>2 feet of snow and 100 mph winds roar across Colorado and America West

Written by Mark Vogan on November 13, 2011 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments

In Today’s Blog

Latest UK-Europe Discussion @ #UK-EUROPE
Next batch of heavy rain and wind swings through Portugal & Spain, mild from France through UK and low countries, cooling over Scandinavia, cold in the east (Includes Video)

Latest US Discussion @ #UNITED STATES
Very mild air expands east from Rockies this week, wet next few days from Ohio Valley to East Coast

Latest Weather from India-Sub-Continent @ #INDIA-SUB CONT
Latest Indian-Sub Continental Weather News from Rajesh Kapadia

Now Available @ #LONG RANGE!
Mark Vogan’s Official 2011-2012 United Kingdom & Europe Winter Forecast

Today’s Weather Headlines

BREAKING WEATHER NEWS
NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation) heading VERY POSITIVE and likely will remain that way through rest of month (see below and #UK-EUROPE)…Central/eastern US face a temperature roaster coaster ride this week (see #UNITED STATES tab for details)

US Latest

2 feet of snow and 115 mph winds roar across Colorado and West

Peak Wind Gusts as of Early Sunday Morning:

-Berthoud Pass: 113 mph -Pikes Peak: 109 mph
-Cottonwood Pass: 91 mph
-3 mi. south-southwest of Air Force Academy: 86 mph
-Lyons: 84 mph

Colorado Blizzard Unleashes Snow, 100-mph Winds
ACCUWEATHER.COM

Severe Storm Outbreak to Target Texas
ACCUWEATHER.COM

Huge Alaska Storm Leaves Widespread Damage
THE WEATHER CHANNEL

A Truly Unusual Tornado
THE WEATHER CHANNEL

Epic 12,225 miles American Road Trip captured in 5 minutes timelapse, amazing!

Canada Latest

Canada growing colder this week with clipper set to bring swath of snow from Rockies to Lakes

A clipper system through this week looks set to bring a swath of snow from the BC Rockies southeastwards spreading a sizeable band of fresh snow across the Prairies towards the Great Lakes and possibly even as far east as the Maritimes. As well as this swath of snow, a building Arctic air mass will bleed across much of Canada bringing the coldest air of the season with possible lows of -15 to -20C for cities such as Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Regina possibly even Winnipeg later this week and into the weekend. Northern and central Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario may see some -25 to -30C readings.

Only four times in Edmonton, Alberta history have they not seen the first snows in September and October….

Snow-less season drifts into record books
EDMONTON JOURNAL

Maritimers clean up after big storm
CTV ATLANTIC

Europe Latest

NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation) heading VERY POSITIVE and likely will remain that way through rest of month

As you can see from the below chart, the NAO has shooting through the roof which suggests to me that here in the UK as well as over to the low countries and France, we are less likely to see the turn to major cold and snow by the later of November as many forecasters have predicted. Of course this doesn’t mean it deffinately won’t happen, heck the NAO may even flip negative, however, the pattern overall continues favouring cold more to the east of Europe which will shift westward, particularly into December as then a negative NAO starts to kick in and this would allow a PERSISTENT locked down trough of cold (like what eastern Europe is seeing now) for about 3-4 weeks by around December 15th onwards. WATCH OUT UK AND WESTERN EUROPE, WE HAVE PLENTY OF COLD AND SNOW TO COME IN JUST OVER ONE MONTH FROM NOW!