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Signs for a high pressure anomaly to become established somewhere over NW Europe in early May. Hopefully this will bring fine settled weather (with some exceptions). This chart is an example for 4-8 May.
The weather map over the next 5 days will look something like this. Low pressure anchored over western Europe will bring above average rain & below average sunshine levels, notably to parts of France, Portugal & Spain.
A neat set of maps showing the anomalies relative to 1981-2010 for precipitation, RH, soil moisture and air temperature for FEB 2018
Sea surface temperature anomaly maps from the start of the year. Lots going on, including cooling along the west coast of Africa & warming between Madagascar and India.
Mostly sunny at the moment. NASA satellite imagery shows high cloud/contrails & snow covered high ground.
Some clear skies on this NASA satellite imagery allows us to see the snow covered ground across the near continent (coloured red to differentiate from the cloud)
Variable precipitation anomalies across Europe in January 2018, but particularly above average in France & Switzerland.
January 2018 was warmer/much warmer than the 30 year climatology in much of Europe. It was colder than the long term average in Scotland and parts of northern Scandinavia.