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5 Weather Things to Know For The Week Ahead

by Daniel Graves -

We're still in an unsettled regime for the week ahead, but a few details will help you stay dry and comfortable: 1 - Most settled north early: Ireland and Scotland will have a window of calmer weather Monday and Tuesday. Lighter winds and sunny spells, though west coasts remain vulnerable to cloud

A wet week to come, a drier to follow..

by Filotas Paschos -

Hello everyone A quick look at the two precipitation-anomaly maps (source: https://charts.ecmwf.int) tells a pretty clear story. For next week, the Atlantic is very much “open for business,” continuously feeding moisture into the region. That means fairly wet conditions for many areas, with frequent bouts of rain rather than long dry

5 Weekend Weather Things To Know

by Dr. Simon Keeling -

The weekend is upon is and here are the 5 things you need to know... 1. A damp start in central and eastern areas today (Friday), but turning brighter and drier from the north and west. 2. Severe gales in Scotland and Ireland on Saturday, heavy rain in western Scotland and parts

Signs of chillier weather as we get to Christmas?

by Dr. Simon Keeling -

This one is really tricky. After a spell of unsettled weather with a strong jet stream across the Atlantic and a positive NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation), one would expected to see a change in pattern at some time. Using purely anecdotal evident this is likely to be after about 4 to 6

Windy Winners

by Daniel Graves -

Yesterday, the story was about rain. One note that I forgot to mention about the values I presented - these are the values publicly available from a specific data collection source I use, which are the Met Office observation sites. There are plenty of other observation sites and I saw

Storm Bram Rainfall Winners

by Daniel Graves -

As of writing, 4pm Tuesday the 9th of December, most of the major rain from Storm Bram has already fallen. There is indeed more to come, but now is a good time to take a look at the winners of the past 24 hours: Our tops three rainfall victims are all

5 Week Ahead Weather Things To Know

by Daniel Graves -

This week won't feel too wintry for being the second week of December, but there's still plenty of action to talk about. Here's 5 notes to guide your weekend: 1 - Most active Monday night and Tuesday: A deep area of low pressure facilitates heavy rain and strong wind overnight Monday

Confusing MJO but there could be something happening

by Dr. Simon Keeling -

Interesting to see the MJO tracking through Phases 8, then 1 and 2 before becoming weaker into 3 around Christmas Day. That Phase 8 pattern usually shows higher pressure west as a split feature north and south in the Atlantic, lower pressure close by Ireland. It's close to now but not

Rainfall levels the next two weeks

by Filotas Paschos -

Good day all Well with the current weather setup, meaning a strong Icelandic Low that keeps pushing bands of rain and showers over the British Isles for the next couple of weeks, this will have as a result to have higher than normal rainfall. This can be easily be seen at

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