Archive for January, 2017
January 2017’s second wave of arctic/siberia air has made it’s presence felt particularly over the Iberian Peninsula. Winter’s tend to be cold and snowy in the high elevations of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of central Spain but snow and sub-freezing weather tends to be much rarer along the beaches of the Mediterranean. Western Europe has been experiencing an omega blocking pattern […]
Following an impressive early December Arctic Outbreak followed by January thaw, February looks promising for Midwest/Eastern and quite likely Western winter lovers given the forecasted SSWE (sudden stratospheric warming event) but if the CFSv2 is anything to go by and we know it’s flaws, rainfall looks to significantly taper off in California and the West. January temp anomaly so […]
I keep banging on about the similarity between this winter’s pattern and 2011/12. That, like this year displayed relatively settled and mild conditions for the UK but cold over a large swath of the continent. Also like 2012, Southern parts of the UK have tapped on nearby cold continental air while Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern […]
I’ve taken a bit of a break from climbing in the last few months as our second baby is due in just over 2 weeks and my wife needed me around more. However, the past weekend presented me with a window of opportunity in weather and chance to achieve my 20th munro. My last opportunity to […]
There’s a full-scale January thaw underway across the Lower 48 while Alaska shivers in it’s coldest spell for 5 years. As is typically the case, some of the Lower 48’s mildest winters has seen some of Alaska’s coldest. As stated in my winter forecast back in November, the likely absence of the North Pacific warm pool […]
We’ve seen it so many times before, the GFS shows a top-down (10 to 50mb) sudden stratospheric warming but it either doesn’t happen or doesn’t favour the UK. Thus far, winter has been somewhat disappointing after a promising November. December and January so far has been fairly mild overall and like I’ve pointed out so many […]
The current Alaska cold has peaked and is beginning to pull back. Check out this amazing image showing the intense cold nestled within interior mountain valleys south of the Brooks Range via infrared imagery. Today, Fairbanks didn’t achieve the same temperature as the -51F yesterday morning but it looks like there was a -61F at the Kanuti Lake SCAN station this morning. […]
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