Archive for 2019
It’s been quite the month for Moline, Illinois setting not one but two very significant weather records. Situated on a bluff between the banks of the Mississippi and Rock River. It’s part of the Quad Cities metro which sits on the Illinois-Iowa border. Davenport sits on the Iowa side while Moline sits on the Illinois […]
After dipping to -14.4C yesterday morning, Scotland and UK’s coldest since 2012 and only warming to -6.2C, the thermometer took a deeper dip last night to -15.4C which makes for Scotland’s coldest since 2010. The temperature fell to -15.4C in #Braemar, Aberdeenshire last night. Making it the coldest night in Scotland since December 2010. CB […]
While it’s remained clear with pockets of freezing fog over the Northern UK, snow has been spreading eastwards through today from Cornwall to Kent and points as far north as Birmingham courtesy of the next Atlantic low moving in. The snow band shall drop 2-4cm widely over south and southeast England tonight, locally 10cm for […]
The snow we’ve seen fall widely across the UK and Ireland in recent days has produced this false colour image from space below. The red of course distinguishing snow from cloud. Though pretty sparse for many, there’s still a large enough coverage of this highly reflective surface in which maximum heat loss into space can […]
In my 10 years of weather blogging/forecasting and 20 years of of weather study, the incoming ‘Super Arctic Outbreak 2019’ will be the greatest of all cold waves, comfortably shivering past 2014 and even 2004 and is sure to be one of my greatest weather events I’ve watched unfold in my lifetime. I’ve forecasted and […]
By purely looking at the UK snow depth/cover at the end of each day from tomorrow through Friday, the focus of snow according to the latest run of the GFS is over the Scottish Highlands/Southern Uplands, N Pennines, Midlands and much of Wales away from the coast. Scotland will see snow from an incoming front […]
We’ve said good bye to the mild and hello to the polar maritime once again. The polar maritime air will be whisling down from the north throughout today with winds gusting 40-50 mph widely. This reintroduces a tricky rain, sleet and snow scenario as the cold air is mixed with ocean air. As you can […]
January started mild and shall end on an extremely cold note. As expected, we are now seeing the effects of the Sudden Stratospheric Warming which peaked at Christmas and split of the polar vortex around January 2nd. The cold shot which swept through the Great Lakes bringing two straight -40F morning’s to Northern Minnesota and […]
Up until the 20th, January, like December has been tame. Milder than expected? Yes because I believed the month would turn and turn severe. We remain in a westerly driven pattern and that was not expected by this stage, especially when taking into account the sudden stratospheric warming event which occurred around Christmas with a […]
Many parts of Scotland including myself woke this morning to the first blanket of snow ahead of potentially the coldest night of winter tonight. However, many may be asking, what happened to the ‘beast from the east’ or Greenland block? After all our weather continues to come in from the west. Instead of this… We’ve […]
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