January started mild and shall end on an extremely cold note. As expected, we are now seeing the effects of the Sudden Stratospheric Warming which peaked at Christmas and split of the polar vortex around January 2nd. The cold shot which swept through the Great Lakes bringing two straight -40F morning’s to Northern Minnesota and […]
Up until the 20th, January, like December has been tame. Milder than expected? Yes because I believed the month would turn and turn severe. We remain in a westerly driven pattern and that was not expected by this stage, especially when taking into account the sudden stratospheric warming event which occurred around Christmas with a […]
After a cold October and November for much of the Lower 48, December started off on a similarly cold note with the aid of a retrograding blocking high from the Canadian Archipelago to Alaska. However, as you can see from the below 30 day animation, around the 10th saw a 360 flip with ridge replaced […]
The month of December has panned out pretty much as expected, predominantly mild, often wet and driven by a mainly +AO/NAO. In the 30 day animation below, you can see the initial blocking then return to negative heights across much of the arctic (+AO) which has led to mild over the continents but note the […]
From earliest snow as far south as Galveston, TX to coldest Thanksgiving on record for parts of the Northeast, November 2018 will go down as one of the coldest in US history. Month so far. There are a couple of contributors to such a chilly November. A cold September for much of Canada and building […]
Yep, it’s pretty much the opposite of what I had for this month. Widespread sunshine and southwest winds have propelled ... Read More
Bitter Siberian air swept across Japan’s northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido last weekend. So cold, it was dubbed the coldest air ... Read More
I will admit when wrong and unfortunately my nagging fear from the beginning came true. In my winter forecast I ... Read More
At the peak of the polar vortex invasion of 2019, much of Minnesota endured it’s coldest conditions since 1996 while ... Read More
Storm Erik rapidly deepened as he speedily crossed the Atlantic. With a pressure drop of 40mb within the last 24 ... Read More
It’s been a tough summer across Australia but the extremes have turned from intense heat to intense rainfall. An unprecedented ... Read More
I feel my cold, blocky winter projections keep getting pushed back and so therefore my forecast has busted some. Sure ... Read More
Article from NWS Duluth In late January 2019, a historic arctic outbreak brought bitterly cold wind chills and record-breaking cold ... Read More
It’s been quite the month for Moline, Illinois setting not one but two very significant weather records. Situated on a ... Read More
After dipping to -14.4C yesterday morning, Scotland and UK’s coldest since 2012 and only warming to -6.2C, the thermometer took ... Read More
January started mild and shall end on an extremely cold note. As expected, we are now seeing the effects of the Sudden Stratospheric Warming which peaked at Christmas and split of the polar vortex around January 2nd. The cold shot which swept through the Great Lakes bringing two straight -40F morning’s to Northern Minnesota and […]
Up until the 20th, January, like December has been tame. Milder than expected? Yes because I believed the month would turn and turn severe. We remain in a westerly driven pattern and that was not expected by this stage, especially when taking into account the sudden stratospheric warming event which occurred around Christmas with a […]
Yep, it’s pretty much the opposite of what I had for this month. Widespread sunshine and southwest winds have propelled ... Read More
I will admit when wrong and unfortunately my nagging fear from the beginning came true. In my winter forecast I ... Read More
Storm Erik rapidly deepened as he speedily crossed the Atlantic. With a pressure drop of 40mb within the last 24 ... Read More
I feel my cold, blocky winter projections keep getting pushed back and so therefore my forecast has busted some. Sure ... Read More
After dipping to -14.4C yesterday morning, Scotland and UK’s coldest since 2012 and only warming to -6.2C, the thermometer took ... Read More
While it’s remained clear with pockets of freezing fog over the Northern UK, snow has been spreading eastwards through today ... Read More
The snow we’ve seen fall widely across the UK and Ireland in recent days has produced this false colour image ... Read More
By purely looking at the UK snow depth/cover at the end of each day from tomorrow through Friday, the focus ... Read More
We’ve said good bye to the mild and hello to the polar maritime once again. The polar maritime air will ... Read More
Up until the 20th, January, like December has been tame. Milder than expected? Yes because I believed the month would ... Read More
At the peak of the polar vortex invasion of 2019, much of Minnesota endured it’s coldest conditions since 1996 while
