Archive for January, 2017
First the heavy snow and now WINDY Arctic high pressure for the Northern Rockies and Plains while the next big Pacific system drives underneath into Oregon, California, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah!! It’s a struggle to get above 0 in many locales from Montana to Minnesota and with still strong winds, wind chills remain dangerous! The latest batch of snow to […]
Fierce cold has moved into Arctic Scandinavia providing the coldest morning of winter. At 830 UTC this morning , it was -41C in Norway, -38C in Finland and -34C Sweden. UPDATED WEDNESDAY EVENING… Tonight is still early but it’s already colder than this morning… CURRENTLY -42.4C at Kautokeino, Norway, -39C at Inari Vayla, Finland, the wind […]
The Pacific storm track remains highly active with multiple systems traversing northern and eventually southern routes across the U.S while the continent’s cold pool sags south. A lot of moisture shall pile into California with big low level rains and high level snows. Huge amount of water for CA within the next 6 days! Big snow totals also! In […]
We have a nice twin REX and OMEGA blocking teleconnection in place and developing. One block with low underneath is over the N Pacific and the other over the NE Atlantic extending into the UK with two very cold air masses diving into Western North America and the other, Eastern Europe. Current rex block over both NW NAMER and NE […]
Hope everyone had a great New Year! Despite high pressure being the driver for the opening week of 2017, the UK has a mixed bag with subtle west-east shifts in the HP altering wind direction from a polar-maritime NNW to maritime WNW back to NNW or N. These seemingly slight changes in wind direction can make the difference between clearer and colder or […]
Jon Erdman Published: December 22, 2016 Like every year, 2016 had its winter storms, tropical cyclones, heat waves, cold outbreaks, severe weather outbreaks, flooding and droughts. However, there are some weather events every year that are just plain weird. These strange events could be one of the weather phenomena above happening repeatedly in one place, […]
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