Isn’t it the seasonal weakening of the jet stream which facilitates more blocking? It’s harder, and therefore more noteworthy, when northern blocking is able to take hold in the winter months, when the jet stream is at its most active.
Anyway, much as I like seasonal warmth and sunshine, I’m conscious of the rainfall deficit across much of the SE. Incursions if low pressure from the south would be welcome, and offer some interest to fans of thundery weather.
Of course, it's not just the SE which experiencing these rainfall deficits.
That has also been a major issue in parts of SE Scotland as well, including here in Edinburgh where every single month during this year with the exception of February has been substantially drier than average up until now with this month also going that same way.
That is something which I have been pointing out quite a lot in this forum just recently in various threads (I even started a separate thread in order to discuss that very subject and there has been another similar thread since then).
We did get some welcome rain for the gardens today, but it is going to take a lot more than that to get us out of that deficit and if the latest model output is correct, I can't really see that happening any time soon.
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29 June 2022 19:21:22
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The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.