Major Cold Shivers Central, Eastern Europe, UK And West Up Next!

Written by Mark Vogan on January 6, 2016 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland, Winter 2015/16 with 0 Comments

Winter has hit central and eastern Europe with a vengeance, the same region which bore the brunt of last summer’s intense heat and drought and of course experienced a warm autumn. This looks to be one of those great turnaround winters.

Much about a week now, temperatures from east Germany north and east have shivered in minus territory with days and nights growing ever colder.

Yesterday’s maximum and minimum temperatures across the continent.

Credit: Tropical Tidbits

Credit: Meteoceil

Cold has been most intense over Scandinavia down into eastern Germany through Poland, Ukraine and of course Russia where temperatures have widely struggled to get much above -8C by day and dropped to between -15 and -25C by night.

This cold is killed with up to 21 perishing in Poland alone.

View of a frozen Warsaw, Poland.

Credit: EPA

There’s grave concern for Ukrainian war victims who’s houses have been destroyed by conflict.

Eastern Ukraine

Photo: NRC/Tatiana Stepykina

Moscow, Russia

Credit: Birgit Schmeitzner

Temperatures this morning dipped close to -40C in northern Finland.

Credit: Matti Huutonen

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West Next?

Given the notorious back and forth of the models, I’m always a bit nervous calling the true cold card when your still talking 7-10 days out but this does look promising and I would prepare for some proper winter weather as we go through next week. How cold and for how long is a tough call but a lot will depend on how much snow we can get. That will determine how cold it gets.

GFS 2m temperature anomaly snap shots.