United Kingdom & Ireland
Low pressure within a warm, very juicy air flow has been driving flooding thunderstorms over Northern France, Belgium, Netherlands and the Southeast UK overnight into this morning. More of the same through late today and tonight as further pulses of energy stream in from SW. Impressive shelf cloud over Rotterdam this AM. Suspected tornado damage from […]
Looks like June will wind up warmer than normal across Ireland and the British Isles, a lot of this down to the very warm, dry open but as forecasted back on May 22, it turned more unsettled as the Atlantic flow returned. Thanks to a persistent NE flow around high pressure north of the UK, the first […]
While temperatures continue to soar into the upper 30s and low 40s across Greece and Turkey northward, fronts continue to spread across Ireland and the UK but there’s plenty of dry, comfortable weather in between. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] There’s a system which develops late week and lifts up through the English Channel. This will draw increasingly […]
The UK and West remain influenced by a cool, unsettled WNW air flow with frequent fronts bringing wind and rain while the heat is well and truly on from Balkans, Greece, Turkey up to Russia. Athens is use to hot weather but even for them, 40C is uncommon, particularly in June. On Saturday, Sparta, Greece reached 43C. […]
As promised, here’s a glance at what the models are showing for July. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] FEATURED IMAGE CREDIT: David Haldane @DavidHaldane I must say the CFSv2 and Canadian are going right to my idea with classic Icelandic trough Azores ridge = frequently unsettled across Ireland, Scotland, N England, NW Wales, warmer drier for bulk of England and […]
This week’s mess with widespread and frequent showers and thunderstorms thanks to low pressure directly overhead will fade into the weekend. Showers perhaps linger over eastern parts of the UK through Saturday morning as the low pressure departs. A brief spell of fine and much more settled conditions provide a decent Saturday thanks to the brief visit of high pressure but […]
While it remains cool and unsettled over much of Western and Central Europe, a persistent low spinning over the North of Italy will help draw the first heat wave of summer out of an increasingly scalding Libya across the Med into Greece and Turkey. This weekend will host widespread mid to upper 30s, even some low 40s are possible. Next week sees this hot, […]
Spring and now early summer has been turbulent across much of Europe, opposite of the same time last year and now that our beloved high pressure bubble has burst, the UK joins the rest in this messy start to summer 2016. Flooding downpours, lightning and even funnel clouds have been the main talking point. Low […]
The Atlantic Ocean goes through 20-30 year warm and cold cycles which have significant affect on the climate of Europe. Since 1996, the Atlantic has been it’s a warm mode and therefore summers steadily turned wetter in Western and Northern Europe. The spell from 2007 to 2012 was particularly dismal for Ireland, UK and Scandinavia, likely due to the […]
Many whom have been drawn into a false sense of security with the prolonged spell of warm, sunny weather to end May and begin June will be sorely disappointed at how this pattern has turned and is likely to hold. Low pressure remains dominant through this work week with laden skies across NI and Scotland and […]
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