Archive for 2012
[warning]60-70MPH WIND GUSTS EXPECTED TONIGHT ALONG IRELAND’S WEST/SOUTH COAST AND SOUTHWEST ENGLAND/WALES[/warning] It’s been closely monitored throughout this week and tonight we will feel the full affects of an unusually deep Atlantic low as it sweeps northeast between Ireland and Wales tonight! All week the GFS has had the central pressure down to 980mb over the Irish […]
Both Colorado and Wyoming endured one heck of a wild night of weather. As the perfect ingredients converged upon both states, so powerful supercell thunderstorms formed overhead. These storms produced huge rains which caused flash flooding in several areas while torrents of hail followed creating crazy scenes in which vehicles became stuck. We even saw some […]
Recent days has seen Southeast Australia under the focus of some very wild weather. An intense low came up from the south hammering Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania with gales, torrential rains and heavy swells, now the focus of active weather is out to the western side of the country while high pressure allows drying […]
We have yet another push of unseasonably chilly air driving into the Pacific Northwest by Friday as the next powerful Gulf of Alaska storm comes ashore. Prior to the storm’s arrival, we see heat build over the Deserts and by the time we reach Saturday and the storm has already come ashore over Washington, the heat core […]
It’s been outlined to you since Sunday but I have been keeping an eye on this potentially stormy late week scenario since last week. I held off a few days before releasing this as a forecast in case it was just a blip. Now it’s reality and it could very well be an interesting day of weather tomorrow. I was starting to […]
Since the weekend I’ve been keeping an eye on the model predictions for the Mediterranean basin into next week as the ECMWF continues to show intensifying pressure with thickness values soaring to well beyond 588dc across a broad area encompassing the central and eastern basin. With these values, this would support intense heat which the models have expanding north through Greece, the […]
Over the next 3-5 days we will continue to see a rather blocked, congested weather pattern over North America with a trough over the Northwest and a large trough which extends from the Great Lakes all the way down to the Carolinas. A high over Hudson Bay will keep the cool flow going with highs again […]
After a pleasant and warm feeling day with decent spells of sunshine, the rains are here in Central Scotland and across many areas thanks to the arrival of the next front. The next few days will see one large low, sprawlled out over the North Atlantic become elongated underneath a powerful Greenland high. The stretching out of this huge low […]
We’ve seen a predominantly POSITIVE NAO throughout the past winter with a significant late December/early January warm spell on both sides of the Atlantic correlated well with what likely was the strongest + phase of the NAO. We saw another strong positive episode in March which brought the off-the-scale heat wave to North America and record warmth over Scotland […]
The overall US pattern has a Great Basin ridge pumping 90s all the way to Montana this afternoon, a new trough and storm pushing into the Pacific Northwest will setup a severe weather risk area over the Northern Rockies. A trough will deepen over the Great Lakes and extend all the way down into the Tennessee Valley […]
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