Archive for January, 2019

Heavy snow blankets Cornish beaches after UK shivers coldest night since 2012

Written by on January 31, 2019 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Heavy snow blankets Cornish beaches after UK shivers coldest night since 2012

While it’s remained clear with pockets of freezing fog over the Northern UK, snow has been spreading eastwards through today from Cornwall to Kent and points as far north as Birmingham courtesy of the next Atlantic low moving in. The snow band shall drop 2-4cm widely over south and southeast England tonight, locally 10cm for […]

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Tonight should be UK’s coldest of winter

Written by on January 30, 2019 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Tonight should be UK’s coldest of winter

The snow we’ve seen fall widely across the UK and Ireland in recent days has produced this false colour image from space below. The red of course distinguishing snow from cloud. Though pretty sparse for many, there’s still a large enough coverage of this highly reflective surface in which maximum heat loss into space can […]

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Greatest Coldwave In A Generation Moves Into Upper Midwest

Written by on January 29, 2019 in United States of America with 0 Comments
Greatest Coldwave In A Generation Moves Into Upper Midwest

In my 10 years of weather blogging/forecasting and 20 years of of weather study, the incoming ‘Super Arctic Outbreak 2019’ will be the greatest of all cold waves, comfortably shivering past 2014 and even 2004 and is sure to be one of my greatest weather events I’ve watched unfold in my lifetime. I’ve forecasted and […]

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England, Wales likely to see bulk of this week’s snow

Written by on January 28, 2019 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
England, Wales likely to see bulk of this week’s snow

By purely looking at the UK snow depth/cover at the end of each day from tomorrow through Friday, the focus of snow according to the latest run of the GFS is over the Scottish Highlands/Southern Uplands, N Pennines, Midlands and much of Wales away from the coast. Scotland will see snow from an incoming front […]

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Snow melts only to return a few days later as winter fights to gain ground!

Written by on January 27, 2019 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Snow melts only to return a few days later as winter fights to gain ground!

We’ve said good bye to the mild and hello to the polar maritime once again. The polar maritime air will be whisling down from the north throughout today with winds gusting 40-50 mph widely. This reintroduces a tricky rain, sleet and snow scenario as the cold air is mixed with ocean air. As you can […]

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US February 2019 Outlook (Super Cold Outbreak to end January?)

Written by on January 24, 2019 in United States of America with 0 Comments
US February 2019 Outlook (Super Cold Outbreak to end January?)

January started mild and shall end on an extremely cold note. As expected, we are now seeing the effects of the Sudden Stratospheric Warming which peaked at Christmas and split of the polar vortex around January 2nd. The cold shot which swept through the Great Lakes bringing two straight -40F morning’s to Northern Minnesota and […]

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Europe February 2019 Outlook

Written by on January 24, 2019 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Europe February 2019 Outlook

Up until the 20th, January, like December has been tame. Milder than expected? Yes because I believed the month would turn and turn severe. We remain in a westerly driven pattern and that was not expected by this stage, especially when taking into account the sudden stratospheric warming event which occurred around Christmas with a […]

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Glasgow, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam see 1st snow but why no North Atlantic/Greenland block? Blame the MJO!

Written by on January 22, 2019 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
Glasgow, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam see 1st snow but why no North Atlantic/Greenland block? Blame the MJO!

Many parts of Scotland including myself woke this morning to the first blanket of snow ahead of potentially the coldest night of winter tonight. However, many may be asking, what happened to the ‘beast from the east’ or Greenland block? After all our weather continues to come in from the west. Instead of this… We’ve […]

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ARCTIC FRONT plummets DC to Boston temps some 40-50F within 12-18 hours!

Written by on January 21, 2019 in United States of America with 0 Comments
ARCTIC FRONT plummets DC to Boston temps some 40-50F within 12-18 hours!

From almost spring-like mildness yesterday along the Eastern Seaboard… Upper 40s NYC, 55 Cape Cod and Atlantic City, 56 DC, 50 Philly… To wind, rain, sleet, freezing rain and snow! Then a speedy 40-50 degree drop in temperature, most of which came within 12 hours. The 24 hour temperature change, valid at 4 a.m. CST, […]

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A ‘seasonable’ January chill: Assessing the UK snow threat this week

Written by on January 21, 2019 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland with 0 Comments
A ‘seasonable’ January chill: Assessing the UK snow threat this week

Well it’s safe to say the cold which was expected to intensify this week into the upcoming weekend is not going to show and in fact it turns milder not colder by Friday. On a plus, it’s a temporary push of mild. The reason? That storm system exiting Canada has not forced sharp height rises […]

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