Archive for 2018
Following another overnight in the single digits and wind chills below zero, there was little recovery in temperature during the sunny hours of yesterday afternoon. So much so it was the coldest day since 1994. Yesterday AM https://twitter.com/WeatherNut27/status/949617292333207552 While New York City failed to surpass 13 degrees, Philadelphia didn’t get above 16 degrees. What’s significant […]
On the face of it last night looked promising to be the UK’s coldest night since February 2012 when it hit -15.6C at Holbeach, Lincolnshire. This winter has had it’s share of chilly nights, hence -13C in the Midlands, -8C in Glasgow but last night appeared to support the most conducive atmospheric conditions to present […]
Some of the greatest eastern arctic outbreaks have been succeeded by big January thaws and January 2018 will go down as a classic. We’re in the midst of one of the coldest opens to a new year on record with all eyes on tonight’s temperatures from DC to New England. Tonight will see this outbreak […]
For the last 10 days, the core of ‘coldest air compared to normal’ has been focused over North America while Europe and much of the hemisphere has been mild to warm. Sure, it’s not been all that mild here in the UK but overall, we’ve marginally held onto the cool. Interestingly there’s a trend beginning […]
The Blizzard of 2018 will go down as one of the strongest East Coast storms on record. Remembered for it’s size bringing rain to Central America while snow 2,200 miles north in Canada, large wind field of tropical-storm force wind, rare snows along coastal Georgia and South Carolina as well as bringing Tallahassee it’s first […]
No change to my thinking on this Sunday’s chill followed by a ‘bark but no bite’ ESE wind early next week before the next Atlantic low sweeps in Tuesday. The coldest days come this weekend with tomorrow’s stinging NE wind followed by a clearer, calmer but colder Sunday where we may start off -3 to […]
Bitter arctic air sweeping straight from the arctic all the way into the Gulf of Mexico was met by warm, moist tropical air, a storm developed as a result off eastern Florida. As the low lifted north between frigid and sub-tropical air and over warmer-than-normal ocean, the system has exploded into a hurricane-like monster. https://twitter.com/AlexJLamers/status/948962233454940162 […]
It’s an active pattern these days with the disruptive passage of Storm Eleanor yesterday and another today, though thankfully not as strong. Eleanor brought impressive gusts to N Ireland and parts of N England overnight Tuesday into Wednesday. https://twitter.com/BBCNewsNI/status/948547851692527617 https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/948524913442349056 Easterly develops early next week but beast from east? After another windy day today, and […]
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