Archive for 2017
As expected, meteorological autumn opened right where summer ended with a September featuring very changeable and frequently cool conditions thanks to firm Atlantic influence. September temperature anomaly so far. August was below normal. Why the cool, damp disappointing summer? Low over high aligned west-east shows a firmly Atlantic pattern. While the westerlies where the main […]
Dr. Jeff Masters · September 20, 2017 Above image: Damage on the Lesser Antilles island of Dominica, after Hurricane Maria hit as a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds. Maria killed at least 7 people on Dominica, and 2 on neighboring Guadeloupe. Image from a video by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency. After […]
Back at the beginning of the year I headed half way up the A9 and parked up at Balsporran Cottages on a clear, cold January morning. Located just N of Drumochter and just south of Dalwhinnie, A’ Mharconaich was on my hit list. This would be my first munro since October last year and my 20th munro […]
It seems as though it’s been an eternity since dry, settled weather dominated the UK. With the exception weakening fronts drifting east Friday, Saturday and Sunday, a building Scandinavian blocking high will manage to suppress the Atlantic influence over the UK bringing the first UK-wide’s prolonged quiet spell in MANY weeks. Thankfully the beast that’s […]
Truthfully, I’m holding back on my thoughts for winter 2017-18 as it’s early, there’s so much going on in the tropics and there’s a lot of variables including the high likelihood of a La Nina. A La Nina can bring various winter conditions but I can see how the CFSv2 calls for a ridgy December […]
THIS POST SHALL BE UPDATED THROUGHOUT WEDNESDAY AS MARIA CROSSES PUERTO RICO! 11.55am BST BREAKING: Hurricane Maria has made landfall on the southeast shore of Puerto Rico as a 155 mph Cat 4 storm. Slight weakening occurred just prior to PR landfall with the collapse of eye and replacement of outer eyewall. #Maria making landfall […]
Attached to low pressure, the coldest air of the fall so far is sweeping across the Pacific Northwest bringing the first significant high elevation snows are falling for many. https://twitter.com/carto_met/status/910001588483145728 https://twitter.com/ryanvaughan/status/908063409203269632 https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/908292627434536962 https://twitter.com/SnowForecast/status/909390173334581248 https://twitter.com/NJSnowFan/status/910133081016815616 https://twitter.com/NWSRiverton/status/910113002535444481 https://twitter.com/YellowstoneNPS/status/909086694409871360 https://twitter.com/Interior/status/909930141920501765 https://twitter.com/mark_tarello/status/909080633368072194 https://twitter.com/MT6200elev/status/909078689870049285 https://twitter.com/Accu_Jesse/status/908701616630587392
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