This line of thunderstorms south of Birmingham woke me up, biblical rainfall and lighting every 20/30 seconds
The Met Office app is going completely mental, showing 40 degrees now in my small West Midlands village, this is the highest value I have ever seen forecasted here, beating July 2022.
It goes without saying I think this is massively overdone, I’d predict a max of around 36/7 degs
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ICON massively upgrades wind gusts for the Welsh coast on Saturday.
I will be on an exposed peninsula in Pembrokeshire on holiday, looking forward to it! 🤣
The ECM adds to the growing momentum for something much colder and snowier into early Feb. Our current pattern could easily flip to cold, just as easily as it could flip to mild like this week, watch this space 👀👀👀
The mist is finally starting to clear this Sunday on ECMWF, UKMO & GFS the original big 3 all singing from similar hymn sheet. Low pressure disrupting south into France and a cold easterly fetch to end this week.
In terms of potential ❄️ that is more relevant into next week. However, the far north including Scotland will likely start seeing snow risks as early as Saturday.
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Huge improvements on the GEFS 12z, looks mainly down to an increased confidence in the energy from the Atlantic heading south into France, opening the door to easterlies, rather than southeasterlies, for the UK this weekend



















