WeatherFanatics: Warmth to Continue This Week for UK, Western Europe

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Warmth to Continue This Week for UK, Western Europe

By Eric Leister, Meteorologist

March 12,2014; 7:15PM,EDT

The mild and dry weather felt across the United Kingdom and western Europe the past several days will continue through the upcoming weekend.
Following months of stormy weather, high pressure brought this stretch of unseasonable warmth and plenty of sunshine to the United Kingdom, Ireland and western Europe.
A wet February for much of the U.K. came on the heels of record-setting rainfall earlier this winter. In the U.K., December and January were the wettest on record.
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This area of high pressure will remain centered over northern Europe through Friday before shifting west of Ireland and the United Kingdom on Friday. The area of high pressure is then expected to expand back eastward over western Europe this weekend and early next week.

The Eiffel Tower rises from behind blossoming flowers and trees in Paris, France, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
Temperatures reached 19 C (67 F) in London on Sunday while Paris topped out at 21 C (70 F). Depsite cooler temperatures on Monday and Tuesday, high temperatures are expected to be at least 5 degrees C (10 degrees F) above normal across much of the region into the weekend.
Along with the unseasonable warmth, skies will be partly to mostly sunny each day through Friday.
A frontal boundary is expected to pass east of the United Kingdom and France this weekend, bringing a shot of much colder air and gusty winds from Scandinavia through northern Europe. However, high pressure will likely continue to provide dry conditions along with unseasonable warmth to western Europe.

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