On Aug 6, 4:12*pm, Dawlish wrote:
On Jul 30, 8:11*am, Dawlish wrote:

I did mention this yesterday, but there are possibilities of some very
warm weather in the second part of next week, especially for the SE,
with a plume. Some very hot weather for Spain and SW France is now
likely, with an escape of hot air from north Africa. An Atlantic low
could spoil it for us by toppling the plume and forcing the heat
further east, so there's no certainties in this, but it would be a
welcome respite from this cool and wet weather if it came off.

The plume toppled to some extent and the warmest weather has ended up
to our East and is heading for Scandinavia, but enough warm air has
found it's way into the far SE corner to push temps over 28C for a
couple of days. Warmer air is just over the channel in the Pas de
Calais with 90F.

Seems to have been a feature of the last few weeks that there's an
unusually sharp west-east temperature increase, with locations less
than 100 miles apart on a west/east axis getting markedly different
weather.

It's also been remarkable how rubbish (yes subjective term I know) the
weather's been in central southern England since the 27th of July,
given how high (near 1020) the pressure's often been. Another drab
dreary second-half-of-the-first-decade-of-the-21st-century summer day
again today.... and I was expecting it to get better! :-( Was
expecting more "warm with scattered thunderstorms" type weather today.
Oh well, hopefully it *will* improve next week....

Nick