Archive for March, 2019
After an active spell of weather with spells of high wind, flooding rain, hail, sleet and snow, high pressure is building and shall anchor itself over the UK and much of Western Europe for the remainder of March and likely into the first week of April. Give or take a weakening Atlantic front and fronts […]
February saw countless extreme weather events. From record wind, snow and cold in Hawaii, record heat in Europe to record cold in the US and Canada as well as record snow and rainfall. We also observed the Northern Hemisphere’s strongest tropical cyclone for February. Super Typhoon Wutip underwent rapid intensification over marginally favorable or average […]
NW Europe: Stormy gives way to settled but not before a potentially snowy as well as stormy weekend!
It’s been a turbulent time for Northwest Europe with one low after the next sweeping hurricane-force winds and heavy, persistent rains off the Atlantic. The most recent system, Storm Gareth produced Cambeltown (Kintyre) strongest March gust (75 mph) since 1994. Great Dun Fell, Cumbria recorded a gust of 110 mph. The remainder of the week […]
Courtesy of a a bitterly cold air mass sweeping off North America, our beloved Atlantic jet stream is powering our way and forcing the rapid deepening of our next winter storm which arrives this evening. Storm Gareth has been named by the Met Office for the likely disruption from wind, rain and high level snow. […]
The cold to start March has not been you’re typical early spring chill. It’s a cold that rivals even mid-winter cold outbreaks. While several communities across Montana shivered their coldest March temperature in decades or on record. https://twitter.com/NWSGreatFalls/status/1103388858186633218 https://twitter.com/WeatherMatrix/status/1102239388182999043 Elk Park’s -46F appears to have set a new state March record low. Until confirmed, the […]
Below article from wunderground.com Sean Breslin Published: March 6, 2019 A Norwegian Cruise Line ship arrived safely in Cape Canaveral Tuesday, two days after a powerful wind gust rocked the ship, injuring several passengers, scattering debris and even breaking some windows aboard the vessel. The Norwegian Escape was slammed by a wind gust estimated at […]
Below article from wunderground.com Jonathan Erdman Published: March 7, 2019 One of the coldest temperatures measured during the late January ‘polar vortex’ cold outbreak has been accepted as a new all-time record for the state of Illinois. A committee of meteorologists and climatologists concluded Wednesday that the low of minus 38 degrees recorded in Mt. […]
After the record warm, settled weather to close February, it’s back to business as usual for early March. A re-energised Atlantic jet stream is blowing off a bitterly cold North America and so a parade of cold lows will bombard the UK over the coming days. Massive cold pool pushing out over a warm Atlantic […]
February 2019 was record breaking month for warmth, cold, snow, rain and event wind. Parts of Western Canada haven’t seen a February as cold since the Great Depression. Here’s the 2-metre temperature anomaly for February across the US. Check out how many locations have just observed their snowiest February on record and how far reaching. […]
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