Archive for February, 2017
BELOW ARTICLE By Jon Erdman Feb 18 2017 03:30 PM EST weather.com Story Highlights The first of two powerful storms is moving into the Southwest. Additional showers and mountain snow are expected in Southern California into Saturday. A second storm will bring heavy rain and mountain snow early next week to Northern California. It’s been […]
When looking back through the more recent years (back to 2000), I think this winter was closest to 2011-12 with blocking high pressure predominantly over the NE Atlantic with extension into the UK and Scandinavia while cold air frequently swept underneath bringing a colder than normal January to France and Spain as well as SE England. Like […]
Big time wind as well as rain expected from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. Ahead of this storm, all river basins in the Sierra are running OVER 200% of normal snow water equivalent! The push of Pacific energy into the West Coast will translate to gusty downslope west wind and record warmth as a result over […]
The blocking high remains dominant over Europe which is essentially holding back the gather Atlantic low pressure traffic back with only soft glancing blows through the remainder of this week for the Northwest. Nice visible satellite view of a busy North Atlantic. As the Atlantic pattern sluggishly returns to the UK resumes, ridging regroups at the more traditional […]
Pacific storms slamming the Western US helped drive temperatures to historic levels east of the Rockies with Denver hits 80F for the first time in February while Oklahoma ties it’s February record with an astonishing 99F. Where it got warm along the Front Range, it turned downright hot on the Plains! 99 degrees ties the […]
It’s been an interesting past weekend of weather with varying wind direction bringing various weather. While the UK has been under the gun of a biting easterly wind which brought snow from Shetland to Kent, SSE winds drove temperatures over 16C widely across Iceland. Meanwhile down in the typically tranquil Canaries, an Atlantic depression with the support […]
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