Winter 2016/17
The next front pushes across the UK today bringing a spell of wind and rain followed by blustery showers of which turning increasingly to snow over high ground. Certainly a much cooler feel for all. Current radar A little earlier, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire was sitting at a murky 13C while the Western Isles was down to fresher 6/7C. 850mb temps […]
It really was an impressive storm, check out these final totals. A conservative amount in New York City thanks to westward shift in track. Out goes the storm and down comes the bitter cold. Check out these afternoon temps despite the sun shinning and it being mid March! Clear sky, light wind and deep snow […]
As well as North America, there has been a lot going on this side of the Atlantic and the last 24 hours has been no exception. Following the rapid flip from record heat to record rainfall, strong and damaging winds became the focus last night into this morning across Gibraltar and the southern tip of Iberia. In fact both […]
It has and remains an impressive Nor’easter/snowstorm with white out conditions affecting New England while winds gusted 79 mph on the Mass coast, 138 mph on top of Mount Washington and pressure dropped an astonishing 19mb in just 3 hours. The below visible loop shows a textbook rapidly deepening coastal storm. Some highlights. As for the further […]
Back on Saturday, it was looking and feeling like mid summer on the Costa Blanca with Alicante sizzling at 34.8C, a new March and April record and warmest ever reading outwith June-July-August. Just 36-48 hours later and Alicante was and continues to reach 10-12C as wind and record rainfall pounded the region with consequential flash flooding. Gale-force winds […]
Unfortunately time is against me, so here are the latest charts on the developing major storm which will become a major Nor’easter with high likelihood of bombogenesis off New England. Do watch this morning’s video for more of my thoughts. Latest GFS Another shot of bitter and unusual mid March cold hits in the storm’s […]
Following what appears to have been MAINLAND Spain’s warmest March day in history Saturday with 34.8C recorded at Alicante Airport, we go from summer straight back to winter with a significant change to much cooler and stormier. A lot of rain as well as inland heavy snow is expected across SE Spain over the next 36 hours. With a trough […]
Mild UK, but hot Spain and Canaries. That’s the general rule these days. Azores high pressure replaced the low pressure which brought the fierce and damaging winds to France back on Monday, spread across Italy Tue-Wed and now drifts into Greece and Turkey to end the week. Check out this very summer-like visible satellite view from yesterday afternoon and note the absence […]
A lot of attention has been on the big storm taking up half of North America’s atmosphere and rightly so, however an exceptionally cold air mass (by March standards especially) has been building over the Canadian Archipelago in the past week (remember the end of February strat warming event?), temperatures have reached all-time record levels in Mould Bay, NWT. Thanks […]
After FC Barcelona experienced their greatest turnaround in history last night, the sun is well and truly shinning today. In fact, southern and eastern Iberia is already climbing into the middle 20s as of late this morning. A dominant Greenland-North Atlantic trough, Azores ridge parked over Iberia means a warm pattern even in March. Visible satellite shows barely a wisp […]
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