Archive for 2018
The cold continental air is now making it’s way back across the North Sea. With cold air and precipitation comes the renewed threat for disruptive snowfall, especially for England and Wales but nowhere will be immune from seeing snow at least in ‘shower’ form through the weekend. With an hour of daylight gained since the […]
Up until the end of February/beginning of March 2018, the benchmark for deep snow and drifting probably goes to March 2013. The last time heavy snow, strong winds and severe blowing and drifting stopped me from completing a delivery. March 2013 happened to be the UK’s coldest in 50 years. I was delivering across Dumfries […]
The 3rd Nor’Easter in less than 2 weeks was a record breaker for Boston and other southern New England communities. It was Boston’s first ‘blizzard’ since February of last year. As the latest powerful Nor’Easter which dropped nearly 30″ of snow and 80+mph winds in parts of Massachusetts lifts into the Maritimes and continues to blast Maine, […]
Another Nor’Easter, and another coastal system meeting ‘bomb cyclone’ criteria with an impressive 31mb pressure drop within 24 hours. Generating 80+mph winds and 30+ft seas, this Nor’Easter will be remembered for it’s snow whereas it’s predecessors will be remembered for 90+mph wind and coastal flooding. It’s the 3rd Nor’easter within 2 weeks and 4th in […]
What will be interesting with this net wave of Siberian cold dubbed the ‘beast from the east 2’ will be how cold AFTER the easterly winds. What I mean by that is the easterlies blew from Wednesday right through Sunday with a lot of cloud and snow in the air. While cold yes, there was […]
We may be in a milder regime now compared to the beginning of the month and with temps UK-wide hitting double figures, many are being led into a false sense of security. There’s still a good degree of uncertainty but confidence is growing on a cancellation of spring and an abrupt return to winter with […]
The deeply negative NAO, east QBO, favourable MJO are fuelling this wild Nor’easter storm train for the Northeast and all eyes are on the next Northeast coastal storm which is developing over the TN valley. Before we look at the latest, here are the totals for the last system just days ago. Note the big […]
The British Isles turns cold following a sudden stratospheric warming some 66% percent of the time. The mid February warming of course led to the record breaking ‘beast from the east’ last week. When Europe turns cold a week to 10 days following an SSWE, the NAO is often very negative along with the AO. […]
We are gradually climbing out of last week’s freezer with each day turning that little bit milder. However it’s not without a few bumps. Mild hitting cold is bringing further snow and some localised disruption. It was our turn again here in Central Scotland back on Tuesday then today it’s been parts of Central England […]
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