Archive for 2012
AS MUCH OF 14″ OF SNOW IS RECORDED 10 MILES NW OF BADGER, MINNESOTA WHILE THE LOW AT WEST YELLOWSTONE, MONTANA PLUNGES TO 5F THIS MORNING, WINTER HAS ARRIVED! It sure is getting cold across a large chunk of the Lower 48 and when looking back, years with weak El Ninos have often produced significant cold waves with record breaking snows […]
Shutterstock General Synopsis A frontal boundary drapped across the Southern half of the British Isles will have another wave of low pressure push along it through tonight bringing yet more heavy rain to the same areas which got soaked last night. The low and trough which has been so persistent over the past 5 days […]
I am strapped for time this morning so this is a short write-up, however the video goes into detail. Video is lengthy but I make several points which I want to you know about regarding this pattern. This is an important period, potentially a cross roads with the NAO returning to positive for a time. […]
It all started off with the recurvature of Super Typhoon Jelawat following a hit on Japan. This system was shown on modelling as a recurving storm and for many years, forecasters in the US would look at this as a sign of a ridge building up the western flank of North America while a trough dropping into the […]
Shutterstock General Synopsis The overall synoptic chart across the Atlantic is currently very complex with many low pressure centres dominating. The nearest low to the UK is north of Shetland at around 988 mb and over the next 24 hours it will track east and deepen, becoming a decent storm for southern Scandinavia. It is this low which has dominated the […]
Temperatures were in the 70s and 80s yesterday over Montana and during the overnight hours, the first of two strong cold fronts swept through dropping temperatures sharply and forcing snow to break out. These snows were falling earlier in the day yesterday over British Columbia and Alberta as the cold air rished south on the […]
Back on Sunday I made mention of the frost threat Wednesday night and probably Thursday night too as a clear slot developed in between systems. Sure enough, the North Highlands got off to a cold start this morning with a widespread frost following a night of clear, calm skies. Though chilly further south, a breeze as well as passing showers kept temperatures […]
Shutterstock General Synopsis The overall synopsis supports a two large troughs either side of the North Atlantic Ocean with one positioned over the British Isles and the other over the Northwest Atlantic. Both are complex with multiple centres.There is a fairly deep trough now well over the UK with low heights supporting very cold air […]
In both Winters of 2009-10 and 2010-11 my long range seasonal forecast turned out successful but last year that success came to a crashing halt. Since then I have been studying the global pattern, ocean sea surface temperatures across the world as well as observing closely what our weather pattern has been telling us ever since last year. I’ve learned […]
Shutterstock General Synopsis The overall synopsis across the Atlantic supports a low due north of the UK and due east of Iceland at around 988 mb, high positioned to the south of the UK neasr Azores at around 1020. Another high over Greenland at 1020 and a low over the Northwest Atlantic at around 996 mb.The low […]
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