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A Return To Something More Seasonal In March?

Yesterday's videos give an insight into our near-term cold spell, but how are things looking more long term in terms of cold weather? See the 35-day GFS ensemble temperature chart for Birmingham, below: Model results tend to smooth out 35 days into the future, but I'm liking the look of this

5 Weather Week Things To Know …

Here's we go again then! Another week, and more rain? Well, yes, but there may be a bit of a change towards the end of the week...although probably not for long. These are your 5 Weather Week Things to Know ... 1. Rain west today (Monday) and morning rain in central and eastern

Cold on the horizon?

Good day everyone 👋 So, let’s talk weather — because things might get interesting toward the latter part of next week. Over the past few days, the forecast models have been hinting at a possible transient high-pressure system trying to build in. There’s still plenty of uncertainty around this (I’d put the

5 things for the weekend

🌧️ Rain and showers dominate, with heavier bursts across southern England, Wales and southern Ireland 🌬️ Breezy at times, adding a raw feel especially in exposed areas 🌥️ Best brighter spells likely in western Ireland between showers ☁️ Plenty of cloud elsewhere, keeping conditions rather dull 🌨️ Higher ground

Just how far south is the jet stream?

Looking through some data for January I thought this was an interesting chart. It shows the mean zonal wind anomaly at 30hPa (that's jet stream height at around 35,000ft). Zonal wind is the west-east flow around the hemisphere ('meridional' is the north-south flow). Now, take a look below. Hello and orange colours tell

Different Day, Same Rain

Another wet week ahead, and the chart below shows the GFS models' prediction on how much rain will fall by this coming Friday morning: As far as the patterns go, nothing has changed since last week. The wettest area is still northeast Scotland, where a near-constant stream of rain and snow

5 Weather Week Things To Know

As we go into another week with low pressure south of the British Isles and high pressure north, it's hard to know what detail to pick out. The overall story for the week is one of being dull and wet; and I know so many of you need a break from

Colder weather still teases

Here's the 11 to 15 day forecast surface temperature anomaly. Look how the depth of cold over Europe, slips through Scotland and parts of central northern and eastern England, but to the south temperatures are closer to average. Again this is highlighting how close that very cold weather is, and an occasional

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