Archive for November, 2017
The tremendous swath of warmth spanning an area from California to Great Lakes shall shift eastwards as we close the books on November and begin December. November has very much been categorised by a cold north, warm south which La Ninas tend to favour. Thanks to strong high latitude blocking, a warm US doesn’t typically […]
It’s been a cool weekend featuring disruptive wintry showers in north and west and widespread frost. Looking ahead at next week, it appears we firmly hold onto the cool theme once a system sweeps through tonight and tomorrow. In the wake of the low, heights rise to the west of the UK while a meso-vortex […]
The pole of cold is shivering in the deep freeze a little earlier this year. Following an exceptionally warm start to autumn, Siberia has turned bitter. This week has seen the first -50C of the season in the Northern Hemisphere (outside Greenland). The coldest inhabited place on earth, Oymyakon dipped to -52C in recent days. That’s the lowest […]
As expected, thanks to an unusually large and strong upper level ridge, Thanksgiving Day became the hottest on record for many sites stretching from Los Angeles to the Dakotas. Looks like Lake Elsinore, CA tied the US Thanksgiving Day record high with 97 degrees. The NWS San Diego weather balloon measured a summer-like 994dm […]
We were graced by plentiful wintry showers, snowy scenes, bracing NW wind and temperatures which barely cracked 2-4C today. All thanks to a cold NW flow with origins extending all the way to Greenland. This was the scene on the M9 near Stirling around lunchtime. Near Dalwhinnie at around 2pm where the temperature was 0C. […]
November 2017 will be remembered as a chilly North, warm South with an impressive opening arctic outbreak which broke long standing records from Montana to the Mid Atlantic. It’s also going to be remembered as very snowy in the interior Northwest, perhaps a top 10 cold month over parts of the Northern Plains and will […]
September wound up near normal temperature-wise but wetter than normal, October was warmer but drier than normal and November looks as though it shall wind up cooler than normal. The chill to end November shall almost certainly make November 2017 a below normal month for the UK but it’s no November 2016! When the three […]
It may be mild and rather soggy for the bulk of England, Wales even Northern Ireland but cold air hangs on across Scotland and because of that, snow is falling above 1,500ft. Moisture has been plentiful, lifting up from the sub-tropical Atlantic along a frontal boundary attached to low pressure W of Scotland. Heavy, persistent […]
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