Archive for 2013
Enjoy the warmth while it lasts because we’re about to return to a March-like chill as we head towards the weekend. The NAO has now ‘peaked’ and is now heading back towards a negative signal, promising a chilly first half to May for the UK, Ireland and western Europe while ridging will bring a nice warm-up over […]
Scotland After a wet and breezy night and start to your Tuesday, conditions have improved considerably through this afternoon with decent spells of sunshine to be enjoyed by most. Through tonight and while we see a fairly clear and calm night from the Central Lowlands northwards, it turns into another wet night across the South thanks […]
The continuation of cold records being set is quite amazing and when you see lows down to single digits in South Dakota (8° at Huron, latest single digit reading on record!), 12° in Rapid City on April 23, it’s amazing so late in the season. Lows dove back into the 20s all the way into the […]
Scotland A frontal boundary currently splits the UK in two with Scotland on the much cooler and unsettled north side. A stiff westerly wind has been blowing frequent showers across the country through today and by tonight, a more organised area of rain will sweep in from the west bringing a spell of rather wet weather tonight. Winds […]
It’s been an incredibly cold and snowy spring across the Rockies, Central and Northern Plains and we’ve seen yet another major snow dump upwards of 18 inches on the Black Hills of South Dakota Sunday into Monday while earlier today, the Braves vs Rockies game was cancelled in Denver due to snow. More cold comes down […]
The temperature climb has begun as highs reach 16C or 60F today over Northeast Scotland while it hit 17C at Murlough, Northern Ireland thanks to strong, downsloping winds. While it stays fairly unsettled across Northern Ireland and much of Scotland over the next few days, Central and Southern England, Wales and Ireland are set to warm further in coming days. Stronger heights and some sunshine […]
A major late April cold blast dove all the way to the Gulf Coast this weekend with 30s even reaching Florida this morning. While the South shivered, another wave of unseasonable cold is dropping out of Canada tonight and on the leading edge of this strong cold front, heavy snow shall break out from Montana through Wyoming, Colorado […]
Following a major late winter storm which dumped 17.2 inches of snow in Duluth and as much as 22 inches in other parts of Northern Minnesota, Saturday dawned record cold beneath clear skies, light winds, fresh snow cover and arctic air in place.Temperatures Saturday morning plummeted to -14F at Embarrass in the Minnesota Arrowhead region (NE corner) […]
The forecast challenge has begun as I have figures I am going to throw at next week. They are, London pushes 23C on Wednesday but as the warmth spreads across southern Britain, the cold regroups across north of the UK and will dive south late week. It’s pretty much a case of going from a positive to negative NAO within […]
A few Friday evening thoughts. We could have quite the temperature swing coming up over the next 7 days as the NAO signal flips from positive to negative and that means a sudden shift from warm to late season cold with hill snow. As expected both of today’s runs of the ECMWF show what I’ve said yesterday and throughout this […]
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