Wilma Gives UK Record Warmth

[PhillyWX]

http://philadelphiaweather.blogspot.com/2005/10/wilma-gives-uk-record-warmth.html

As the remnants of Hurricane Wilma traversed across the Atlantic, the circulation around the low pressure system pumped warm air up from the Sahara, Spain, and Portugal into the United Kingdom.

Temperatures into the 70's greeted those in Wales on Thursday. In fact, it was the warmest October 27th on record in the United Kingdom (115 years of record keeping). This quote seemed a bit odd for October, though:

"It's nice but we have to work," said Renata Slisz, manager of a sandwich shop in London. "It might be a disaster because we don't have an air-conditioner."

The frontal band with Wilma's remnants passed through the UK on Friday and temperatures are starting to cool down somewhat, back into the 50's in the NW of Scotland.

[WxGuy1]

It's only in the 70s and they need an air-conditioner? LOL

[PhillyWX]

It's only in the 70s and they need an air-conditioner? LOL

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory ... /story.htm

That's the article where it came from (I THINK it's a Reuters write-up)...

[HenkL]

This is not due to ex-Wilma, while she is in the middle of the ocean today.
For days now there is as strong high on the Euro continent, and a deep through on the eastern Atlantic associated with some normal extratropical lows. Southern winds with mild temperatures are blowing to western Europe. Over here in the Netherlands there were high temperature records in many places.

[PhillyWX]

I'm not so sure about that. Wima's energy is involved with the strengthening of that low off of the UK. I've been watching satellite pictures the last couple of days and you see a blob of energy shoot across the Atlantic from Wilma as it morphed into an Extratropical cyclone off of Nova Scotia. That blob raced eastward across the Atlantic and interacted with that front that crossed the UK. The low pressure that formed off of the US East Coast was a separate entity from Wilma and remained as such, even though it did take in moisture from Wilma while developing off of the US East Coast.

http://weather.unisys.com/archive/sat_ir/0510/

Go here and check the satellite images from 10/26 on. Wilma, more or less, has her energy zapped into that front that crossed the UK.

http://wgntv.trb.com/news/weather/weblog/wgnweather/archives/SM102805FRI.jpg

This map is from a pretty good met in the US, Tom Skilling, who is also claiming that Wilma is involved with the weather in the UK.

[rainydaze]

Funny thing is I grew up in Florida and when it gets to 70 degrees here....I need a heater

[P.K.]

I meant to post this earlier, lol.

Temps reached 20.6C here yesterday but temps up to 22C (unofficialy) were recorded elsewhere. Yesterday was the warmest 27th Oct on record. - Been a more sensible 17.4C today.

Wilma is still out in the mid Atlantic, see http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/de/wetter/maps/anabwkna.gif, but the following the 250hPa steamlines it was likely to be helping with yesterday's high temperatures.

BBC report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4381480.stm

(In fact I wrote this post about 9 hours ago but never got round to posting it )

Edit - Not a great idea to display that picture directly on the forum given they have to sell the names to keep going.