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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 14h

The jet stream heading N by the weekend

Higher pressure taking hold

=drier/more settled weather

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 15h

The harvest supermoon 🌚 is now rising in the ENE sky..more info here...

www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/ho...

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 18h

The 10th named storm of the tropical Atlantic season forms
#Jerry

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 1d

One to 👀

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 1d

If at first you don't succeed

High pressure is trying to settle the weather down and has had a good attempt across the S of the UK

As expected though it's through the second half of the week and into the weekend that a more successful wider spread effort takes place for the UK

Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 1d

High pressure will build across the UK this week, eventually providing many of us with calm conditions

But calm doesn't automatically mean sunny, as there could often be large amounts of cloud around ☁️

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 1d

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 1d

Contrails are a naturally occurring phenomena of course, and have been since the invention of aircraft

During wartime military aircraft pilots have even used them to mask their bombing attacks..as in 1944 below..

go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AO...

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 1d

The #spv stratospheric polar vortex is incredibly weak at the moment

EQBO known to slow 🐌 its W'ly spin up during the Autumn

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 1d

Seems to be a thing with tropical storms interacting with one another at the moment

Humberto and Imelda last week in the N Atlantic

Now perhaps Octave and Priscilla in the E N Pacific

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 2d

In the wake of #StormAmy (stage right), a build in pressure from the southwest

However, further weather fronts gathering to the N/NW, so still some rain to come next few days before a more notable rise in pressure later this coming week..

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 2d

Here in S Devon too..

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 2d

Will pass this on to our record monitoring team

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 2d

'Up up and away'

A gradual build in pressure on the way...

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 3d

At one point earlier today there were 102,000 power outages across Scotland and 22,000 across Northern Ireland
#StormAmy

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 3d

www.netweather.tv/live-weather...

Today's Weather - Daily highs and lows - Netweather

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 3d

Changes afoot next 7 days

Low pressure➡️high pressure

Wet and very windy➡️mostly dry, settled with light winds and a fog risk

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 3d

Lots of wind and rain warnings remain in force associated with #StormAmy today into tomorrow morning

Stay #weatheraware
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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 4d

Appears #StormAmy bottomed out at 944hpa

96mph Tiree equalled station record wind gust speed

92mph Magilligan a new October wind gust record for N Ireland

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 4d

As per X,
Provisionally a new October low pressure record for the UK...

x.com/metoffice/st...

Met Office on X: "Storm Amy broke records overnight - Baltasound hit 947.9 hPa, provisionally the lowest October pressure ever recorded at a UK land station, beating Muckle Flugga’s 950.9 hPa in 1988. https://t.co/X5kO1DfI45" / X

Storm Amy broke records overnight - Baltasound hit 947.9 hPa, provisionally the lowest October pressure ever recorded at a UK land station, beating Muckle Flugga’s 950.9 hPa in 1988. https://t.co/X5kO1DfI45

x.com

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 4d

A whopping 96mph gust at Tiree this evening..higher over high ground..

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 4d

#StormAmy accompanied by warm humid (high dew point) air, now being replaced by fresher conditions as the cold front sweeps east across England and Wales

As expected line convection on front

Vigorous wrap around occlusion maintaining squally, showery conditions in the north

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 4d

Big wind gusts being recorded in the N now..here in km/h..

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 4d

Just for reference, the lowest mean sea level pressure on record for the UK in October is 950.9hpa recorded at Muckle Flugga, Shetland on 6.10.1988

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 4d

#StormAmy developing rapidly now
Dry air getting wrapped into the system in the cold air and hints of a cloud hook tip T..notice the squeeze in the isobars associated with it 🌬

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 4d

Winds gusting 75mph now Belmullet..

www.met.ie/latest-repor...

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