Northwes Europe May started with heat wave that set a temperature reord in London while more warm and dry weather is set to dominate the region this month. The Iberian Peninsula could escape some of te warmest temperatures data from Copernicus and Atmospheric G show. Brief warm periods in early and mid-May expected but the region shpuld see cooler-than-normal conditions for much of the month.
Long-term forecast model from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather shoe average temperatures could stay a couple of degrees below the norm across Southern Europe and the Miditerranean.
But MetDesk meteorologist Ben Davis sees signs of unseasonably warm weather in the Mediterranean and southeast building in late May and early June. Those conditions could support a heat wave and up-tick in storms in Western Europe
SOURCE: Bloomberg, ECMWF
