United Kingdom & Ireland
Powerful 929mb Storm Frank sure left a legacy behind creating havoc over many parts of the UK and Ireland, particularly Scotland this time. He’s also been responsible for pumping incredible warmth all the way to the pole where it went from -20s to 0C while Svalbard north of Norway topped +10C yesterday when they should be […]
It’s all about Storm Frank this morning and following a very wet and windy night, many including the Environment Agency are closely monitoring river levels. Flooding is affecting many parts and do expect further flooding issues through today, especially Dumfries & Galloway. Cumbria, Lancashire into Yorkshire, areas very sensitive after recent major flooding. Serious flooding in parts of […]
Great hi-res visible satellite view of Storm Frank this morning as the sun came up. Note the southern extension of the front. It’s this that will bring the bad weather to the UK and not so much the low itself, that will have greatest impact on Iceland but as we’ve seen all too often, it’s the trailing […]
Every weekend in the run up to New Year, I thought it would be good to take a step back in time and relive some of our most brutal and legendry British and European winters of the last 100 years. Following back to back winters with prolonged spells of crippling snow and bitter cold, the entire hemisphere’s focus in winter 2011-12 was […]
HOPEFULLY, all is not lost! I use caution with the below charts as I’ve seen this time and time again only for it to not materialise. However, check out the huge flip in the hemispheric upper height field over the next 10-15 days! [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] AO looks to go negative while NAO still remains positive but should […]
I trust you all had a lovely Christmas and continue to enjoy the festivities. For some, it’s been a very wet affair and even devastating once again with further flash flood issues for Northwest England. Boy what a dreadful time it’s been for these folks. Flood chaos witnessed in northwest Wales overnight. As of this […]
While there was no cooling towards the end of December, the overall December Outlook played out quite well with warm and wet the rule. If there was an underestimate to the month, it came with the degree of warmth seen, likely down to the peaking of the Super El Nino which I believe is overwhelming the pattern not just over […]
As forecast back at the beginning of the week, the open to Christmas Eve will be rather lively with Storm Eva named by the MO. The worst of the wind and rain will be felt early in the morning but her presence will be felt through this evening as well as well as through Christmas Eve day. Winds will widely touch gale […]

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