Winter 2016/17

California Likely Set’s New Wind Record With 199mph Gust!

Written by on February 28, 2017 in United States of America, Winter 2016/17 with 0 Comments
California Likely Set’s New Wind Record With 199mph Gust!

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 […]

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Meteorological Winter 2016-17 Ends On A Wintry Note But Nothing Like 7 Years Ago!

Written by on February 28, 2017 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland, Winter 2016/17 with 0 Comments
Meteorological Winter 2016-17 Ends On A Wintry Note But Nothing Like 7 Years Ago!

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, […]

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Wierd February: Many Eastern US Sites On Track For Warmest Feb, 70s Up To Burlington, VT?

Written by on February 27, 2017 in United States of America, Winter 2016/17 with 0 Comments
Wierd February: Many Eastern US Sites On Track For Warmest Feb, 70s Up To Burlington, VT?

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 […]

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Iceland Goes From Warmest February Day To Biggest February Snowstorm, Wet/Windy UK Turns Colder

Written by on February 26, 2017 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland, Winter 2016/17 with 0 Comments
Iceland Goes From Warmest February Day To Biggest February Snowstorm, Wet/Windy UK Turns Colder

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 […]

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Calif Ski Resorts Crack 500-600″ of Snow With Snow Banks Towering 20ft @ Donner Pass

Written by on February 25, 2017 in United States of America, Winter 2016/17 with 0 Comments
Calif Ski Resorts Crack 500-600″ of Snow With Snow Banks Towering 20ft @ Donner Pass

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 […]

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TWC: Saharan Dust Turns Spain’s Ski Slopes a Dirty White

Written by on February 25, 2017 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland, Winter 2016/17 with 0 Comments
TWC: Saharan Dust Turns Spain’s Ski Slopes a Dirty White

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 […]

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After Storm Doris Explodes Over UK With 94mph Gusts/Heavy Snow… Focus Turns To Low Countries

Written by on February 23, 2017 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland, Winter 2016/17 with 0 Comments
After Storm Doris Explodes Over UK With 94mph Gusts/Heavy Snow… Focus Turns To Low Countries

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 […]

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United States March 2017 Outlook

Written by on February 22, 2017 in United States of America, Winter 2016/17 with 0 Comments
United States March 2017 Outlook

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 […]

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European March 2017 Outlook

Written by on February 22, 2017 in Rest of Europe, United Kingdom & Ireland, Winter 2016/17 with 0 Comments
European March 2017 Outlook

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 […]

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Mangum, Oklahoma: From 99F to Snow in 72 Hours

Written by on February 21, 2017 in United States of America, Winter 2016/17 with 0 Comments
Mangum, Oklahoma: From 99F to Snow in 72 Hours

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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