United Kingdom & Ireland
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 […]
It’s yet another wet, windy, chilly day here across central Scotland but as your well aware by now, there is better weather on the way, well could it be any worse? As of this writing we not only have a very distinct NW-SE weather and temperature contrast depending upon what side of the front your on but the Scottish mountains are […]
Thought I would touch on just how steamy the air is from west Kansas to Delaware and from Louisiana to the UP of Michigan currently. Chicago Just Got Its First Tornado in Almost 10 Years ARTICLE FROM WEATHER.COM A weak tornado called a landspout was seen over Chicago on Tuesday. This is the first tornado […]
In Northwest Europe, water continues to plague while in the Southwest it’s fire. Beneath the rain bearing Atlantic jet stream racing over Glasgow at 40,000ft, surface temps only mustered 12-14C but instead of a cool, moist oceanic flow from the west, Gran Canaria basically endured the opposite with east winds blowing scorching hot air straight off the Sahara across Gran Canaria and […]
First and foremost, on this day back in 2003 we set a new UK all-time record high of 38.5C at Faversham, Kent. Scotland also witnessed it’s hottest day with 32.9C at Greycrook. Today is quite different beneath a fresh northwest air flow. Following a new summer minimum of -1C last night at Dalwhinnie, it’s a cool and […]
What a difference a few days can make when winds turn from southerly to northerly, even in the typically sunniest, warmest part of the UK. On the same day Cairngorm Summit recorded a wind gust of 115 mph (Sunday), Cavendish, Suffolk reached 28C making them the UK warm spot. Thanks to a wind shift, this morning’s low dipped […]
A combination of factors including jet stream, pressure and thermal gradient all came together to produce rare UK summer wind speeds yesterday. We had a tremendous sea level pressure gradient anomaly of -3 sigma within the cyclone off Scotland’s north shore and +2/3 sigma over Europe yesterday morning. Visible satellite yesterday morning. Wind events do occur in […]
We have a strong upper ridge over the Canaries extending into Iberia while we have an unusually deep summer low approaching Scotland which has forced two very different warnings on either end of Western Europe. Here in Scotland our weather turns from warm sun this AM to gales and rain this evening/tonight. This morning’s infrared satellite view 500mb height […]
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