United Kingdom & Ireland
As expected even prior to the start, Wimbledon, like the French Open has experienced significant rain delays this year and therefore we have rare ‘middle Sunday’ tennis today. The last time this happened was back in 2004. Middle Sunday tennis has only occurred 4 times in the tournaments 130 year history. Looks like the weather is playing ball for this rare event. Wimbledon looks […]
UCAR Article The summer of 1816 was not like any summer people could remember. Snow fell in New England. Gloomy, cold rains fell throughout Europe. It was cold and stormy and dark – not at all like typical summer weather. Consequently, 1816 became known in Europe and North America as “The Year Without a Summer.” […]
On this day a year ago, the UK endured the hottest July day on record. A year later and some parts of Scotland may struggle to reach 11 or 12C with munro summits holding near freezing with snow in the air. This morning and we’re talking wind chill over high ground across Scotland. What A […]
The rest of this week and through the weekend will be dominated by a brisk, cool westerly air flow crossing Ireland and the UK with frequent showers piling in accompanied with longer spells of rain. There will be some sun but it’s limited. Plenty of rain to pile into particularly Scotland over the next 5 days. GFS […]
The warmth and dryness of May and early June may well be a distant memory but this time 40 years ago Britain was in the midst of the hottest, driest summer on record. Here’s a look back. Article from Daily Mail last July Think we’re having a heatwave? Last week was Arctic compared to the […]
Last July opened with the hottest July day in UK weather history with Heathrow setting a new benchmark of 36.7C surpassing that of Northolt’s 36.5C set back in 2006. Up here in Scotland, Aviemore and Kinloss topped a Med-like 29C. This was the scene from Loch Morlich overlooking the Cairngorms on a hot July 1st last year. Note […]
A new week but nothing new on the weather with a parade of fronts set to cause play issues at Wimbledon. Cool, often wet with spells of wind summarises the week ahead. Yesterday’s highs and lows across Europe. Note the mid 30s by day in east Poland and mid 20s by night on the Greek and Turkish coasts! […]
Exactly 2 weeks after our last trip to Sutherland and summiting my 9-10th munro, Conival and Ben More Assynt, we’re back on the overnight road again. As usual, Petr and I meet at his house and this time we set off at 10.30pm Saturday June 18, 2016 along the M80 with the wild beauty of Torridon in our sights. After […]
The incredible instability created by a clash of air masses looks to ease into next week as fresher air off the Atlantic takes over. FEATURE IMAGE CREDIT: NDTV [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Unfortunately this less unstable air comes with low pressure and though less humid, wetter, windier spells shall be frequent. Like we saw all too often with this […]
A hot, subtropical air mass covers the bulk of Europe beneath a sprawling 1022 surface high with a separation zone between hot, humid air lifting up from Africa and fresher Atlantic air over France, Low Countries and Germany. This morning’s Met Office surface chart shows the fronts draped between NW Spain and Scandinavia and it’s here where […]
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