Archive for February, 2018
According to ITV weather guru Liam Dutton, the UK experiences a prolonged cold period 66% of the time following a sudden stratospheric warming event. The last time it occurred was January 2013. So happens February was cold and March was the UK’s coldest in 50 years. The time before that? 2009 and our coldest December […]
Article from Capital Weather Gang By Jason Samenow February 14 at 1:18 PM Punishing winds have made life miserable for athletes and spectators at the Winter Olympics. As winds howled to 50 mph in PyeongChang, South Korea, on Wednesday, NPR reported emergency alerts buzzed on mobile phones, debris flung through the air, fences toppled, an […]
As arctic air brings Montana it’s coldest weather of the season (worse likely to come next 10 days), attention turns from -30 to -40 air, -40 to -60 chill to ground blizzards. Havre, MT shivered at -36 but the coldest place in the state appears to have been Mudd Lake with -42, Chinook hit -40. […]
I can’t deny that yesterday’s snow forecast for overnight and this morning was a complete bust at low levels. There was nothing when I had thought there would be a lot. Certainly further north and higher roads further south didn’t escape. Snow disrupts flights at #Inverness Airport, travel on #A9 and #A82 and also shuts […]
We have just witnessed the first true sudden stratospheric warming event (SSWE) since January 2013 with a split in the vortex. One piece has pushed over central Arctic Canada and the other into the Europe-Asia border area. The models went from cold to mild for late February which didn’t coincide with the overall picture. A […]
It’s been another snowy night/morning across much of Scotland including the Central Belt thanks to hefty snow showers blowing in on a cold WNW wind. Milton of Campsie last night. Kilsyth around 5.45am this morning. Lengthy clear spells in between the showers mean icy conditions and a freeze of the snow on the ground with […]
It’s been a wintry week in the French capital with not one but two snowstorms inside a matter of days. The first system dropped 4.7 inches at the official Paris weather station Montsouris. This was the biggest snowfall since 8 December 2010 which also saw 4.7″. The last time Paris received a bigger accumulation than 2010 […]
Yep it’s been snowy in Chicago lately, so much so it’s been record breaking! With 20 below normal air over Montana and 20 above normal in the Southeast, there’s a natural fight in between. This comes in the form of a storm series. With track SW to NE but just south of Chicago, this is […]
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