On 23/05/2018 07:22, N_Cook wrote:
On 22/05/2018 23:07, wrote:
Can anyone say why high pressure has predominated this month and what
caused this switch.
Thx


I gave up monitoring the relative patches in the Atlantic , for the SST
anomalies in the current and previous month 1/2 weekly output
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/
and storminess predictor for the UK,
because the summed pointers were so consistently non-stormy = extended
anticyclonic perhaps?

based around this paper
"Storminess and surges in the South
Western Approaches of the eastern North
Atlantic: The synoptic climatology ... "

https://www.researchgate.net/profile...tal-Storms.pdf


GFS 12Z run has decided to place a 2 day-long wind-storm over the
channel approaches at the end of the month, something a bit more lively