United Kingdom & Ireland
One day it’s warm and muggy, the next it’s warm but fresher. This weekend shall see another Atlantic low of autumn intensity bring gales to Scotland and a surge of summer to London and the Southeast. Ahead of the low, somewhere could top 28C, once the front departs and winds veer NW, we may only […]
We continue with the up and down, highly progressive Atlantic-Europe pattern but there are some positive signs growing in the medium range (6-10 day) of widespread height rises and summer-like warmth returning. Has it arrived you say? Low pressure this weekend brings wind, rain and for SE England, heat and humidity. The first low is immediately followed by another […]
Nice visible satellite presentation of what’s likely our deepest low of the summer thus far. Expect coastal and high elevation gales through today with frequent heavy showers packing hail and thunder. Note the main front to the south pretty much connects Europe with North America, it’s cold and refreshing to the north, warm and muggy to […]
Yesterday’s persistent and at times heavy rain across Wales and England marked the divide between two quite different air masses and during the slowly lengthening overnight hours, that difference was most noticeable. For a fairly dry South of England and Wales, there was more rain which fell yesterday than in all of July, not difficult given […]
In contrast to June, July has been a damp affair across Northern Ireland and Scotland while dry in southern England and Wales. It was especially dry along the south-central Channel coast with barely a millimetre falling on the Isle of Wight. This was in stark contrast to the soggy June here. August opens opposite again with plenty of rain running along a west-east front attached […]
It’s commonly known that cities are hotter than rural areas with concrete and steel retaining heat while vegetation reflects it. The effect is most noticeable at night while hot buildings re release built up heat during the day into the atmosphere at night, rural areas cool the atmosphere. I’ve done little coverage on this important topic and thought in […]
Late July is generally considered the peak of summer with the subtropical ridge strongest and furthest north flooding the majority of the mid latitudes in warmth. At the pole, cold is shrunk and so the jet stream is typically weak and further north. Recent weeks has seen that typically weak jet but it’s position north varies and a lot can be determined […]
The State of the UK Climate report is an annual publication which provides an accessible, authoritative and up-to-date assessment of UK climate trends, variations and extremes based on the latest available climate quality observational datasets. Latest report Download the 2015 report. This should be cited as Kendon, M., McCarthy, M., Jevrejeva, S. and Legg, T. […]
An upper trough spinning in place directly north of Scotland will send not one but two rain bearing lows through the central/southern swath of the British Isles today and tomorrow reinforcing the disappointing summer of 2016 for many. To the south of these lows it’s relatively warm and muggy but cool, breezy and showery to the north. In the […]
Never ending sunshine by Philip Eden Before 1976 came along with its exceptional heatwaves and unprecedented drought, the benchmark summer against which subsequent seasons were compared was that of 1959. With nothing remotely approaching a good summer during the 1960s and early-1970s, those of us growing up at the time wondered whether we would ever […]
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