United Kingdom & Ireland
The blocking high remains dominant over Europe which is essentially holding back the gather Atlantic low pressure traffic back with only soft glancing blows through the remainder of this week for the Northwest. Nice visible satellite view of a busy North Atlantic. As the Atlantic pattern sluggishly returns to the UK resumes, ridging regroups at the more traditional […]
It’s been an interesting past weekend of weather with varying wind direction bringing various weather. While the UK has been under the gun of a biting easterly wind which brought snow from Shetland to Kent, SSE winds drove temperatures over 16C widely across Iceland. Meanwhile down in the typically tranquil Canaries, an Atlantic depression with the support […]
All courtesy of the 929mb Atlantic weather bomb a couple of days ago, the freezing line is getting awfully close to the North Pole according to the GFS while the UK is bathed in below freezing wind chills and blustery snow showers. There’s been an unnerving thaw on the Norwegian Arctic Island of Svalbard this week. These comparison […]
A powerful high pressure system is firmly in control of Scandinavian air space and this is providing a spectacular visible satellite view over a snow covered Scandinavia and ice build up on northern shores of the Baltic Sea. Surface heights have stacked up to an impressive 1053mb. Russia origin cold is streaming westward across Europe beneath this large anticyclone. […]
The entire Northern hemispheric pattern has went to the extreme with two distinctive, highly anomalous features or ‘atmospheric wheels’ bringing a weird, wild and wacky weather pattern. Could it be colder in the UK than the North Pole by Friday? Even before the meat of the cold arrives, it’s chilly enough for snow over Scotland today where the MO […]
By Jason Samenow Capital Weather Gang February 6 at 11:51 AM A gigantic, powerhouse winter storm is charging through the North Atlantic and promises to flood the high Arctic with abnormally mild air. Arctic temperatures have blown past previous record highs in recent months, and this surge of (relative) warmth is just the latest in […]
Carried by a super charged 245 mph jet stream, a rapidly deepening depression entered the Bay of Biscay Friday and slammed the central Atlantic Coast of France and Iberia Friday night into Saturday packing severe winds, heavy flooding rain and mountain snow. One of Spain’s hardest hit areas was Galicia. The potent zonal jet and surrounding atmospheric environment helped rapidly deepen […]
Since I’m taking some time off, I thought I would share an interesting read from Stuart Markham at chorleyweather.com on the current situation. By Stuart Markham As you are probably aware from the past weeks, we have issued information regarding a major warming in the polar stratosphere, which may lead to a colder pattern at some point […]
Today is the lull before the storm the first in a conveyor of depressions sweep in off the Atlantic. The Atlantic jet has picked up incredible strength this week. The SOUTHERN UK/NORTHWEST France appears to be in the centre of the barrel but models are still wavering with exact track, hence why there is no names given to the two deepening lows spinning […]
We’re ending January with a stratospheric warming event as temperatures have risen 60C at within the past week at 10mb over the Arctic. This is within SSWE criteria. AO will go negative in response! Not related but it was a cold start to this morning over Highland Scotland with -10C recorded at Braemar but in contrast, it was 20C warmer on the SW coast of England. […]
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