A strong blocking high is establishing itself over Scotland redirecting weather to the north and south and set to deliver a multiday stretch of silent winter conditions today through the first half of the weekend.

With England, Wales, N France on the southern periphery of the high, a stiff to gale-force ENE wind is noticeable while it’s much more unsettled, even storm over Iberia. Much milder across eastern Europe for now anyway.

Beneath the high pressure core, we get beautiful clear winter mornings like this morning.

Clear skies over Scotland this afternoon unveiled current snow cover in this infrared visible satellite view.

The clear and calm over the fresh snow is also providing rare, spectacular scenes like this one captured on Rannoch Moor this past weekend.

Great views of a frosty landscape above as seen from this shot captured on board a BA flight crossing the River Don en-route to Aberdeen.

Cold overnight, particularly where snow lies.

Little recovery during daylight hours, especially where the sun doesn’t reach.

This is my sheltered back garden reading at 1pm this afternoon.

Note the frost still on roof tops.

Subtle changes in the high this weekend allows cloud to increase and night temps to moderate some.

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Another Stratospheric Warming Event On The Way?

The stage is set certainly when it comes to a snow covered and cold source! Lot’s of fuel to tap off Siberia into Europe if the models are correct.

We’ve seen two stratospheric warming events already and the GFS has another. Only this time it’s December and not October and November 😉

Check out the ECMWF weekly solutions later in December.

Snowfall expands over central and eastern Europe through the next 10 days but notice the increase further west through the next 32 days!

See this afternoon’s video.

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