Winter 2017/18
What a brutal open to April for the North-Central US. Perhaps the opening week of the month will go down as one of the coldest on record for the Northern Plains/Upper Midwest. Yesterday morning observed the coldest April night on record for some. All Time April Low for Illinois Tied on April 2 (Preliminary). […]
Yesterday was not your typical early April day across Scotland. With daytime temps hovering at 1 to 3C during the mid and late afternoon accompanied by a near daylong snowfall which saw a coating to as much as 6 inches accumulate above 100 metres. Yesterday’s big contrast between a cold Scotland and mild England and […]
Snow and -4 to -8C nights is by no means uncommon in April. There have been many recent April’s including the very recent years of 2015, 2016 and now 2018 which has seen cold weather. It sure was a cold April 2nd yesterday. The below maximums were mostly set during the morning as the air […]
April has opened wild and doesn’t appear over yet either. It was one very cold opening day to April for the North-Central US. With a high of 31 and low of 12, Minneapolis not only endured it’s coldest Easter in a decade but it was the coldest April Fools Day since 2002. Today was the […]
The clocks may have changed and it may be April now but winter refuses to let go. A system travelling northwards into a cold pool of air parked over the UK is producing heavy snow as well as heavy rain this morning and shall through the rest of the day further north. Here’s the latest… […]
While northern Europe shivered through March, much of central, Middle East and sub-continental Asia sweltered in truly remarkable mid summer level heat. The contrast between NW and SE Eurasia couldn’t be more striking. March 2018 temp anomaly for Asia. Between March 27-30, the Asian heat peaked, Nawabshah soared to 45.5C setting a new heat benchmark […]
Great piece from Chief Meteorologist Eric Fisher looking at the extreme ups and down of the Boston winter in 2017-18. March 30, 2018 at 10:13 pm Well, it’s just about in the books. We’re not done with snow chances just yet but the sun is about to win the seasonal battle and we’re slowly pushing […]
There’s no doubt, March 2018 will be firmly entrenched in our minds for years to come with not one but two ‘beast from the easts’ which delivered record snow and cold. However, the mild spells either side of these two sharp cold periods chipped away at the negative anomaly for the month overall and so […]
A system separating cool from arctic shall speedily sweep ESE this weekend reopening the door to winter once again despite it being April. Not one but two significant snow systems are poised to sweep across Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota into Wisconsin over the next 7 days with reinforcing shots of late season arctic air. Winter […]
Cold and moisture can lead to snowfall and this long Easter weekend promises just that. Who gets snow falling and where it lies is two very different things at this time of year. To some’s surprise, snowfall isn’t all that unusual at this time of year but lying snow is. For higher parts of the […]
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