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High Pressure Christmas 25
The pressure is on, no, not your blood pressure… depending on family arrangements of course! The major models have largely aligned on a scenario where the current mild, unsettled Atlantic weather breaks down just before Christmas, replaced by a large area of High Pressure. This brings a “classic winter” feel: mostly dry, sunny, and cold,…
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Decem-brrrr?
Halloween and bonfire night have passed us and we find ourselves once again looking ahead towards winter. Will it be mild and wet? Will it be cold and dry? Will we spend 10 minutes each morning trying to find the ice scraper only to make do with a credit card and frozen fingers? December, statistically…
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From Flakes to Facts: Our Snow Tracker
We love to see your snow reports, but the social media space has changed with the sale of Twitter (hem, “X”) to Elon. This saw disruption to many great websites like uksnowmap.com, which are still trying to navigate the effects of Musks brain farts. But, it did give us an opportunity to build our own…
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Community lead
I have become more and more preoccupied with my business, which I run alongside working a full time job. Life has got busier and priorities have shifted. If I’m honest here, this project has been tainted by Idea-ism. Too many ideas syndrome include crippling indecision, procrastination punctuated with delusions of grandeur. From building a shop…
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WHITE Christmas??
Snow is falling, all around me.. but is it? Will it? Will we get the Christmas card Christmas this year? Well, in three words, We don’t know. Forecasting specifics on specific days at this range is impossible, but we can get an idea of what the broad scale patterns are likely to be doing and…
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Cold & Wintry, will it snow?
The weather has turned decidedly chilly in the last day or so with many of us waking up to a frost. The cold weather will be with us through much of this week and into the weekend too. High pressure centred over Greenland and low pressure over Scandinavia has drawn in colder north or north-easterly…
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Winter 2023/24 Thoughts
We’re deep into what has been a particularly wet autumn and naturally thoughts are beginning to turn to winter. Will winter bring more of this unpleasant, unsettled weather or will we see a shift to something more… festive? In this blog I’m going to discuss some of the drivers we have going into winter, what…
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Sudden Stratospheric… what now?
If you’ve been anywhere near the topic of weather on social media lately you will have seen the words “Sudden Stratospheric Warming” being talked about, a lot. Currently, high above the Arctic the stratosphere is rapidly warming. In the last couple of days it’s warmed by as much as 20C. When this phenomena, known as…
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Cold & Wintry – Will there be snow?
We’re 7 days into meteorological winter and cold weather has arrived across the UK, indeed over the next couple of days much colder weather will be drifting southwards across the UK bringing widespread frosts, the risk of ice and in a few places the risk of some snowfall. Any snow over the coming days will…