Winter 2016/17
Excerpt from wunderground A truly wild night in the high Sierra Two high-elevation weather stations at California’s Squaw Valley resort experienced incredible winds on Monday night as the core of the jet stream associated with the atmospheric river came through, together with localized wind acceleration from a low-level jet encountering the Sierra crest. (Thanks to […]
We definitely have a wintry flavour in our weather as we say fair well to meteorological winter 2016-17 with ice, frost and wintry showers, particularly across Northern parts of the UK. Yesterday morning saw the somewhat ‘surprise’ snowfall over the Highlands. Boat of Garten near Aviemore As for this morning it was Southern Scotland’s turn. Newton Stewart, […]
Remember the ridiculously ‘hot’ March 2012, well I guess we’re now witnessing it in February 2017. The cold of December seems a distant memory as warmth has essentially overwhelmed the pattern since the turn of the New Year. Oh, to make this month even weirder, let’s not forget this from just 10 days ago up in Maine! 3 ‘weather […]
The North Atlantic is a highly turbulent, wild place these days with a huge storm circulation producing widespread hurricane-force winds and seas stacked 40-50ft igh. Hurricane-force winds have been battering the Greenland and Iceland coasts for the last few days. As of this writing, Summit Camp, central Greenland is under whiteout conditions as a once sub-940mb weather bomb passes […]
Following ‘years’ of drought, California is finally clawing it’s way out from the worst drought in a generation. From the turn of the year it’s been one storm after the other thanks to a highly active Pacific jet and pineapple express pattern. 10 ‘atmospheric rivers’ in the last 6 weeks has wiped out the drought for much […]
By Pam Wright Feb 23 2017 12:00 AM EST weather.com Story Highlights Dust from the Sahara Desert was swept up into a low-pressure system over north Africa on Monday before making its way toward Europe. In Spain’s Sierra Nevada, snow falling on ski slopes had a brownish color. The dust will move further east toward […]
Storm Doris, beautiful from space but a headache on the ground. In the words of Anthony Sagliani (Meteorological Operations Manager at Earth Networks), Doris is an absolute classic Shapiro-Keyser cyclone. A true weather bomb as she undergoes rapid cyclogenesis over the UK with an impressive 34mb pressure drop within 24 hours. With a very distinct mild southern and cold […]
With the exceptions of a significant cold spell during early/mid December, it’s been a warm winter from Alaska to Florida. The only exception being the Northwest where both December and January were cold or very cold. Really from the Rockies to Atlantic Ocean, the anomaly maps are solid red and may well have witnessed the warmest winter on record […]
After a cold central and southern Europe January, it’s turned considerably milder during February. As you can see from the below January temp anomaly map, the core of coldest was on the Balkan Peninsula where Serbia and Hungary witnessed their coldest Jan in some 50 years, the coldest in 20 years for France. For the […]
By Jonathan Belles Feb 15 2017 12:00 AM EST weather.com Story Highlights Temperatures dropped more than 60 degrees from all-time February record highs. Snow fell across the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma three days after the record heat. Some Oklahomans experienced a temperature drop from all-time February record highs to near freezing in three days earlier […]
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