Archive for 2013
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 […]
It has been a largely mixed bag type of winter for the UK up till this point with two substantial cold spells which in fact were strong and long enough to make the overall December and January period colder than average for the UK (1st cold spell was snowless, 2nd a snow lovers paradise for many), remember the cold […]
Last night was in fact the coldest night of winter for North Dakota and western Minnesota while cold extended all the way to New York City and down to the Sunshine State. Northern North Dakota and Minnesota endured the coldest air in the nation once again with lows in spots hovering at between -25 and -35 by daybreak but air temperatures were […]
It really hasn’t been much of a winter this year across Chicago although, while snow has been sparse, it is colder than last winter at least. This morning marked the 2nd subzero low of the season at O’Hare International Airport and according to WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling, the low of 0 and wind chill near -20, makes […]
The well advertised turn to not only colder but brighter weather is now moving in to make way for a bright and largely beautiful Saturday across much of the UK and Ireland, however you may want to grab a jacket before heading out the door. That north breeze will make it feel nippy out there. Don’t […]
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