Article from NWS Duluth In late January 2019, a historic arctic outbreak brought bitterly cold wind chills and record-breaking cold
It’s been quite the month for Moline, Illinois setting not one but two very significant weather records. Situated on a
In my 10 years of weather blogging/forecasting and 20 years of of weather study, the incoming ‘Super Arctic Outbreak 2019’
January started mild and shall end on an extremely cold note. As expected, we are now seeing the effects of
From almost spring-like mildness yesterday along the Eastern Seaboard… Upper 40s NYC, 55 Cape Cod and Atlantic City, 56 DC,
The strongest storm of the winter has plowed into California bringing a widespread 3-6 inches of rain from north to
A major cross country snow system during the past weekend produced record snow from St Louis to DC and this
Article from wunderground.com Brian Donegan Published: December 28, 2018 Snow was not in the forecast, which isn’t surprising given the
Below article from wunderground.com Jonathan Erdman Published: January 3, 2019 After topping the record, it would tack on almost 5
Yep, it’s pretty much the opposite of what I had for this month. Widespread sunshine and southwest winds have propelled ... Read More
I will admit when wrong and unfortunately my nagging fear from the beginning came true. In my winter forecast I ... Read More
Storm Erik rapidly deepened as he speedily crossed the Atlantic. With a pressure drop of 40mb within the last 24 ... Read More
I feel my cold, blocky winter projections keep getting pushed back and so therefore my forecast has busted some. Sure ... Read More
After dipping to -14.4C yesterday morning, Scotland and UK’s coldest since 2012 and only warming to -6.2C, the thermometer took ... Read More
While it’s remained clear with pockets of freezing fog over the Northern UK, snow has been spreading eastwards through today ... Read More
The snow we’ve seen fall widely across the UK and Ireland in recent days has produced this false colour image ... Read More
By purely looking at the UK snow depth/cover at the end of each day from tomorrow through Friday, the focus ... Read More
We’ve said good bye to the mild and hello to the polar maritime once again. The polar maritime air will ... Read More
Up until the 20th, January, like December has been tame. Milder than expected? Yes because I believed the month would ... Read More
Bitter Siberian air swept across Japan’s northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido last weekend. So cold, it was dubbed the coldest air ... Read More
It’s been a tough summer across Australia but the extremes have turned from intense heat to intense rainfall. An unprecedented ... Read More
It would seem summers have been on a cooling trend over Greenland in recent summers. In 2017, a new July ... Read More
With the development of Vicente and Willa, the eastern Pacific hurricane season of 2018 has entered the record books as ... Read More
It was one of those oddities of the 2018 season, you get them now and again where they go one ... Read More
According to the Met Office, the central pressure within Storm Callum dropped from 986 to 938mb within 24 hours. That ... Read More
At 12.30pm CT, Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach, FL as a top end Cat 4 hurricane packing sustained ... Read More
Despite encountering shear, some dry air and even the crossing of a cool ocean eddy, Michael has continued to strengthen. ... Read More
Back on Friday I posted on the CAG (Central American Gyre) and the potential for development. Yesterday we had Tropical ... Read More
A broad circulation of disorganized thunderstorms is affecting much of Central America from Pacific to Atlantic. This is known as ... Read More
Yep, it’s pretty much the opposite of what I had for this month. Widespread sunshine and southwest winds have propelled ... Read More
Bitter Siberian air swept across Japan’s northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido last weekend. So cold, it was dubbed the coldest air ... Read More
I will admit when wrong and unfortunately my nagging fear from the beginning came true. In my winter forecast I ... Read More
At the peak of the polar vortex invasion of 2019, much of Minnesota endured it’s coldest conditions since 1996 while ... Read More
Storm Erik rapidly deepened as he speedily crossed the Atlantic. With a pressure drop of 40mb within the last 24 ... Read More
It’s been a tough summer across Australia but the extremes have turned from intense heat to intense rainfall. An unprecedented ... Read More
I feel my cold, blocky winter projections keep getting pushed back and so therefore my forecast has busted some. Sure ... Read More
Article from NWS Duluth In late January 2019, a historic arctic outbreak brought bitterly cold wind chills and record-breaking cold ... Read More
It’s been quite the month for Moline, Illinois setting not one but two very significant weather records. Situated on a ... Read More
After dipping to -14.4C yesterday morning, Scotland and UK’s coldest since 2012 and only warming to -6.2C, the thermometer took ... Read More
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