United Kingdom & Ireland
Mothering Sunday 2016 over the United Kingdom will be marked by chilly sunshine with just a few showers here and there. Following a widespread clear sky and lighter winds than of late, temperatures at dawn Sunday will be on the chilly side. Southern Britain will see town and cities waking up to between 0 and +2C (countryside 0 to -2C) […]
Many across the central swathe of Ireland, England and Wales are waking to snow this morning. Thanks to an injection of polar air being drawn in and wrapped around the centre of a low over the UK. Snow depth forecast from yesterday. Nice scene from Dublin this morning. Near whiteout over Saddleworth Moor in the South Pennines. Loveclough Rossendale, […]
When cold meets warm you gets storms and extremes. There’s been a lot of extreme weather affecting Europe over the past week with arctic air diving south over the Western side of the continent while it’s been like summer in Greece and Turkey. A storm crossing Iberia producing hurricane-force wind, heavy rain and disruptive snow along […]
It’s a rather snowy start to Hump Day across higher elevations of Scotland, Northern Ireland and N England as a cold front swept through overnight bringing the return of winter! TOP IMAGE CREDIT: Traffic Scotland [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] The main system, which actually came off southern Greenland progresses SSE over England in weakening and more showery from today, […]
A cold front sliding W to E across Scotland this evening will introduce much colder air and a sharp drop temperature and snow level overnight tonight. Latest GFS surface shows frequent, blustery showers feeding in across Northern Ireland, Scotland and N England tonight into Wednesday morning. Showers falling more as snow through the 2nd half of tonight. Some […]
Following a remarkably warm March 2012, we experienced the opposite in the following March which turned out to be the UK’s coldest in 50 years. All courtesy of a sudden stratospheric warming event which held a -AO/NAO throughout the month. March 2013 City Temp. Departure (Celsius) % Of Normal Precip London -1.5 205% Birmingham -2.9 132% Dublin -2.4 […]
On the meteorological calendar, we end winter today and commence spring tomorrow. Winter 2015-16 will be remembered not for it’s cold and snow but warm and wet. The bulk of the warmth came during December, coinciding with the likely peaking of this years record tying El Nino which overwhelmed the entire hemispheric pattern. Nov-Dec Although […]
Wouldn’t this be great to see in March following the UK’s 3rd warmest winter on record! [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Combine the above collapse of the PV projected by GFS ensemble above with the MJO entering phase 8 which gives this for March… and models day 5-10 show this… We cannot rule out an impressive cold spell, […]
As expected, a blocking high situated across the Northern UK has deflected Atlantic energy south and a deep Atlantic low is producing strong wind, low level rain and heavy snow across much of interior Spain. This low is dragging arctic air with it and as a result, today will probably be the coldest of winter […]
With a chilly but settled end to February, it looks as though meteorological winter’s final month will end up slightly below normal temperature wise. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] The ECMWF shows a nice blocky, chilly look next 5 days for UK and Western Europe. Interesting but not surprising, the blocking looks to hold day 5-10. Looking good for a continuation of […]
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