Archive for December, 2016
The models remain consistent at bringing the return of a -NAO just after the turn of the new year with a major ridge setting up west of Ireland while arctic air pours into Europe from the east. Check out the GFS snow forecast through the next 10 days! As well as favouring colder times, snow chances […]
It’s been and continues to be an active Pacific-North America pattern and the atmospheric dynamics are changing with the season. Of course eastern Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota just got hit by a record Christmas Day blizzard, their 2nd blizzard in 2 weeks! Bismarck is seen it’s snowiest season to date thanks to the back […]
It was a Christmas weekend to remember across Scotland with not one but two storms spanning from early Christmas Eve to late Boxing Day with low level 80+ mph/high level 120+mph wind gusts each day, 50ft waves out at sea and the wild swings in temperature. Storm Barbara brought storm-force conditions on land but out at sea, her worst was […]
In 1984, the charitable supergroup Band Aid sang: “There won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time.” In fact, it does snow in Africa at high elevations. Kilimanjaro has long been crowned by a cap of snow and ice, though it has been shrinking. Skiiers travel for natural and manufactured snow in the Atlas Mountains […]
Thanks to a large and powerful storm, Christmas Day will be a day of extremes with blizzard conditions over the Dakotas while record warmth, flooding rain and tornadoes is expected across the South. Record warmth is highly likely with southerly winds ahead of the storm’s cold front. NEXT POST/VIDEO WILL BE TUESDAY 27 DECEMBER. I […]
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