United Kingdom & Ireland
A simple shift in the position of high pressure and wind shift means big changes coming late week as we loose the warm continental connection and draw in polar maritime air again. It was another glorious day up here across Scotland Tuesday but another dreary, soggy one further south. Visible satellite from yesterday shows a cloudless Scotland but […]
Thanks to cloudless skies and a stiff downslope ESE wind, Lusa, Isle of Skye was the place to be anywhere in the UK yesterday. The thermometer peaked at 26.7C which made for the warmest recorded temperature on the island in May and it was looking more like a Mediterranean island. As warm as yesterday or […]
BREAKING: 26.1C on the Isle of Skye makes today the warmest for ‘early May’ in 15 years for Scotland and warmest May day on record here! Castlederg, Northern Ireland has edged up to 24C, if it makes it to 25C, this would be the warmest for ‘early May’ since 1990! All four UK nations enjoyed their […]
Hard to believe we were dealing with snow and January level wind chills barely a week ago. We saw rare (even for winter) sea level snow on the Isles of Coll, Tiree and Iona while subfreezing wind chills shivered the North Sea Coast from Caithness to Kent even during the afternoon hours. Isle of Coll Tiree Iona This was […]
Temps continue to climb further north over the British Isles while it continues to cool further south over Iberia, even Morocco and Algeria. In fact, London could be warmer than many Mediterranean resorts tomorrow while Scotland and Northern Ireland should see the first 20s of the year. What a difference two weeks makes in Paris. Yesterday […]
An intensifying low spreading wind, rain and cooler air into Iberia is helping push the warmest air of the year northward. We enjoyed our first 21C in the SE of England yesterday and today it should warm to 24C. Further north across Northern Ireland and Scotland, we remain in the cooler, showery regime but in the […]
It was a cold final week of April across Scotland but for the heart of the Cairngorm Range, it was more like mid winter than mid spring with heavy snowfall, well below freezing nights and failure to crack freezing by day along with bitter winds. This day last week I decided to surface early (4.45am) on Thursday April 28, 2016 […]
By this weekend and beyond, the chill of late April will be forgotten, out of sight, out of mind! Here’s how April’s final week looked over Europe. We know the heat is building and heading our way. This trend usually sees the warmth over Iberia first. Sure enough it soared to 33.8C yesterday (likely Spain’s warmest day […]
Now that we’re turning the upper air pattern on it’s head by reversing the high over low, we’re finally in a position to plug southern warmth as the supressed subtropical high will finally get to lift north. You may want to dust down those BBQ’s as Fri-Sun is likely to see the first low 20s for many. […]
It’s looked and felt more like winter of late but thanks to the collapse of the Greenland block which brought persistent NNW air flow over the UK, we can finally begin to draw on air from the opposite direction. The abrupt flip from winter to summer is reflective of moody El Nino springs. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Expect to see […]
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