United Kingdom & Ireland
The weather may be relatively unexciting here in Western Europe these days but it’s a very different story in the East. In the last 48 hours, a major snowstorm has all but crippled the Murmansk area of far NW Russia as mild, moist Atlantic air has crossed Germany, Poland and bumped up against the wall of […]
Given the quiet nature of this December, I thought it would be good to look back at the same period a year ago and how very different our weather was… ARTICLE FROM THE MET OFFICE Heavy rainfall from Friday 4 to Sunday 6 December led to widespread flooding in Cumbria and across other parts of […]
From October to early December, cold has favoured Eurasia while it left North America out. From particularly November, a steep temperature gradient over Asia led to a stronger than normal Pacific jet and this in turn deepened the Aleutian trough which drove warm oceanic air across North America. However, a shift in the 50mb stratospheric temperature profile over the last 10 […]
Atlantic Low/Europe High Imports Sub-Tropical Air In Over UK, Aviemore 21C Warmer Than 24 Hours Ago!
While the bulk of Europe wakens to another cold, frosty start to Tuesday, the UK has woken to spring-like warmth! It’s currently -30C in Vesljana, Russia while Eglinton, Northern Ireland is at 16C! As sub-tropical air lifts north, so arctic air comes down on the other side! What a difference 24 hours makes here in Scotland […]
Every winter really since 2010 we’ve gone and continue to go through an emotional rollercoaster in the hope of winter here in the UK. Up until now, the polar vortex has been weak and fluid with PV splits positioning favourably for Arctic air delivery into Europe and even the UK. This has in turn slowed the mean trans Atlantic westerly flow between […]
It was a frigid open to the weekend across northern Scandinavia with Finland dropping to -34 while on the Sweden/Norway border it dipped to -35C beneath clear skies. Sunday AM in northern Finland. However, high pressure Saturday was replaced by low pressure Sunday bringing a rise in temperature but at the cost of heavy snowfall […]
Cooler, drier air returns to the UK over the next few days as our flow comes in from a cold continent. This will result in brighter cooler days along with frosty nights. While we may start the week fine, dry and cool, significant change arrives mid week as warm oceanic air floods the west but forces further arctic/siberia […]
With blocking high pressure remaining over the UK and lows spinning over the eastern continent, arctic wind and snowfall has drilled all the way into Czech Republic, Balkans, Greece and Turkey. Here’s the current upper anomaly pattern. Kind of speaks for itself doesn’t it. Surface Beskydy, Czech Republic Dec 1. Brzozow, Poland Dec 2. Nymfaio, Greece […]
We say goodbye to November and Autumn and welcome in December and Meteorological Winter 2016-17. November 2016 UK extremes. Winter opened rather balmy across the Northern UK, rather cold across the far South/Southwest. Today marks the start of the Northern Hemisphere’s coldest 90 days of the year and we remain in a high pressure dominated pattern over the UK and […]
UK Winter Weather Forecast 2016/17 November 29, 2016 Stuart Markham Previous winters since 2012/13 have tended to be mild and somewhat unsettled as the Atlantic flow has been the dominant force during these winters. Certain variables where noticeably going to be a factor in those winters, take last year for example we had a very […]
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