Archive for February, 2013
Due to the time of night I’m only going to put up today’s edition of ‘Vogan’s Views On Europe’ but will get more LONG RANGE thoughts and charts up for you tomorrow. Cold dominates the UK as well as all of western and central Europe for at least the next 7 days with potentially 2 […]
I’m sure you’ll have noticed that wind out there today, feeling particularly raw that’s for sure. Although the air temperatures wasn’t that bad, it was the sting in the north wind which made it feel quite bitter. We have a direct discharge straight from the arctic. This flow tends to be fairly moisture starved and so […]
I showed you last night the ECMWF upper charts and 850 temps, here’s what the latest GFS snow charts show for snow cover over Europe by Thursday AFTER a system pushes through. What I am fighting with here is how much snow do we get. I do believe there is enough cold air in place for […]
There are two systems the models are picking up on over the next 3-6 days, both of which remain out over the Pacific ocean right now but as the pattern shifts towards late week with a trough returning to the West, so these storm ride in on a strong Pacific jet. These systems will bring big snows […]
It sure has been a rough past 24 hours across Britain with 100+mph winds, 65+ft waves recorded off the Outer Hebrides as well as widepsread and disruptive snow with blizzard conditions in places. During the overnight much of Scotland recieved anywhere from a dusting to as much as 2-4 inches of snow with higher amounts over the hills. The […]
A strong jet tearing across the Pacific, like we’ve seen here in the UK, will once again alter the upper level pattern across the Lower 48 once again by late week, the next major winter storm will bring more big snows to the Intermountain West including Salt Lake City and Denver where it has been mild over the […]
As forecast, severe winter weather is hammering Scotland full force today with gale or severe-gale force winds. In a comment early this morning, I wrote on facebook that ‘this is no ordinary westerly wind’, of course this is a wind direction not normally associated with cold and snow, however thanks to a series of meteorological circumstances coming together, a powerful gale is driving air straight from Greenland across to Scotland. […]
Remember back at the start of 2013, I along with many other forecasters talked and showed you the onset of a major stratospheric warming event which would split apart the polar vortex and drive the entire arctic reservoir down into the mid-latitudes, Well, these incredible images below are off weather.com, taken by Andreas Dörnbrack of that […]
It has been a decent weekend for snows stretching from North Dakota down through Chicago and into the Mid-Atlantic and even southern Appalachains with some potent lake-effect bands bringing 6-10, locally 12-18 inches of snow to parts of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Upstate New York but another TWO systems will make an impact tonight into […]
A wild situation is evolving right now between Greenland and Scotland with winds now increasing here and are set to blow an all-out and ‘biting’, NW gale overnight into tomorrow. An elongated or stretched out 1034-1036mb high extending from Iberia to near North America, with a deep low centred near Iceland, not only stretches out the pressure field but tightens it. This means a gale with hurricane-force […]
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