United Kingdom & Ireland
We’re fast approaching the end of August and like June and July, it’s been a month of contrasts across Europe with record warmth in the far east while this could be one of the coolest on record for west-central. Europe 2m temperature anomaly for August to date. Overall, summer 2016’s been a mixed bag across Northern […]
It’s a rather autumnal open to the weekend across Ireland and the UK with gusts south of the low pressure centre widely in the 30-50 mph range and up to 63 mph on the Welsh Irish Sea coast. Wave heights of nearly 20ft have been recorded on the K2 buoy off Ireland. This highly Atlantic driven pattern has two moods and […]
On two separate occasions I set aside a day to drive up to Fort William and climb The Ben, however the weather was poor with frequent low cloud and rain. A waste of time! Then towards the end of last week I saw a break in the weather for this week and Tuesday was free and set aside straight […]
It’s a windy day across Ireland and the UK all courtesy of this beautiful, textbook quality low pressure swirl SW of Ireland. Wind warnings are in place for parts of England and Wales. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Coastal gusts of 50-70 mph, inland 30-50 mph is expected Saturday. The weekend low is slow to clear east and so it shall remain […]
The past few days has been spectacular with cloud free skies and warm sunshine courtesy of high pressure. Today’s not a bad day either with plenty of warm sunshine on offer but an abrupt change arrives through tomorrow. Current temps. The high pressure zone responsible for this fine settled spell peaked in strength yesterday hence the […]
[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Well the high is came delivering warm, sunny weather virtually UK-wide. Temperature wise I was right to back off for Ebgland and Wales but as for Scotland, well the numbers I had from nearly a week ago, I should have left along given Glasgow hit 25C and Kinlochewe made the UK warm spot […]
It’s 3.30am and hitting the road to Fort William to climb Carn Mor Dearg and Ben Nevis. No write-up today but do check out this morning’s video. On two separate occasions lately I set days aside to climb Ben Nevis but the weather didn’t play ball but as for today? Well hopefully it’s not too warm and […]
When I had a look at the latest sea surface temperature anomalies yesterday I got a surprise to see just how much the waters surrounding Scotland in particular had cooled to between 2-4C BELOW NORMAL. At the beginning of the month it was above normal. Even more so when the 2-3, even 4C drop came within […]
Well that brief warm-up I’ve been harping on about for the past week may still be on the table but the real heat looks to remain on the other side of the channel. Several days ago I myself made mention of a potential 34C, not it looks as though we may be lucky to hit 27 or 28C! […]
As we enter the second half of August, I am becoming more and more optimistic of a more settled, high pressure dominated pattern. Up until now we’ve had spells of high pressure but within a low pressure dominated pattern, more so for Scotland and Northern Ireland, less so England and Wales but it looks as though we go the […]
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