The NW-SE split: Is it becoming more pronounced

Bolty
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07 July 2025 16:43:04

This is something I feel is becoming more pronounced, and that is the famous NW-SE split, especially in the summer months. Just this year alone, the South East has been stuck in a warm, almost rainless spell, whilst up here in the North West, there's a fresh wind, a fresh feel to the temperature and an occasional shower blowing through. It has been quite a common theme in recent years and I was wondering what other people's views on this are.

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Devonian
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07 July 2025 16:46:45

#2

This is something I feel is becoming more pronounced, and that is the famous NW-SE split, especially in the summer months. Just this year alone, the South East has been stuck in a warm, almost rainless spell, whilst up here in the North West, there's a fresh wind, a fresh feel to the temperature and an occasional shower blowing through. It has been quite a common theme in recent years and I was wondering what other people's views on this are.

Originally Posted by: Bolty

It is all an effect of "YKW". But that is not a popular truth here so I'll leave it at that.

Bertwhistle
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07 July 2025 17:21:56

#3

This is something I feel is becoming more pronounced, and that is the famous NW-SE split, especially in the summer months. Just this year alone, the South East has been stuck in a warm, almost rainless spell, whilst up here in the North West, there's a fresh wind, a fresh feel to the temperature and an occasional shower blowing through. It has been quite a common theme in recent years and I was wondering what other people's views on this are.

Originally Posted by: Bolty

I think that might be possible Scott, certainly under certain set-ups; it's almost as if the S quarter is an extension of the continent in summer. I remember watching the hot weather repeatedly make it to the N coast of France and fail at Le Manche. I always just assumed the Channel cut things off but although it's probably not as simple as a climate belt in its entirety moving north, it's easy to imagine it, as if the key boundary has shifted.

Bertie, Itchen Valley.

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bledur
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07 July 2025 18:57:55

#4

This is something I feel is becoming more pronounced, and that is the famous NW-SE split, especially in the summer months. Just this year alone, the South East has been stuck in a warm, almost rainless spell, whilst up here in the North West, there's a fresh wind, a fresh feel to the temperature and an occasional shower blowing through. It has been quite a common theme in recent years and I was wondering what other people's views on this are.

Originally Posted by: Bolty

I think ir has become more pronounced over the last 20-30 years . Whether this is a fluctuation which is partially natural i do not know, but there have been other periods of hotter and drier summers in the south.

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