United Kingdom & Ireland
Katie may be gone but we remain in a blustery, showery and cool regime today. Cold mid level air on the rear of Katie is allowed to drop into the lower atmosphere within the heavier convective showers. Beautiful night satellite image of Katie’s centre approaching the SW Norwegian coast. The system sure left her mark over southern England. […]
The immediate focus in weather on this Easter Monday is Storm Katie barrelling through the English Channel bringing significant transportation impact to both UK and mainland Europe. Amber warning currently in place from Isle of Wight to Kent. Shield of moderate to heavy rain is pushing north. There’s even some snow over Cheshire this morning as cold air gets […]
The current depression (still forming) over the British Isles is delivering gusty winds and bursts of heavy rain across Ireland and the UK is bringing summer-like warmth to Spain’s south and east coasts. Strong southwest winds blowing across Iberia ahead of the cold front is downsloping, compressing and warming on approach the the Med coast, AKA terral winds which has brought temperatures as high as 28C […]
This Easter weekend is by no means a washout but what I would say is plan your outdoor activities carefully. We’re back beneath the jet and the first significant system will slide in this evening setting the stage for a wet and windy Saturday for most with gales widely for a time as the main […]
Gone is our high pressure dominated pattern which lasted the best part of two weeks. It seems typical that we’re back beneath the trough and frequent spells of wind, rain and at times hill snow just as we head into the Easter weekend. The vast low taking up most of the North Atlantic is clearly visible in this morning’s satellite and […]
Our nice prolonged dry spell is drawing to a close as our beloved high continues to deflate. Fronts are creeping into Irish and UK airspace in weak form but this is laying the ground for more significant wind and rain producers starting tomorrow. As the high deflates in the west, so the trough and cold is weakening in […]
The warming trend of the stratosphere in recent weeks is casting a shadow over spring 2016 and by that I mean there’s unlikely to be a sudden summer with lingering cool well into April, possibly extending into May. A cold mid and upper atmosphere and warming surface may increase convective shower activity with heavy downpours of rain, hail and […]
For the best part of 10 days, high pressure has been dominating the Northwest weather pattern, supplying us with a sustained dry period which has allowed substantial drying out of our saturated ground. It seems typical that our weather is changing just ahead of the Easter weekend. Quite the thermal contrast across the continent yesterday. […]
The UK and Ireland’s longest dry spell since probably last September continues but you’ll have noticed an increase in cloud cover thanks to our high repositioning and therefore drawing moister air in from the Atlantic. Still, where sun shines (central and southern Scotland today), it’s pleasantly mild at 10-15C but as you well know, under […]
We’re at a seasonal cross roads, a time when the atmosphere wants to hold onto winter in the high latitudes but become summer in the low latitudes. The mid latitudes are in the battle zone between winter and summer. March is a fickle month, a month which can produce low 20s C as far north as Scotland like we […]
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