United Kingdom & Ireland
WHAT A STORM! An active Atlantic with strong jet stream, formed an area of low pressure late Saturday into Sunday which rapidly intensified as it clipped southern Ireland and met the English Channel. While it was an atypical wet and windy morning across the southern UK, on the other side of the channel, winds were downright dangerous. […]
We’re in for a pretty unsettled weekend with slow northward moving low pressure providing wet and windy conditions. The reason for the slow NORTHWARD movement extends west to the other side of the pond. An unusual surge of early summer heat and consequential severe thunderstorm outbreak over the USA has created somewhat of an atmospheric ripple. As the atmosphere explodes with the merging of […]
From Met Office Mar 1, 2017 3:46 PM Preliminary statistics show that the 2016/17 winter has been dry and mild compared to the long-term average. Meanwhile, early February statistics show a milder than average month to end the season. February has brought winter to a close with above normal temperatures for all areas of the […]
Bitter hurricane-force winds blowing off the Baffin Island/Davis Straits sea ice and rounding the western and southern coast of Greenland produce amazing ‘cloud streets’ on February 25. Clear skies following record snowfall reveal incredible views of a deeply snow covered Iceland. Note the turquoise waters (algae bloom?) surrounding the coast! Another stunning view as clouds reveal a snow covered Alps back […]
We definitely have a wintry flavour in our weather as we say fair well to meteorological winter 2016-17 with ice, frost and wintry showers, particularly across Northern parts of the UK. Yesterday morning saw the somewhat ‘surprise’ snowfall over the Highlands. Boat of Garten near Aviemore As for this morning it was Southern Scotland’s turn. Newton Stewart, […]
The North Atlantic is a highly turbulent, wild place these days with a huge storm circulation producing widespread hurricane-force winds and seas stacked 40-50ft igh. Hurricane-force winds have been battering the Greenland and Iceland coasts for the last few days. As of this writing, Summit Camp, central Greenland is under whiteout conditions as a once sub-940mb weather bomb passes […]
By Pam Wright Feb 23 2017 12:00 AM EST weather.com Story Highlights Dust from the Sahara Desert was swept up into a low-pressure system over north Africa on Monday before making its way toward Europe. In Spain’s Sierra Nevada, snow falling on ski slopes had a brownish color. The dust will move further east toward […]
Storm Doris, beautiful from space but a headache on the ground. In the words of Anthony Sagliani (Meteorological Operations Manager at Earth Networks), Doris is an absolute classic Shapiro-Keyser cyclone. A true weather bomb as she undergoes rapid cyclogenesis over the UK with an impressive 34mb pressure drop within 24 hours. With a very distinct mild southern and cold […]
After a cold central and southern Europe January, it’s turned considerably milder during February. As you can see from the below January temp anomaly map, the core of coldest was on the Balkan Peninsula where Serbia and Hungary witnessed their coldest Jan in some 50 years, the coldest in 20 years for France. For the […]
After a very mild, spring-like 18.3C at Kew Gardens and Northolt Monday, the increasingly turbulent Atlantic is ready to pounce and this process is already showing this afternoon. As winds increase, so the rains sweep in and the temperature decreases through today. Following the band of rain associated with the cold front, blustery showers follow turning increasingly to snow over high ground. The trans-Atlantic […]
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