BlueLightning wrote:
Increasing signs now, for another long lasting heatwave.
Possibly as intense as the last one

I'll be enjoying some good night's sleep from now until Thursday.

Not everyone enjoys it, and it's bad news for the water situation in
the South-East

Remember people with Hayfever & Athsma suffer bigtime during spells of
high heat & humidity. (Hardly ever mentioned in the news)

I set up a loop by opening tabs on this link for the charts of 11th to
16th inc. : http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkfaxbraar.htm

It shows a series? of Low pressure areas sweeping into the Arctic. I
fear that the Arctic ice cover will be missing next winter too. But I
know little of the predominant weather patterns there to be making much
more than a suggestion.

For these Lows are not that unusual however they do provide warm
weather by Arctic standards.

Meanwhile it is obvious to all that an unusual situation persists in
the UK. I dare say a few residents of much of southern China, Southern
California, Southern Chile and West Java, Indonesia would gladly trade
places.

I wish I could say what was causing the problem but one thing I do know
is that when a run of such a pattern in the UK finally breaks, it does
so with cataclysmic results; not necessarily cataclysmic in the UK
-although floods have been known as the weather "pays its debt".

I would suggest that all be on the lookout for unusual geophysical
events.

Weatherlawyer wrote:

I set up a loop by opening tabs on this link for the charts of 11th to
16th inc. : http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkfaxbraar.htm

It shows a series? of Low pressure areas sweeping into the Arctic. I
fear that the Arctic ice cover will be missing next winter too. But I
know little of the predominant weather patterns there to be making much
more than a suggestion.

For these Lows are not that unusual however they do provide warm
weather by Arctic standards.

In July and August, only one or two cyclones move to the arctic seas
from the northern Atlantic. On the other hand, more cyclones move
towards the pole from the midlatitudes of Siberia and Canada. The
number of cyclones in the Chukchi Sea in July can be as high as six,
and in the East Siberian Sea up to four or five.

http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/patterns/cyclones.html

I must get to work and see how many Lows this year have intruded into
the barren north. But I only have a link for the Northern Altlantic
route. Still it is something. One can do a lot more with a lot less.