United Kingdom & Ireland
I know I said in this morning’s video that I wasn’t going to post today but there are a couple of quick points I wanted to cover. Firstly, following yesterday’s pretty persistent sleet and snow (rain for some) streaming in on a stiff, cold east wind, we saw Braemar sink to -14.1C. Coldest in the UK so […]
Now that is a cold wind out there this morning. The easterly blowing off Denmark will contain a mix of rain, sleet and snow with an increasingly turn over to snow as Saturday progresses. Visible satellite this morning shows the first of several lows pushing through the English Channel. Winds blow in off the Atlantic […]
As your well aware, we have a cold and blustery weekend in store with wind, rain and snow skirting the far South but a real blasting down over France. The further north you go over the UK, the colder the air and stiffer the easterly becomes with snow showers pushing in off the North Sea. BBC […]
Some woke to a ‘surprise’ covering of snow across Scotland this morning. Expect more of this as we head into the weekend as lows slide underneath a building dome of cold air. Yellow warning out for snow across northeast Scotland tomorrow! These deflected lows are a result of the Arctic Oscillation flipping back negative, triggered by strong cross […]
The pattern across Ireland and the British Isles has relaxed substantially following the recent bombardment of storms. Higher pressure and colder air filtering south will make it at least feel a bit more February-like while the storms get re-routed into France, Spain and Portugal. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Little weather to speak of today through early Friday with […]
With a negative Arctic Oscillation but positive North Atlantic Oscillation, we turn colder but remain unsettled. The non -NAO means the Atlantic remains our active but the strat warm induced -AO means the jet has been forced south, meaning most of the UK is in the colder air. However with a still active jet/storm track as […]
This year’s highly active storm pattern continues to role with Imogen, the 9th named storm of the season slamming southern Ireland and Britain. The more southerly track is thanks to a more southerly jet stream providing a break for Northern Ireland and Scotland. Tremendous wind energy associated with Imogen crossing hundreds of miles of Atlantic has generated phenomenal […]
Thought I would quickly take a look back at January and how it played out across Europe and the UK. As you can see from the below graphics 2016’s opening month was ended up warmer as well as wetter than normal. Largely down to the strong El Nino, we’ve seen temps climb as high as […]
The first in the next series of Atlantic lows is now pushing over the UK with wind and rain and this sets the tone for turbulent weekend and start to next week. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] A cold upper trough is expanding over the NE Atlantic/Western Europe and lows will rotate around the trough bringing several hits of […]
Although there’s no true sign of an NAO flip back to negative, the AO is tanking in response to the stratospheric warming and so we’;; see a southward dip in a still strong jet stream next week. This does make a difference and a colder pattern. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Although most want to see the big […]
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