As well as the brutal cold gripping central, eastern and southern Europe, powerful ‘bora’ winds are fuelling major ‘sea effect’ snowfall over the Adriatic and dumping huge snows in eastern and southern Italy.

Saturday AM air temps.

Wind chill at 3:50, check out the Adriatic and Med coasts!

Wind chills as of 8:10 Saturday

CZARNY DUNAJEC – PUŚCIZNA RĘKOWIAŃSKA in the mountains along the Poland-Slovakia border, it dipped to -37C with ground temps hitting -41C this morning.

Poland lows this morning.

For the last 3 days, the tight pressure squeeze between 1040+ surface high over Germany and sub-995 low exiting Italy has forced a powerful, persistent and bitterly cold NE bora wind which has been blasting off the mountains  and gusting up to 124 mph off a frigid continent towards the Italian Adriatic.

The relative warmth of the Adriatic, like lake effect, ‘cloud streets’ and convective snow clouds are generated and these have dumped crippling amounts of snow.

This setup left incredible scenes like this in Capracotta, central Italy.

Pescocostanzo, Italy

Abruzzo, Italy

This was the scene in Blace, central Serbia.

A good overview of the situation via Severe Weather Europe.

GFS ensemble pulls Europe cold west with big warm-up for areas currently coldest!