United Kingdom & Ireland
Well the pattern thankfully took a turn in January following an unprecedented, highly El Nino induced warm and wet November-December. The large-scale flip came at the close of December as a storm injected warm air into the arctic which distorted the strong cold circulation and flipped both Arctic and North Atlantic Oscillations negative. In fact it’s said that we had the […]
Due to the major Northeast US snowstorm I have changed the posting schedule today as you’ll have noticed. Europe video and write-up is usually before the US. Our pattern has turned fairly monotonous once again. Back in that wet, windy and unsettled regime. The system causing all the havoc on the other side of the […]
We’re back in the wet, windy, warmer regime with high pressure dominating the mid-latitudes while heights have lowered across the Arctic though not to the same degree as before. The removal of the blocking high, the jet has flattened and strengthened and that means the westerlies are back with frequent spells of wind, rain throughout Western Europe along […]
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. […]
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