United Kingdom & Ireland
It’s a mild day for February out there with a mixture of sun, cloud and outbreaks of rain. The key component to the unusual warmth in which several recording sites are reading 17C at this hour is courtesy of strong and gusty west wind. While many are in the 10-13C range (still very mild), it’s areas to the lee or […]
I see the papers are at it again with their extreme hype of shear nonsense. The Sun/Star/Daily Record are saying tomorrow (Monday) will be the UK’s ‘hottest February day in 160 years’. Hum, firstly our official records only date back to 1910 and 18C would NOT be a UK record either. If my maths serves […]
When looking back through the more recent years (back to 2000), I think this winter was closest to 2011-12 with blocking high pressure predominantly over the NE Atlantic with extension into the UK and Scandinavia while cold air frequently swept underneath bringing a colder than normal January to France and Spain as well as SE England. Like […]
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 […]
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