United Kingdom & Ireland
Information credit: Trevor Harley Top 4 UK Hottest Days 38.7C Cambridge Botanic Garden July 2019 38.5C Faversham, Kent August 2003 37.1C Cheltenham August 1990 36.7C Raunds August 1911 Site of the new UK record at Cambridge Botanic Gardens UK’s hottest day since 1900 1900 35.1 Cambridge 20 July 1901 33.3 Bawtry (South Yorks.), Colly Weston […]
It’s been a strange and erratic month of June across Europe and indeed across much of the hemisphere. Unsurprisingly, the warmer-than-normal theme has continued with pretty much all areas of the continent experiencing an above normal month. While warm overall, it was a cool final week of May and 1st week of June. While the […]
Another year, another heat wave for Europe. This latest wave of heat comes in the midst of a warm first half to 2022 and coinciding with an abnormally warm Atlantic and Mediterranean. 2022 follows part of a cluster of particularly warm ‘summer spells’ which started in 2018. The multi-year La Nina certainly appears to have […]
Welcome to my 12th annual UK, Europe summer forecast. As always, when compiling this forecast for the upcoming June-August period there are multiple factors which I have taken into consideration. They include the past winter pattern, type of spring just observed as well as other factors including current ENSO state, global and regional sea surface temperature […]
For many, May 2022 will go down as a cool, showery and somewhat drab month, disappointing in terms of sun and lack of real heat. For others, a decent month, perhaps a typical one. However… believe it or not and this is based on data for the entire UK, according to Met Office meteorologist Dan […]
Following what’s been a warm, very dry March and April for the UK, Ireland and much of north/central Europe, it’s been a cool and very wet spring for Iberia. That changes this week as a trough deepens over the Atlantic and dives southward towards the Azores while strong high pressure spins over Europe. With Atlantic […]
April 2022 commenced record cold and strikingly similar to April 2021 but unlike last year, a significant mid-month warm up has brought the monthly average now ABOVE average for the UK, nearer average for France while Spain and central Europe remains colder than average. The chill is a direct consequence of the multiple waves of […]
What a difference this Easter week compared to 2 years ago when I last published an Easter forecast! During Easter 2020, the country was in the firm grip of lockdown with little moving on our roads except for emergency services and the movement of essential goods. Folks were barely allowed out the door and what […]
For a second April in a row, record breaking cold has attacked Europe with penetrating frosts and snowfall following record warmth in March. March 2022 temperature anomaly April’s opening 2 days! Opening 5 days! Just 10 days ago, temperatures across the UK, Ireland, N France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany were widely reaching 17-20C, locally 22C […]
March followed February with an above average temperature for the month throughout the UK, France, Low Countries and Scandinavia, slightly below average for Iberia, much of Germany and firmly below for Italy, Balkans and SE. March anomaly The final 5 days of March and first 2 days of April was below normal for the UK […]
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