Archive for 2013
This winter in my opinion has been very much dominated by shots of mild and shots of cold. Although many, particularly across Ireland may be dissapointed with this winter, I would ask you to look at things from the bigger picture. Lets look at what this winter’s pattern has acheived and what’s going on right now.First of all, […]
The past 36 hours has been somewhat benign weather a lingering frontal system bringing a rather gloomy day for much of the UK. There was in fact some snow across southern parts early today. However, things will go down hill through tonight into tomorrow as a more active front advances towards the UK from the west, […]
Conditions have been worsening throughout the afternoon and as we head into the overnight period and the storm spinning offshore continues to drop it’s pressure (now around 982mb), so winds and snow rates are increasing dramatically throughout the Northeast. As of this writing, the blizzard will really start to sink it’s teeth into the New York City […]
While my recent posts have been focusing on the US with all the snow now settling into the Northeast, back here in the UK and we too have snow on the way with disruption likely during Sunday into Monday morning’s rushhour. The current cold pattern which has been pretty moderate over the past day or so will deepen […]
[warning] EXPECTED SNOW TOTALS: PORTLAND, ME 23-26″, BOSTON, MA 24-28″, PROVIDENCE, RI 24-25″, HARTFORD, CT 23-26″, NEW YORK, NY 12-18″, PHILADELPHIA, PA 1-4″ [/warning] Northeast: Playground For Extreme Weather Geography plays a huge role in making the Northeastern US a wild place to live sometimes. The climate is classified as MARITIME CONTINENTAL. Despite being situated right on the Atlantic Ocean, temperatures can […]
We have a weather situation evolving over the Lower 48 which is likely to bring an historic blizzard to the Northeast. It’s a textbook scenario with arctic air over southeast Canada drifting into the Northeast US while two branches of the jet stream are active with both northern and southern branches having a storm which will converge. The first, riding the northern branch across […]
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 […]
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