My interest in meteorology was born during my undergraduate years in Colorado, USA. I was learning to snowboard and obsessively monitored the snowfall forecasts. So when the first snowfall forecasts arrive for the mountains of the UK, I must indulge the curiosity of my younger self! The below chart shows

A complex system of low pressure cores will facilitate strong but variable winds today. See below for the forecast chart for 6am from GFS:  Two low pressure cores are visible - east England and northwest of Scotland. The low over England is moving eastward, while the low to the northwest is

As we say goodbye to the inversion this weekend in exchange for unsettled weather, I wanted to share a satellite image which gives a new perspective on inversions. See below for an image from last Sunday morning. While the inversion had not yet set in as low and widely as in