Archive for January, 2018
This winter has been driven by a +NAO, -AO which has kept things interesting with snow and cold as well as spells of mild. The NAO appears to remain negative which results in the continuation of a fluid Atlantic pattern. We’ve seen a pick up in storm activity within the last 10 days resulting in […]
Unlike the bombardment of Pacific systems, record rain and snow this time last year, it’s been a very different winter for the West this year thanks to the persistency of high pressure. Sierra snow depth last year vs. this year. https://t.co/HoJmcSuVcm pic.twitter.com/CQGNgyCucc — Mike McPhate (@mmcphate) January 24, 2018 California’s ice box was buried last […]
Back on Monday Tokyo was hit by up to 9 inches of snow making it their biggest snowfall since 2014 while FEET of snow continues to pile into the central Alps west of the city due to ongoing arctic winds blowing across the Sea of Japan. Tokyo hit by heaviest snow since 2014 https://t.co/9Rch5Ly7Dl pic.twitter.com/zzSCUrnOWu […]
The deep Atlantic low responsible for bringing flooding rain, 85 mph winds to the UK and record warmth to parts of eastern Spain has also produced a record warm January day in Denmark. On Wednesday afternoon, the thermometer surpassed the previous Danish January record of 12.4C set in 2005 with a new peak of 12.9C […]
Up until yesterday, the Minneapolis snow season 2017-18 has been pathetic with the biggest snowstorm being just over 3 inches. Then came yesterday’s 12.4 inch dump. This was the biggest single day snow for the city in 7 years. 12.4" at MSP yesterday – as far as I can tell it was the greatest single-day […]
Courtesy of a deep Atlantic low, Western Europe is back in the milder SW flow. Recent days has seen the Spanish Costas enjoy unusual January warmth of mid to upper 20s (C). Sunday saw Valencia soar to 26.4C, making for the hottest January day on record. The following day Valencia reached an even higher 26.6C […]
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