United Kingdom & Ireland
Another weekend and another trip to the mountains! It’s Saturday, July 16, 2016 01.00am, not quite the journey by road we faced with Liatach or Conival, Ben More Assynt but what we lost in road miles we most certainly gained on foot with this trip. I met up with my good friend Petr in Cumbernauld at the unearthly hour […]
If your in the Southeast of England, your summer is improving following a poor June with drier, brighter and warmer likely holding through the next 10 days give or take some shower activity here and there. However northern England and particularly Northern Ireland and Scotland I’m afraid sees little change to end July and begin August. The key […]
[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] High solar, warm ocean and westerly QBO favours wet, windy and often stormy neutral to +NAO winters for Western Europe. Since the intense and persistent cold of late winter 2008, 2009 and 2010, it’s turned warmer and wetter, largely thanks to the rise in solar cycle 24 off the minimum towards maximum. Britain’s coldest winters tend to coincide with […]
While June was dry in the Northwest (UK) and wet in the Southwest (Spain) and the heart of Europe (Germany), it was opposite in July with wet NW, dry SW but still relatively wet in central. 30-day precipitation anomaly Despite the recent heat surge, temps are below normal across Scandinavia, average to slightly below average over the UK and warmer […]
It’s business as usual following the very short lived heat surge with thundery breakdown as the next Atlantic front ploughed into the warm, humid air. Did you notice the much fresher feel and consequential drop in temperature as a result last night? Atlantic air is back and with sunshine, it warms nicely but it’s less humid. The […]
Hot yes, exceptional, certainly not and the widespread storms following the hottest day of the year is fairly typical when you’ve got a cold front bumping into a very warm, juicy air mass. The atmosphere is simply doing what it should be doing. Some of these storms may seem dramatic, especially over Scotland but simply because it’s been several years […]
It’s a balmy start to what could be a record challenging day. This morning’s visible satellite says it all! A beautiful clear sky Ireland and UK wide this morning, with exception of Scotland but this is breaking up. Yesterday saw France and Britain’s warmest day of 2016. We saw 27.3C at Mount Dillon yesterday, marking Ireland’s warmest day […]
Last July we went from record hot on July’s opening day to near record cold later in the month. This year it’s opposite with a lot of cool, even chilly and breezy days at the beginning and pretty much through the first first to a sudden blast of significant summer heat. Saturday and Sunday both saw large […]
For us here in the British Isles and since the departure of high pressure at the close of June’s opening week, our best hope for summer warmth this year has been the northward surge of heat between weather systems. Looks we our window opens Sunday through Tuesday as some significant heat transfers north from Africa up […]
We have a stark N-S UK weather and temperature contrast today and through the weekend thanks to low pressure to the north and high pressure to the south. This morning’s infrared satellite view shows the next system piling rain across Northern Ireland and Scotland but clear and increasingly warm further south. Today sees the eastward progression […]
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