Weather in the general media (Newspaper features etc)

[Summer Sun]

Winter's over! Snow flurries in the north are the cold snap's last blast before Spring fully blooms with 20C expected from Sunday

http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz2Q4lZbsNT

[Chris K]

Not sure if it should be posted here, but a "special ITV news investigation' is looking at the possible link of the retreating Arctic sea to the weather we've had this winter and cold start to spring we have just had.

Thought it may interest some - will be on sometime between 6.30-7pm this evening (10 mins time)

[Terminal Moraine]

Just heard the BBC 1 lunchtime weather presenter say our weather is 'on a journey'........what next, 'going forward'. Truly dreadful presentation.

Yes I saw that too. Absolutely agree with you. The presenter has been watching too much X Factor or Celebrities Dancing on Ice, or whatever it is.

[Summer Sun]

Finally there's sun-thing to smile about: Forecasters say Sunday's temperature may rise to 20C making it the hottest day of 2013

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2307018/UK-weather-Finally-theres-sun-thing-smile-Forecasters-say-Sundays-temperature-rise-20C-making-hottest-day-2013.html#ixzz2Q8oHRCHy

Edited April 11, 2013 by Gavin.

[Summer Sun]

Could UK be heading for another Ice Age?

 

BRITAIN’S winters are getting colder because of melting Arctic ice, the Government’s forecaster said yesterday. Met Office chief scientist Julia Slingo said climate change was “loading the dice†towards freezing, drier weather — and called publicly for the first time for an urgent investigation. Prof Slingo said: “If you look at the way our weather patterns have behaved over the past four or five years, we’re beginning to think that there is something happening. “Our climate is being disrupted by the warming of the Arctic that we have observed very dramatically since 2007. “We should pull together the best scientists to see how we can detect the influence of the Arctic on the jet stream, and on weather around the world.â€

 

The UK saw the chilliest March for 50 years and the coldest Easter night since 1917. Prof Slingo said it was not yet clear what effect the Arctic was having on our summers. Meanwhile the cold was blamed after eight rare stone curlews birds which migrate from Africa and Spain were found dead in fields in Wiltshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Almost half of Brits want to emigrate mainly because of the weather, says a survey.

 

By JOHN KETTLEY, TV weather forecaster

 

THE Arctic ice rapidly melting as air there continues to warm inevitably means an icy outflow from the Pole — and colder and longer winters. Our usual winter saviour, the good old jet stream, migrated south with the birds. And it’s reluctant to return, as heavy cold air over the Northern Hemisphere acts like a huge stopper. But it may be the natural ebb and flow of our climate. Long, cold winters have bitten our backsides before, while both poor and hot summers are part of our climate. We live in strange times.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4881369/Is-the-UK-set-for-Arctic-weather.html#ixzz2Q8sXUcyB

 

[Summer Sun]

Is the UK heading for ANOTHER Arctic winter? Met Office calls emergency meeting to discuss if melting ice is causing Britain to freeze

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2307333/Is-UK-heading-Arctic-winters-Met-Office-calls-urgent-meeting-discuss-melting-ice-causing-Britain-freeze.html#ixzz2Q9kUgvxb
 

Edited April 11, 2013 by Gavin.

[Summer Sun]

Tornadoes And Severe Storms Hit US Midwest

 

A severe spring storm in the US midwest has left at least one person dead and several injured. The fatality came after a tornado hit Kemper County in the far eastern part of Mississippi. In Missouri, the National Weather Service says that the St Louis suburb of Hazelwood was hit by a tornado on Wednesday night. A National Weather Service meteorologist said emergency crews were still assessing whether tornadoes were to blame for other damage in Missouri and neighbouring Illinois. Missouri governor Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency. The storms have also brought ice and snow to much of the midwest and parts of the south east of the US. The latest one formed a giant T on Thursday, NBC News reported, leading to snow in upstate New York, ice-covered roads in Wisconsin and heavy rain in Ohio and New Orleans.

 

http://news.sky.com/story/1077176/tornadoes-and-severe-storms-hit-us-midwest

Edited April 12, 2013 by Gavin.

[Summer Sun]

Warm weekend on the way with temperatures as high as 19C but get ready for April showers

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2308122/UK-weather-Warm-weekend-way-temperatures-high-19C-ready-April-showers.html

 

[Summer Sun]

Break out the barbie! Sun shines at last (well for some of us anyway) but get ready  for April showers

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2308122/UK-weather-Warm-weekend-way-temperatures-high-19C-ready-April-showers.html

 

Floods and 80mph gales in another downpour week

 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/391546/Floods-and-80mph-gales-in-another-downpour-week

 

BRITAIN WILL BASK IN 21C

 

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/308852/Britain-will-bask-in-21c/

Edited April 13, 2013 by Gavin.

[Summer Sun]

Weather Turns As Spring Finally Starts

 

http://news.sky.com/story/1077634/weather-turns-as-spring-finally-starts

 

 

[Summer Sun]

BRITAIN 'HOTTER THAN CORFU'

 

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/309031/Britain-hotter-than-Corfu-/

 

 

[Summer Sun]

BBC weather for the week ahead

 

Often wet

 

Sometimes windy

 

Milder than recent weeks

 

[Summer Sun]

Sunshine and 71F at last... but storms are on the way

 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/391990/Sunshine-and-71F-at-last-but-storms-are-on-the-way

 

[Summer Sun]

Welcome warmth for Europe

 

Matt Taylor explains a sudden change from winter to warm conditions in Europe.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/22152539

Edited April 15, 2013 by Gavin.

