Month: October 2021
Lively European weather
There was some rather lively and very wet weather across parts of England and Wales yesterday as an active system pushed through. More rain pushed across southern counties of England overnight as Storm Aurore, named by the French met office, pushed through bringing heavy and persistent rainfall to places as
Video: Fast Forecast – Thursday to Monday
Video: Wednesday’s Look Ahead – CFSv2 sees a ridge building in November
Video: 2 Week Planner (20/10/21)
ECMWF 6-Week to early December
And so here it is, the first ECMWF forecast looking into the early stages of December. It makes for unsettled reading at first, but there are indications of the weather becoming chillier and drier through the month. 23rd October to 29th October Jet stream overhead the UK and Ireland (see chart below) Unsettled conditions,
Video: Fast Forecast – Wednesday to Sunday
Video: Tuesday’s Look Ahead – Colder November?
Thoughts on winter from Japan
In yesterdays Look Ahead I mentioned the winter forecast from the JMA. Below is the forecast 50mb anomalies through December to February 2022. Notice the yellow colours over the UK which indicate higher than average pressure. The centre of the higher pressures appear to be in the Atlantic and so we'd expect








