Archive for January, 2019
As a colder weather pattern is looking more and more likely through the 2nd half of January, I thought it may be a good time to have a look at just how cold Europe has been in the past. Below shows the coldest ever temperature recorded by country across Europe. Close up of the Balkans. […]
There’s an argument to be had. Is the extreme, meridional upper air pattern over Europe to open 2019 a response of the sudden stratospheric warming which peaked around Christmas with split occurring around January 1-2? I believe there’s at least some sort of linkage given that one of the two, maybe three split daughter vortexes […]
Article from wunderground.com Brian Donegan Published: December 28, 2018 Snow was not in the forecast, which isn’t surprising given the mild temperatures and the rarity of wintry precipitation in Las Vegas. “I would never forecast snow at 50 degrees,” Ashley Wolf, meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Las Vegas, told the Las Vegas […]
Below article from wunderground.com Jonathan Erdman Published: January 3, 2019 After topping the record, it would tack on almost 5 inches of additional rain in the latter half of December. Washington D.C. set a record-wet November, fifth-wettest September, fourth-wettest July and sixth-wettest May, according to National Weather Service records dating to 1871. Only January, March […]
Huge snowfall buries Alps as upper level winds turn easterly allowing Siberian air to head westwards
The much anticipated colder, snowier pattern has emerged and progresses south, southwestwards into central and southern Europe. Stopping it from spreading westwards is a very strong ridge anchored over the British Isles which reached record strength as we greeted 2019. This pressure pattern has resulted in a rather mundane Christmas to New Year period here […]
It’s been a while… In fact, nearly 8 years has gone by since Oklahoma City observed a multi inch snow event. The noteworthy 4.5 inches which fell Thursday 2nd January was the city’s biggest snowfall since February 1, 2011 when nearly a foot fell. As you can see from the below graphics. More snow fell […]
A powerful storm system named Storm Aapeli swept across Scandinavia on the night of January 1 into 2 breaking wind and wave height records in Finland and surrounding seas. https://twitter.com/eumetsat_users/status/1080481237930856448 A 10 minute sustained wind of 72 mph and 93 mph both set a new wind speed record for the western portion of the Northern […]
There was two very different air masses separating the US as we commenced 2019. While looking and feeling like winter across a large swathe from Montana to Minnesota and from Arizona to Texas and points in between, it was more like spring from Florida to Rhode Island. On the final day of 2018, temps were […]
The sudden stratospheric warming has now crucially progressed across the pole and headed towards the Davis Straits as we entered 2019. A split in the vortex is expected over the next day or so. Now we all know that there’s a delay or lag between the initial SSWE at 10mb and by the time the […]
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