[Radiating Dendrite]

TEST - IGNORE

Edited April 16, 2013 by Radiating Dendrite

[Summer Sun]

Why gardeners must slug it out with armies of pests this year

 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/392259/Why-gardeners-must-slug-it-out-with-armies-of-pests-this-year

 

[Summer Sun]

Planes struggle to land in high winds as Britain is battered by gales of up to 72mph

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311018/Planes-struggle-land-high-winds-Britain-battered-gales-72mph.html#ixzz2QpEG32uv

 

 

[Summer Sun]

At last, it’s hotting up with a sunny 72F

 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/393315/At-last-it-s-hotting-up-with-a-sunny-72F

 

Britain basks in bright spring day... but it looks like it could be one of the coldest London Marathons on record

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312037/UK-weather-A-bright-Spring-day-Britain--looks-like-perfect-running-weather-tomorrows-London-Marathon.html#ixzz2R13Dig2c

 

 

 

[Summer Sun]

WeatherOnline's First half of May forecast

 

 

 

Valid from 20/04 to 20/05 2013

Cool May

Issued: Saturday 20th April 2013
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling & Captain Bob

Cool and unsettled first half of May

Looking at the 'basic' pattern trends as a whole, the overall inflections have not been doing too badly....after a long spell of anticyclonic influences and an easterly component to the flow, low pressure then 'destabilised' the settled and cold conditions into something more unsettled.

Looking ahead through the short and medium term, it looks as if high pressure should be remaining as a large and slow moving feature over the North Atlantic, forming a block here steering low pressure systems around its flanks, mainly from the northwest or enhancing at times the east to north-easterly flow across southern Britain, all areas seeing some unsettled conditions interspersed with drier and warmer conditions as ridges build in and we feel the benefit of increasingly strong sunshine.

There is evidence that the beginning of May could see a light, but noticeably chilly, northerly to northeast flow across the bulk of the UK, high pressure persistent to the west or northwest.

Through to mid month it looks as if low pressure will be breaking the block, all areas becoming rather more unsettled and at times breezy, more especially across central and southern Britain where outbreaks of rain and heavy potentially thundery showers are likely, higher pressure across northern Britain should see these areas drier and feeling warmer in strong sunshine.

The middle of May, should see all areas becoming generally unsettled as low pressure becomes complex and potentially slow moving, heavy showers or longer spells of rain at times, feeling cooler across northern Britain later.

*........27/04/13*

Through this period it is likely that all areas will experience a mixture of sunshine and unsettled conditions, feeling cool at times beneath cloud and rainy areas. Generally there is the indication of much of the activity originating from the North Atlantic, a chilly and cool direction at the best of times, showers or longer spells of rain brought in as low pressure slips through or close by the UK. As these systems clear through conditions will settle and strong sunshine this combination should to some extent offset the chill given shelter across southern, central Britain. There is increasing evidence from the patterns that a chilly northerly will set in through much of the UK during late April, so the threat of overnight frost return, the combination of light winds, clear skies and Arctic sourced air favourable for its formation.

*28/04/13.......04/05/13*

A cold northerly breeze continues to affect all areas of the UK, bright and sunny with just a scattering of showers along exposed coastal areas with overnight frost becoming a problem through mainly sheltered southern areas and across northern Britain. This plunge of cool, Arctic air sourced air could have the effect of destabilising the pattern across Western Europe, low pressure bringing rather unsettled weather across the near continent. There is the potential for rather unsettled and windy conditions moving up into central and southern Britain, heavy showers and a cool easterly breeze for a time before this clears in to brighter and sunny weather with heavy showers. Western and northern Britain remaining largely settled and dry, given shelter to the west these areas should see good spells of sunshine and pleasant spring temperatures, some scattered showers at first easing away.

*05/05/13......09/05/13*

The bulk of the UK should become mainly dry and settled as a weak area of high pressure establishes, light winds and broken skies should provide most areas with decent few days of sunny and spring-like conditions. Pleasantly warm in spring sunshine, just the chance of scattered showers developing in the west later as pressure begin to generally fall as low pressure approaches from off the Atlantic and high pressure slips away eastward.

*10/05/13......15/05/13*

An 'Atlantic change' here as low pressure advances from the west or southwest, rain spreading across southern and central Britain. Winds freshening from the southwest bringing cloudier skies to all areas and a general decline to rather more unsettled weather for a time across the whole UK through the middle of May.

Simon & Capn Bob

 

 

 

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-app/reports?LANG=en&MENU=205&FILE=tma&DAY=20130420

Edited April 21, 2013 by Gavin.

[Summer Sun]

POLLEN MISERY FOR THE UK AS 16 MILLION SET TO SUFFER FROM HAYFEVER

 

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/310286/Pollen-misery-for-the-UK-as-16-million-set-to-suffer-from-hayfever/

 

[Summer Sun]

BBC weather for the week ahead with Matt Taylor

 

[Summer Sun]

72F sun on way as South gives North the cold shoulder

 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/393738/72F-sun-on-way-as-South-gives-North-the-cold-shoulder

 

Spring with no flowers: Blooms will be about a month late after a run of cold weather

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312453/UK-weather-Spring-flowers-Blooms-month-late-run-cold-weather.html#ixzz2RBIgj3Qf

 

 

[Summer Sun]

Spring Sunshine As Temperatures Rise

 

http://news.sky.com/story/1081322/weather-spring-sunshine-as-temperatures-rise

 

[Summer Sun]

Spring blows hot and cold

 

BBC Weather's Peter Gibbs explains how Spring may go cold on us this week.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/22251231

 

[Summer Sun]

Sun shines as England celebrates St George's Day with temperatures set to hit 20C

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313365/St-Georges-Day-2013-Sun-shines-England-celebrates-temperatures-set-hit-20C.html#ixzz2RIEJ60Ss