UK climate: Flooding considerations stay after document January rain – Worldwide Dispatch

Why so moist?

Round 17 January a blocking space of excessive stress developed in Scandinavia and it is nonetheless there to today.

This has prevented areas of low stress from transferring past the UK, in order that they’ve change into slow-moving, bringing very moist climate, with south-west winds to the south of the UK and south-easterly winds to the north of the UK. This wind sample is liable for the distribution of rain.

It is price stating that it hasn’t been moist in every single place.

North-west England and west Scotland had a a lot drier January than regular, and elements of the Highlands have solely recorded 1mm of rain thus far this month.

The Scandinavian blocking space of excessive stress is lastly going to budge this week, permitting our climate to show colder with some hill snow within the north later this week.

Subsequent week our climate patterns will change into extra typical for the time of 12 months with the Atlantic jet stream returning to the north-west of Scotland, quite than taking an uncommon place close to Morocco.

There’ll nonetheless be rain round as we might count on in winter, however a few of the wettest climate will return to west Scotland. The rain will not be as excessive in east Scotland. Within the southwest of England, it will not rain each single day, there can be drier and sunnier days between our climate methods.

Heading in direction of the top of February, there are hints that an space of excessive stress could go to our shores, bringing some extra settled climate situations. It is a great distance off, but it surely’s the least we deserve given simply how moist and boring it has been over current weeks.