Archive for 2010

>FRIDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE HAS NOW BEEN ADDED TO THIS POST… Images from my office this morning It’s currently blowing between 10-20 mph out of the northwest with current air temperature here down to 31 degrees. It was 34 degrees just after 9am but readings have dropped as heavy windblown snow moved in creating low visibilties […]

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 42 degrees (2.44pm) Low 29 degrees (8.53am)RAIN: Light rain at timesA morning which dropped some 20 degrees from yesterday’s mild 49 with a low this morning of 29 degrees which brought some frost. Interestingly as of 2.40am it was 33 degrees and only 30 mins later the temp jumped […]

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 49 degrees (12.43pm) Low 44 degrees (N/A)RAIN: Morning rainIt was a classic Atlantic dominated flow of very mild, moist air that was pushing in out of the SW. It was even up at 46 degrees as of 6.55am and steadily rose to a balmy peak of 49 degrees as […]

> Graphics courtesy of The Weather Channel ARCTIC PILE DRIVER USHERS IN FEBRUARY 2010 FOR USA (This post will be updated with the latest on cold and snow totals) To be honest with you, Easterners haven’t had too bad a time from old man winter this January but it looks as though the cold is […]

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 44 degrees Low 33 degreesRAIN: Light rain at timesA generally cool and cloudy start with forst and icy patches in places where skies were clear. light rain at times through the day and a generally mild day with yet another dominated by heavy, low cloudcover. The daytime temp hovered […]

>It is bone-chillingly cold across much of eastern Europe and much of Asia as the Arctic pours it’s most concentrated air into this vast territory of the northern world. Here are current readings: Minsk, Belarus -21CErzulum, Turkey -23CIasi, Romania -20CIvano-Frankivs, Ukraine -25CKrakow, Poland -20CMoscow, Russia -21CQostanay, Kazakhstan -30CAstana, Kazakhstan -33C Areas of Mongolia have been […]

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 37 degrees (3.02pm) Low 33 degrees (9.20am)RAIN: NoneA generally cooler day with a high slightly below normal. Remained very cloudy again with minimal sunlight, a gloomy late January day..

> Isle of Arran (Jan 2010) by M. Vogan what’s already happened in a nutshell November: Mild and Stormy December: 1-15th Mild and Stormy 15th-31st Cold and Snowy January 1-10th Very Cold 10-25 milder and more unsettled but the “thaw” brought average conditions not really above normal. FEBRUARY IDEAS After a mild November through mid-December […]

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 41 degrees (1.39pm) Low 35 degrees (6.14am)RAIN: A few sprinkles now and againAnother generally dry and cloudy day with Atlantic air continuing to be firmly in control but this may be having to fight cooler air off the continent over the next few days. Hills are still seeing some […]

>A DRAMATIC FEBRUARY AHEAD FOR THE USA AS NEGATIVE ARCTIC OSCILLATION RETURNS!Building Hudson Bay Vortex to be injected by super Siberian air via cross polar flow CROSS POLAR FLOW AND STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGIt’s looking more and more likely that a major weather month is ahead for the United States and perhaps the very worst this winter […]