United Kingdom & Ireland
As of 11.30am the rain has become steady here in Cumbernauld as the first of many fronts push west to east across the UK. It’s a cold rain today following a frosty start but it’s on the backside of the front where southerly winds increase and therefore warmer air takes over once again. We’re back in the […]
It was another cold start to the day on both ends of the British Isles but Atlantic low pressure is closing in and will bring modifying southerly winds as we draw this week to a close. By Sunday, most of the UK should enjoy double digits and that’s above freezing of course! This pull back […]
The cold Europe pattern with Arctic/Greenland/North Atlantic blocking is well into a weakening phase as heights lower to the west of the UK and low pressure gains ground pushing the cold surface high east into continental Europe. Despite the gradual breakdown in this pattern, last night marked the coldest of winter for both the southern and northern UK. For the north, surface […]
Following the extreme mild of November/December, old man winter sure is catching up and gripping Europe in a big way. About as big of a turnaround as you’ll ever see! December anomaly January so far [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Cold and snow is the big talking point this month from the Black Sea to Highlands of Scotland. While the […]
As forecasted back at the beginning of last week, snow has indeed reached Greater London with a large swathe of the UK, especially central and northern areas under snow cover now. With cloud cover, snow cover isn’t as affective at driving down the temperature by night and without snow on the ground arctic air is wasted. However it looks […]
As the title says, we have not one but potentially 2 or 3 snow opportunities today through Monday/Tuesday. While plenty have seen snow in the last few days, plenty haven’t but I think fronts running into this deep low level cold will see snowfall and lying snow starting off in western/central Scotland as well as down the […]
My target for 2016 is to climb at least 3 munro’s (Scottish mountain above 3,000ft) and by that I mean entirely on foot and not using mechanical aid such as chair lifts etc. At 5am Wednesday (13th) morning, I scraped the frost off my car and set off for Aonach Mor, located roughly 7 miles N of Fort William. […]
Plenty of folks, mainly above 100m are waking to their first covering of snow this morning along with below freezing wind chills. Many of you who have stepped out this morning will have felt the difference, a drier, more biting cold representative of arctic air. Thanks to sunny skies, here’s a view of the Northern UK […]
It’s 4.45am and about to hit the road after defrosted my car. Thermals are on and taking the 2.5 hour drive up to Fort William where I am attempting to summit Aonach Mor elevation 4,006ft, 8th highest in UK today. This would be my 5th munro (Scottish mountain above 3,000ft) and most challenging given the solid winter conditions now […]
It’s kinda an all or nothing upcoming 5-7 day period for us. This ‘cold spell’ will be nothing special if we don’t get much in the way of snow on the ground except the higher elevations but with a widespread snow cover and with a 1032 surface high covering the UK, there’s the potential for […]
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