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(Thumbnail picture credit: “rawsoa” via instagram) It has been reported that people are beginning to “swim” in the mud at Download festival to get out of it. Warning: strong language and humor! In the last few days we’ve seen numerous met office rain warnings, environment agency flood alerts & warnings. Some parts of Lincolnshire have…

The Met Office has issued further weather warnings for many parts of the UK, more especially focused on more northern parts of the UK into Thursday. Parts of Lincolnshire have seen twice the monthly June rainfall average in just 48 hours, with some stations recording 120-130mm, around 5 inches, of rain. Through this evening and…

Image in thumbnail credit: National Weather Service. A widespread heatwave has been affecting California and the West Coast with multiple record stations shattering their June records by on average around 3 to 4 Fahrenheit. San Francisco itself has recorded highs of 100°F, smashing previous records. To put things into perspective, the average maximum temperature for…

The jet stream is about to become unusually strong. The following chart shows the position and intensity of the jet stream this Sunday, the 9th of February 2020. Notice it’s intensity – indeed off the scale for this particular chart, indicating jet stream speeds likely near 200mph. Whilst these winds speeds are at jet stream…

It’s been an absolutely awful day for June, and earlier today the Met Office released an AMBER be prepared weather warning which thankfully expires at 11pm tonight, however there are a plethora of further warnings for throughout this week for more heavy rain. River levels are starting to respond with 19 flood alerts and 1…

Wonder why Summer is so shocking? The EU has just now stated that it will be disallowing the UK to receive heatwaves from Spain. Year after year, the UK has been enjoying hot plumes of air from Spain and South France, however the EU has ruled this out from happening again under shock new legislation…