Archive for March 18th, 2013
The Arctic Oscillation is entering the same negative territory as the record depths seen back in 2009-10 and both the UK and USA know what kinda winter that was. The persistence in negative since early February explain why we’ve seen a much colder and snowier second half to winter but it’s the sharp tanking which is […]
Scotland With low pressure slowly creeping south and east this is opening the door to air blowing all the way from Scandinavia where here it’s abnormally cold. A strong to gale-force east wind has been dropping air temps throughout today and so snow is falling to increasingly lower levels, especially in eastern areas but with […]
There’s a lot of cold air across much of Europe still and with a punishing blast of arctic air diving into eastern Europe, Atlantic frontal systems continue to cut across the UK, France and Spain and as this moist air enters the cold, dense air, heavy snow has and will continue to break out across the higher terrain of northern […]
As written about late last week, we have yet another complex winter storm situation setting up Northeast with not one but two systems to contend with. While the front running or lead storm departs the Mississippi Valley and heads towards New Jersey, it’s as this moisture (fed north from the Gulf) collides with southbound cold, arctic air across the […]
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