The UK is losing its feed of warm air from the south, with a cooler night to come as temperatures widely fall down around 3 to 8C early on Wednesday. In a westerly flow, cold fronts continue from the UK eastwards across northern Europe with temperatures falling here too. By Friday, another frontal boundary will have pushed right down through France, Spain, the western Mediterranean, the Alps and Germany allowing cooler air over much of western Europe. By Saturday, this will have swept through Italy and be pestering the Adriatic coast and western Greece.
Meteo France named Storm Claudio on Monday 31st for a low bringing gales along the English Channel on Halloween night. We are still awaiting the first Storm of the season to be named which would be Antoni.
STS Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae (known as Paeng in the Philippines) has brought torrential rain to Luzon and Okinawa Prefecture, the southwestern Japanese Islands. Here 435mm fell in 48 hours, which was a new November record for the tourist resorts. Travel within Japan has only recently gotten going again after lockdown with a new National Travel Discount program encouraging residents to travel around Japan.
PaengPH brought heavy rain to the metropolitan area of Manila and broke rainfall records in the region as it moved westwards. People have died in landslides and flash flooding. The satellite image above shows the long area of cloud over Taiwan, the Japanese Islands and linking back to mainland Japan. The Philippine Area of Responsibility has seen 5 storms in October which is unusual. After PaengPH there was TS Banyan (known as QueeniePH) which was heading towards the southern island of Samal but has now weakened. Nalgae is continuing across the south China Sea/ West Philippine Sea and is forecast to peak near Guangdong and Hong Kong by the 3rd of November. The weather in Hong Kong looks very windy and very wet for the next few days
“Under the combined effect of Nalgae and the northeast monsoon, strong winds are expected to prevail generally over the territory with occasional gales on high ground today… the outer rainbands of Nalgae are affecting the northern part of the South China Sea and the coast of Guangdong. Seas are rough with swells. “Hong Kong Observatory
The weather looks brighter and more settled at the weekend for Hong Kong.
The Atlantic hurricane season has been continuing in a quiet fashion but there is now Tropical Storm Lisa heading towards Belize.
Nov 1st NHC “Tropical Storm and Hurricane Warnings will likely be required for portions of the coasts of Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico this morning.”
Areas with warnings or watches are the north coast of Honduras including the Bay Islands and Guatemala. The NHC warn “the core of the cyclone near the Bay Islands of Honduras by early Wednesday, and across the coast of Belize by late Wednesday” as Lisa strengthens to hurricane status by midweek.
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