Archive for 2018
As arctic air brings Montana it’s coldest weather of the season (worse likely to come next 10 days), attention turns from -30 to -40 air, -40 to -60 chill to ground blizzards. Havre, MT shivered at -36 but the coldest place in the state appears to have been Mudd Lake with -42, Chinook hit -40. […]
I can’t deny that yesterday’s snow forecast for overnight and this morning was a complete bust at low levels. There was nothing when I had thought there would be a lot. Certainly further north and higher roads further south didn’t escape. Snow disrupts flights at #Inverness Airport, travel on #A9 and #A82 and also shuts […]
We have just witnessed the first true sudden stratospheric warming event (SSWE) since January 2013 with a split in the vortex. One piece has pushed over central Arctic Canada and the other into the Europe-Asia border area. The models went from cold to mild for late February which didn’t coincide with the overall picture. A […]
It’s been another snowy night/morning across much of Scotland including the Central Belt thanks to hefty snow showers blowing in on a cold WNW wind. Milton of Campsie last night. Kilsyth around 5.45am this morning. Lengthy clear spells in between the showers mean icy conditions and a freeze of the snow on the ground with […]
It’s been a wintry week in the French capital with not one but two snowstorms inside a matter of days. The first system dropped 4.7 inches at the official Paris weather station Montsouris. This was the biggest snowfall since 8 December 2010 which also saw 4.7″. The last time Paris received a bigger accumulation than 2010 […]
Yep it’s been snowy in Chicago lately, so much so it’s been record breaking! With 20 below normal air over Montana and 20 above normal in the Southeast, there’s a natural fight in between. This comes in the form of a storm series. With track SW to NE but just south of Chicago, this is […]
Blog post by Stu Ostro Is the relatively recent attention warranted? Is this meteorological term becoming part of the vernacular a good thing or not? Is it always the culprit of frigid arctic outbreaks? For that matter, what the actual heck is the polar vortex? The answer? Like many things in our world, #ItsComplicated. The […]
Up until now, winter has delivered the cold but not so much the snow. Well that’s changing and the snow is catching up and as of this writing. Heavy snow has now enveloped the Chicagoland area. Fed by a clash of warm and cold and a deepening system pulling moisture up from the Gulf has […]
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