United Kingdom & Ireland
The family and I have been in Playa Del Ingles on the southern tip of Gran Canaria since the early hours of Friday. Late arriving due to a 4 hour flight delay. Finally on our way! Well for the last 3 days there’s been nothing but clear blue sky and highs between 26-30C. ‘Cut off upper low’ […]
With twin lows near Iberia and Ireland and a powerful upper level ridge over Europe, a steamy SE air flow means we’re drawing unusually warm air unusually far north by mid-September straight from the tropics. Temperatures will reach exceptional September levels across France into the southern, eastern British Isles. Hot today over France, tomorrow it’s England’s turn where 32C is possible. The record […]
As stated in the past week, we remain in a low pressure dominated pattern but the prevailing track (SSW) and position (generally SW of UK) continues to promote unusually warm, humid continental air in over the UK. Fronts are still bringing wet, windy (even gale force) winds to the western side of the UK but sunshine and low to mid 20s but […]
By: Christopher C. Burt , 7:30 AM GMT on September 07, 2016 Hottest Temperature Ever Measured in September for Europe UPDATE: An intense heat wave has occurred in recent days in the Iberian Peninsula with a site in Spain, Sanlucar La Mayor, measuring 46.4°C (115.5°F) on Monday, September 5th. This (if verified) would be the […]
Published: Sep 7 2016 12:00 AM EDT By Chris Dolce weather.com Story Highlights Intense heat in southwest Spain may have set a new record high for September across Europe. Portugal and Morocco also set new national heat records. Spain saw incredibly hot temperatures early this week that may have rewritten the record books for September […]
Hurricane Newton and the remnants of Hermine off New York are both pumping tropical warmth and energy northward. By doing so, the thermal gradient increases and so does the jet stream in response. As well as that, our warmer, more humid atmosphere south of the jet stream can also warm more than normal and so […]
It’s an understatement to say it’s hot in Spain these days with a powerful upper ridge providing cloudless skies and strong sinking while an air flow blowing off a still scalding Sahara, enhances an already hot air mass. Yesterday morning started off on a balmy note at 29C in Alajar. With blazing sunshine beating down, the southern interior climbed […]
With low pressure approaching from the SW and high pressure building over the continent it means we’ve increasingly humid air drifting in from the Atlantic merging with very warm air lifting from the continent. So, despite a cloudy day for most, it’ll feel increasingly warm and humid into this evening. Setup today through Thursday. A lot of cloud […]
With low pressure crossing the southern British Isles this weekend, a canopy of moderate to heavy rain along with gusty winds will sweep across England and Wales. The worst of the weather will be Saturday while Sunday will be a much better, drier day. As for Northern Ireland and Scotland, expect sun and showers along […]
Well we’ve ended one chapter by saying goodbye to meteorological summer and opened a new chapter in the 2016 weather book with the beginning of meteorological autumn. Here was how summer’s final day turned out for the UK. Autumn has opened beautifully in many places. As has been the case for much of summer’s second half, autumn’s opening day we […]
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