Archive for April, 2018
Following a very cold and snowy winter and first half to spring 2018, according to the new ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis, Scandinavia’s snowpack is currently at it’s deepest in at least 10 years.
A textbook powerhouse spring low is spinning over the Plains producing a full blown blizzard in South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas while a major severe weather outbreak is likely to unfold within the warm sector. Upwards of 2ft of snow and drifts in excess of 4-8ft courtesy of 60+mph winds is expected on the northwest […]
I went for a walk into the the Drumochter Hills on Tuesday to bag another couple of munros. To the east of the A9 and just south of Dalwhinnie, I discovered huge snow drifts tucked within the narrow Coire nan Cisteachan gully between Carn na Caim and A’Bhuidheanach Bheag. So I went in for a closer […]
It’s been a truly historic opening week to April 2018. In fact there’s never been a colder start (in recorded history) for many cities in the Dakotas and Minnesota and for others, including Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana and Ohio, the coldest in at least 80 years. Amazing to see 20 to 25 below normal for […]
It sure felt raw in the easterly breeze as I walked my kids to nursery both at 8am and 1pm today. The current wind direction and pressure pattern is very similar to late February/March but there’s big differences too. The easterly of 35 days ago came straight from Siberia and froze Europe en-route to the […]
The vast landmass of Eurasia endured an extreme March 2018 on both ends of the temperature ledger. Northern Europe shivered in one of coldest March’s while down in Middle East and sub-continental Asia it was warmest. The below information is credit to Etienne Kapikian and Maximiliano Herrera. https://twitter.com/WMO/status/982260109601472514 https://twitter.com/ZdenekNejedly/status/979782549210791937 At least 7 if not 9 or even […]
We’ve a nagging ESE flow this week with plenty of showers piling into the eastern UK with sun and April showers dominating further west. As we head into late week, the weekend and next week, the modelling shows a building of heights across the N UK which indicates a much more stable setup with mild […]
It’s been a brutally cold, mid-winter-like open to April for south-central Canada. Daily and even monthly all-time record cold highs and lows have been set. https://twitter.com/robsobs/status/981266393101406212 Winnipeg’s -20.5C recorded back on Wednesday was the city’s coldest April temperature since 1997. However Winnipeg’s April record low is a brutal -27.8C set back in 1932. Excerpt from […]
It’s a highly active rainy pattern for California and here’s a great article from Daniel Swain and the setup and more. Where do things stand now? The last blog post was about another incoming warm, wet Pineapple Express-style atmospheric river storm. That one did indeed end up packing a punch, but that punch landed a […]
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