Archive for 2022
Following a record strong/cold stratospheric polar vortex, major weakening/warming has been ongoing. This warming commenced within the UPPER levels of the stratosphere and has been gradually working it’s way down towards the troposphere. Check out the rise at 10mb Even more striking at 30mb Here is the latest temperature within the LOWER stratosphere! The downward […]
A lack of ‘weather’ during much of the past 12 months likely contributed to a build-up of warmth throughout the North and even wider Atlantic basin and given other external drivers, this aided another very mild winter throughout Europe (see previous article). However, a near record strong mean zonal wind and cold strat-trop polar vortex […]
The first 2.5 months of 2022 is warm across north/west Canada incl Alaska, cool for central Canada, much of the Lower 48, warm for Europe and very warm across north Asia, cool for India and west/north China. Most of Africa and large swathe of South America (esp west, central) is at or below normal. Tropics […]
The ongoing La Nina and warm and cool ocean anomalies within the northern basins have clearly driven the lower tropospheric temperature. Strong warmth within the LT (lower troposphere) has shown up above the abnormally warm N Pacific and Atlantic as well as over much of northern Eurasia with no warming above the entire equatorial belt […]
As February and meteorological winter 2021-22 has come to a close, it’ll likely be remembered for it’s disappointing lack of any real winter. Winter’s opening month brought all but a tease of snow and cold during December with hopes held high only to see ‘winter’ stay mainly over the continent. After a record warm New […]
In October 2009 I commenced my commercial driving career at Graham’s Dairy (Glasgow) after passing my class 2 lorry test the previous April. My first winter and my first big test behind the wheel came fast with the ‘infamous’ winter of 2009-10. Frequent snowfall and persistently low temperatures were common with my lowest dash temperature […]
From Wikipedia Geography Sapporo is a city located in the southwest part of Ishikari Plain and the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, a tributary stream of the Ishikari River.[15] It is part of Ishikari Subprefecture. Roadways in the urban district are laid to make a grid plan. The western and southern parts of Sapporo are occupied by a number of […]
I’m sure for folks living in the UK and much of Europe, after what has been a mild and snowless winter, most won’t be thinking about the title above. It’s always important to keep in mind that what goes on in your own back yard doesn’t necessarily reflect the bigger picture. The below temperature anomaly […]
Last weekend, Scotland was hit by a double whammy of Storm Malik followed speedily by Storm Corrie. Here's some of the top wind speeds recorded during our extreme weekend with #StormMalik and #StormCorrie. Looks like a record wind speed for January in Inverbervie. pic.twitter.com/2h2Ayispyk — Sean Batty (@SeanBattyTV) January 31, 2022 Why was #StormCorrie so […]
Winter 2021-22 So Far! Back in July I began to build my 2021-22 winter forecast. I’ve spent many an hour studying and taking into consideration ALL the global and regional parameters, players and drivers currently in place at the time and came up the an eventual forecast at the beginning of December. Based on my […]
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