Archive for October, 2012
In the past 10 days the US and overall North America pattern has changed from back through August, September and early October. Since July’s heat, there was at least 3 significant shots of cold during August, Sept and early October with the trough dropping straight into the Central and Eastern states. However in the past […]
As alluded to since Sunday, a significant ridge is building over Europe supporting temperatures 4-8C above normal and it’s looking more likely that after a messy next few days over Northwest Europe, this warmer air will reach the UK early next week. What’s interesting is that while we have warmer air over Europe and indeed North […]
Scotland The conditions were perfect last night for the first fast freeze following heavy showers during the middle part of the night. With a cold air mass in place, once those showers pushed through and skies cleared, the temperature sharply dropped to freezing or just below allowing car and even pavements to ice and glaze […]
The latest storm system to barrel it’s way through the Pacific Northwest will intensify as it’s circulation winds up over the Northern Plains Wednesday-Thursday. Expect powerful north, northwest winds to crank over eastern Montana across the Dakotas Wednesday and Thursday, these may cause big rigs to blow over on west-east routes and cause minor damage to property […]
The huge ridge remains firm on the models in about 72 hours covering most of the continental mainland once several areas of disturbed weather clear out. We;ve seen significant rains down over Italy and the Balkans and of course frontal system continue sliding into Iberia, France and the UK, extending up into Scandinavia. While the ridge […]
Shutterstock Scotland After a rather dismal day with heavy cloud and persistent rain, skies are beginning to clear out with the sun reappearing The stubborn rain band is pulling east out into the North Sea but what’s been interesting about this setup is that as the rain band migrated north during last night, the cold air which settled in before […]
The US pattern is beginning to setup more like what I envisioned Fall to be like with a more active Pacific storm train cranking and driving systems into the Pacific Northwest. Another is pushing through during late Tuesday-Wednesday and after dropping fresh snows over the high country of ID, MT, perhaps WY and CO, the […]
THIS INCREDIBLE STORM WAS A TRUE ONCE IN A LIFETIME AND LIFECHANGING EVENT IN MY LIFE, THE VERY EVENT WHICH SEEDED MY INTEREST AND LIFELONG PASSION IN WEATHER. IT’S A STORM WHICH WILL LIVE WITH MY FOREVER… Winds in Norfolk gusted to 122 mph In London 94 mph Central pressure dropped to 953 mb off SW England […]
HERE IS THE POST WHICH I TRIED TO POST LAST NIGHT BUT THE SITE WENT DOWN AS I HIT POST… Like we saw over the weekend with a storm pushing into California and crossing the Plains, another system comes acalling into the Pacific Northwest by late Wed-Thurs and intensifies as it enters the Plains. By Thursday, […]
Shutterstock Scotland The first low of the week will swing a front into southern Britain tonight and while Scottish skies shall remain fairlu clear and calm for a large part of tonight, cloud and rain looks to p-ush into the South of Scotland early tomorrow morning. Frost and temps near freezing will be likely across […]
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