{"id":20400,"date":"2026-02-10T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20400"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:04:09","slug":"uk-weather-one-hundred-flood-warnings-with-weather-stuck-in-a-rut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20400","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: One hundred flood warnings with weather &#8216;stuck in a rut&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Low-pressure weather systems have been stalling across the UK and Western Europe in general, leading to days of rain and cloudy skies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been caused by a large area of high pressure being stuck across Scandinavia and acting like a road-block preventing weather systems from moving eastward as we&#8217;d normally see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is a &#8220;blocked&#8221; weather pattern and, while fairly common, it has been notable because of its consequences on the UK so far this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blocked weather patterns can take on slightly different forms depending on where exactly large areas of high pressure can become stuck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For example, if the blocked area of high pressure happens to be situated over the UK, it stops rain-bearing weather systems from arriving and gives us a prolonged dry spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the summer, it can lead to droughts but also heatwaves as hot air is drawn in from the south-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the winter, it can make our weather dry, sunny and cold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, very small changes in position can make the difference.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the blocking high was just to the north of the UK in winter, it allows very cold air from north-east Europe to arrive, resulting in similar conditions to the infamous &#8220;Beast from the East&#8221; in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#weather #flood #warnings #weather #stuck #rut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-pressure weather systems h&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}