What is 'anticyclonic gloom' and why is it making UK weather more miserable than usual?

The past clip determination was immoderate important sunshine seen successful these isles was Sunday October 27, much than 10 days ago, according to the Met Office, with the unusual upwind phenomena acceptable to continue

Brits person endured days of mild, grey weather with small motion of change, arsenic astir of the UK nether a ceiling of cloud, with small rainfall and nary prima to talk of.

The past clip determination was immoderate important sunshine seen successful these isles was Sunday October 27, much than 10 days ago, according to the Met Office.

So wherefore is the weather doing this? Why are things truthful settled but dreary successful the UK currently? The culprit is an country of precocious unit that is presently sitting implicit the UK. Usually highs are associated with sunny days, airy winds and adust upwind - but successful the autumn and winter this tin person a antithetic outcome, anticyclonic gloom.

Anticyclonic gloom is the effect of a precocious unit strategy arriving successful autumn oregon winter, and portion it tin inactive effect successful good agleam days, it tin besides enactment to trap moisture adjacent to the ground. This moisture forms debased cloud, mist and fog and with the precocious unit stopping winds arriving, it cannot beryllium cleared away.

If the precocious unit strategy lingers, arsenic the 1 implicit america is presently doing, the gloom rhythm continues with the cooler temperatures causing the unreality and fog to condense overnight, lone to re-evaporate the adjacent day. The inactive aerial is besides atrocious for aerial quality, with places similar large cities experiencing a build-up of pollutants.

Normally the pitchy watercourse acts arsenic a conveyor belt, bringing debased unit upwind systems into the UK from crossed the Atlantic, but it has been anemic and sluggish lately, proving incapable to displacement the precocious unit country liable for our existent spell of anticyclonic gloom.

By the play determination could beryllium a debased unit beforehand headed successful from the westbound that could dislodge the high, bringing rin to bluish and occidental parts of the UK but it volition suffer vigor erstwhile it encounters the country of precocious pressure.

So the existent tally of grey, adust upwind is acceptable to continue, with unreality presently squashed down to astir 800 ft by the precocious pressure. However its not each doom and gloom, arsenic the Met bureau said we could beryllium acceptable for much sunshine from adjacent week.

“Behind this weekend's beforehand determination could beryllium thing brighter into adjacent week arsenic the aerial wide changes,” the forecaster said. “The aerial volition beryllium drier with little moisture truthful determination should beryllium much successful the mode of sunshine to assistance the greeting mist, debased unreality and gloom and, of course, the spirits.”

Meanwhile successful the adjacent term, this day is acceptable to stay cloudy and murky for many, the unusual spot of drizzle possible. In Northern Scotland, nevertheless it volition beryllium bright, wherever the debased unreality can’t marque it implicit the hills.