Farming Weekend Weather Forecast 13/7/18

[Simon Keeling]

Hello!

After this afternoons heavy showers (for some) te weekend is set to be dry for most. Temperatures are rising again too. More below.

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WEEKEND WEATHER FORECAST
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Issued: 1300 hrs, Friday 13th July 2018


SATURDAY
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Fronts affecting the west of Scotland and western Ireland on Saturday. These producing low cloud and some outbreaks of rain, most of it light. The warm front passing east is a weak feature and will bring high cloud.

Most areas are expected to be dry with good spells of sunshine.

Winds variable 10-15kt (F3 occ F4) in the south in the afternoon. Mainly SW 12-16kt (F4-F5) in western Scotland and Ireland.

SUNDAY

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Very little change on Sunday with front to the west. This gives further outbreaks of rain in western Scotland and western Ireland.

There may be some cloud and a few spots of rain drifting into the Isle of Man and northwest England too.

Elsewhere a dry day with good spells of sunshine and very little change through the day.

Winds mainly SW 12-16kt (F4) but variable 12-18kt (F4-F5) in the south in sea breezes.

**ends**

 

[Wombat]

Hi Simon, how come this year it has been so humid at times with no thunderstorms? Is the air drier, we have had a lot of days in the east where the humidity hangs in the air today being one of them you can cut it with a knife, normally we would have had one thunderstorm or 2 to clear it up but since May none this year?

Thanks

 

[Simon Keeling]

Hi Wombat...funnily enough we were discussing this in the office yesterday.

This isn't the definitive answer, but our hunch is that the ground has become so dry that there just isn't the moisture available to generate the clouds which of course produce the thunderstorms. You may have seen the video I shared on Facebook which showed the swirling hay filmed in Somerset? That wasn't a tornado but actually a thermal and showed that they are around but don't have moisture within them.

Given the generally east or southeast flow the air has come off the continent and so is even drier. As son as the winds change to something more westerly there will be moisture and so storm could be generated.

Sounds like a good story anyway doesn't it ?

Simon

 

[Wombat]

Thanks Simon, it's just very unusual to get to mid July and not heard a single rumble of thunder all year which we haven't this year. I know some areas have had some but they never seem to have got even close to here.

 

[Wombat]

Hottest day of the year here today