Archive for 2018
Back on Monday Tokyo was hit by up to 9 inches of snow making it their biggest snowfall since 2014 while FEET of snow continues to pile into the central Alps west of the city due to ongoing arctic winds blowing across the Sea of Japan. https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/955387145593683968 https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/956335116942487553 To the west of the city, the […]
The deep Atlantic low responsible for bringing flooding rain, 85 mph winds to the UK and record warmth to parts of eastern Spain has also produced a record warm January day in Denmark. On Wednesday afternoon, the thermometer surpassed the previous Danish January record of 12.4C set in 2005 with a new peak of 12.9C […]
Up until yesterday, the Minneapolis snow season 2017-18 has been pathetic with the biggest snowstorm being just over 3 inches. Then came yesterday’s 12.4 inch dump. This was the biggest single day snow for the city in 7 years. https://twitter.com/pdouglasweather/status/955816537973194753 https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/956273233602506755 https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/956285605025140737 Unfortunately, this snowpack gets shrunk as 40-degree air moves in from the south. […]
Courtesy of a deep Atlantic low, Western Europe is back in the milder SW flow. Recent days has seen the Spanish Costas enjoy unusual January warmth of mid to upper 20s (C). Sunday saw Valencia soar to 26.4C, making for the hottest January day on record. The following day Valencia reached an even higher 26.6C […]
It’s been a wild and impressive start to 2018 for cold in the East and South with coldest opening week on record for most sites, not one but 3 Deep South snowstorms within 5 weeks followed by the coldest night since the 1980s and 90s from Houston across to New Orleans and points in between. […]
Thanks to a positive North Atlantic Oscillation but negative Arctic Oscillation, January like December has been mixed but on the whole near to slightly above average over the southern British Isles and cooler than average for N England, N Ireland and Scotland with the last 7 days being particularly snowy. Temp anomaly for first 15 […]
Clear skies, light wind and widespread snow cover gave us another opportunity to shoot for UK’s coldest temperature of the 2017-18 winter. The thermometer dipped to -13.5C at Dalwhinnie, initially thought to be the UK’s lowest overnight reading before anticipated cloud moved in. https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/955027467076603904 However it was Kinbrace, Sutherland which stole the prize for being […]
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