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Wet And Unsettled On Monday

Monday is shaping up to be a very wet and windy day for England and Wales, as well as southern parts of Ireland. The 6-hour rainfall totals chart for noon on Monday tells the story: Several of Monday's 6-hour charts look approximately like this, so I expect very heavy rain will

Rainfall levels

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

5 things for the weekend ahead

🌧️ Unsettled spells linger ; occasional showers moving through🌥️ Brief brighter breaks between the cloud and rain💨 Breezy at times, especially near coasts❄️ Chilly feel overall, particularly during the mornings and nights🌦️ West generally fairer, east more changeable

A Quick Soapbox Moment

I often try to avoid going onto my soapbox as I still consider myself a relatively new meteorologist who is much more interested in learning and taking in information than pushing my opinion out, but I do have one thing I must mention. Media reporting on winter weather can be so

Becoming Mild, Including Overnight

On oncoming warm front will bring a swathe of milder, humid air over the British Isles on Wednesday night into Thursday. See below for the forecast minimum temperatures for midnight on Thursday: Minimum temperatures of 7 to 11C across Ireland, these temperatures reaching into southwest England as well. Very mild for this

Average Temperatures Upcoming

I've always struggled to feel comfortable talking about "average" weather over the British Isles. Our weather is characterized by the coming and going of Atlantic systems and the various perturbations thereof, which bring variable conditions on the scale of hours to weeks. We can average all our data from the

5 things for the week ahead

🌧️ Frequent Rain Bands – Repeated Atlantic systems bringing spells of steady rain and showers across many areas. ☁️ Cloudy Intervals – Long periods of overcast skies in between rain bands, keeping conditions feeling dull. 💨 Blustery at Times – Winds strengthening with each passing system, especially mid-week. ❄️

Rainfall outlook for the week

Good day all, The coming week will be dominated by a series of Atlantic-driven weather systems, bringing repeated bands of rain interspersed with showers. As shown in the ECMWF anomaly map below, most of the British Isles lie within the green shading, indicating rainfall amounts above what is typical for this

A bit milder..still cold though

Good day all, The past week has brought a noticeable shift in our weather, with the first real signs of winter and snow reaching even relatively low levels. From today, winds turn more westerly, allowing a slightly milder Atlantic airmass to move in. The improvement will be modest, and conditions will

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