Archive for January, 2017
By Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather meteorologist 1/13/2017, 9:37:01 PM Extreme weather hit the West this week, with the heaviest snow and rain in years — and some flooding that exceeded levels established in 1940. Here are the most impressive snowfalls (via OnTheSnow.com and the ski slope’s websites and Facebook pages): Mammoth Mountain, CA: 184 inches (15.3 […]
Record cold and snow by Philip Eden Disruptive snowstorms in the UK during the last ten years can be counted on the fingers of one hand, in marked contrast to the 1980s when they were two a penny. One of the most interesting winters that decade happened exactly twenty years ago, in 1981-1982, when many […]
Friday is another cold one with strong to gale-force northerly winds (especially down the North Sea Coast) while heavy snow along with the strong winds across Highland Scotland is making for blizzard conditions and very tricky driving conditions. Most prone ‘snowy routes’ have been closed due to heavy snow and blowing and drifting. Powerful northerly winds running down the North […]
Firstly, here’s two interesting article titles produced by the same journalist 8 months apart! After ‘years’ of poor rainy seasons and worsening drought, 2017 has started like a dream for California, if not a little too much too quick. While low elevations over parts of Northern/Central California has seen up to a foot of rain, […]
As forecast, a deep low passing just north of the Scottish mainland is producing a rough day from Caithness southward into Northern England with strong, gusty gale-force winds which are driving in frequent showers of rain, sleet, hail and snow as well as thunder and lightning. Winds were gusty overnight with the passage of the cold front! While winds gusted […]
Colorado is no stranger to powerful downslope or Chinook windstorms. Yesterday was right up there with one of the stronger. It was the classic set-up with a strong storm system coming onshore in California with tightening pressure gradient between a high over Montana and low sliding underneath. The pressure squeeze is enhanced by the Rockies and […]
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