The recent record mild winter in Europe
How much of the underlying cause of the recent record mild winter across Europe and western Russia was purely down to the dynamics of...
Pressure
March 2020 – circulation
The mean pressure chart for March 2020 has calmed down considerably on previous months. Large positive anomalies (+7hPa) across the Azores beefed up the...
February 2020 – circulation
Not that dissimilar to January, February continued the powerful zonal westerly regime that had begun back in December. Mean pressure anomalies continued to be...
Low Victoria, storm Dennis and the lowest pressure on record
I don’t think low Uta will get quite as deep as the all time record low for the North Atlantic, but it won’t be far off either (corrected).
The reason why it’s been so mild
High pressure over France and lower than average pressure to the north of Iceland puts the squeeze on the southwesterly flow across latitude 55 degrees north.
Highest pressure in January
The highest surface pressure in the month of January in the UK was 1053.6 hpa not a lot of people know that.
