Tag: wind
Well I took my first trip up Cairngorm Mountain yesterday. Leaving the house at 5.30am I drove up the A9 exiting at Aviemore and Coylumbridge and reached the car park at the base of Cairn Gorm around 8.30am. When leaving the car, skies were part cloudy, air temp +3C with even sunshine peeking through but during the climb, […]
We are of course in a very active pattern right now over Western Europe with a storm producing powerhouse jet stream tearing across the Atlantic while high pressure remains in control over eastern Europe. That setup means the wave of lows will continue with the latest pushing through tonight. This pattern as explained in previous posts is […]
The Atlantic storm as expected, struck overnight packing damaging winds with gusts exceeding 100 mph as well as producing flooding rains, even snow. Throughout today, a secondary front with reinforcing cold air brought snow to reasonably low levels as far south as Wales and the Midlands and this will continue progressing south tonight. Much of Northern Ireland […]
We’re in the midst of a very active, even hyper active pattern over Western Europe these days with +NAO/AO which is supporting a N Atlantic trough/Europe ridge with huge temperature difference which is producing a 200+mph jet stream. The atmospheric environment is perfect for extremely deep low pressure development through Christmas. Unfortunately Ireland and the UK are bearing the […]
[warning]MORE HEAVY RAIN SWEEPS ACROSS SOUTHERN ENGLAND AND WALES TONIGHT LIKELY BRINGING MORE FLOODING. THIS FRONT STALLS OVER NORTHERN IRELAND, CENTRAL, SOUTHERN SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN ENGLAND WHERE 1-2″ MAY FALL[/warning] After a fairly pleasant Thursday across much of the northern Rep, Northern Ireland and much of the UK, the wind and rain is coming and is already impacting southern […]
Yesterday we saw an area of disturbed weather to the west of Central America become a depression and now during the overnight hours, the depression has intensified into Tropical Storm Carlotta. This system is currently supporting 45 mph winds and moving NW at around 9 mph. With conducive conditions of both warm waters and a low sheared atmosphere as well […]
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