. Again, it’s mainly England/Wales which truly benefits. As the trough and jet digs west of Ireland, […]
Posted on 4 April, 2017 by Met Office Press Office Provisional full-month statistics show that East Anglia and South East & Central Southern England have had their equal mildest March since records began in 1910, and for the UK as a whole it was provisionally the 5th equal warmest March for the same period. East […]
With multiple large lows spinning out in the Atlantic, downstream southerly winds and ridging brought warm, sunny weather to a large swathe of Europe to end March. Thank the stormy NW Atlantic… Temperatures soared to summertime levels on March’s final days. The heat was on over France. This chart better represents May rather than late March. Circles represent […]
Back in March 2012, Scotland enjoyed not only the warmest weather in the UK but it’s warmest March temperatures since records began. That year saw northeast Scotland rise above 21C not once but 3 consecutive days with a peak of 23.6C at Aboyne. March 2012 was also Scotland’s warmest on record and the UK’s 3rd warmest. […]
It’s not all doom and gloom with the advance Atlantic weather moving back into the UK tomorrow on onwards. A predominantly flat or westerly flow within a +AO/NAO setup typically means surges of early summer followed by a reluctance for old man winter to hand in the towel. As fronts gather and take aim at particularly western and […]
What a difference 5 or 6 days in March can make! Last Monday! Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon. Following a truly glorious spring weekend, Monday into Tuesday sees a breakdown as the HP core continues to slide east deflating heights over the UK which allows cloud cover to increase. Check out these stunning visible satellite images captured by NASA […]
This weekend, UK sits beneath a classic spring ridge of high pressure. This entails day after day of much the same weather. Clear skies by night mean rural if not town frosts but those clear skies by day mean lot’s of bright sunshine and warmth. These strong anticyclones which park directly over the UK during late […]
After a rare dry/warm UK winter with only brief spells of arctic cold and a measly seasonal minimum of -10C (UK’s actual coldest was -12.1C but in November) it’s hard to believe we’re about to enter meteorological spring’s 2nd of 3 months. The Dec-Feb period wound up very mild, particularly for Scotland and will go down […]
AS FORECASTED here, snow fell and accumulated causing a difficult Tuesday AM commute across Central Scotland. Also provided stunning winter scenes like this in Penicuik this morning. No big surprise that the disruptive snow swept through the Central Lowlands given the concentration of shower activity was within the West and through the Central Lowlands, blowing in […]
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