Archive for 2021
A strong ‘atmospheric boulder’ of high pressure positioned from Azores to Arctic created an atmospheric traffic jam over recent days and presented an unusual temperature profile. This highly amplified, omega block located west of Scotland forced subtropical air into the arctic circle and arctic air south back across Europe. Here was the 500mb setup back […]
The past weekend snowstorm certainly lived up to the billing of an historic event A total of 52.5 inches of snow fell on Windy Peak, Wyoming while 48.5″ fell over Buckhorn Mountain, Colorado. As with many powerful spring storm systems, severe weather is breaking out on the S Plains and this will spread eastwards through […]
The La Nina test (and perhaps in the broader sense the solar minimum) may well have passed a ‘relatively short term’ test when it comes to global temperature over the last 12 months… Here’s the 1st of 2 excerpts from my 2020-21 winter forecast issued early December 2020 Big test coming up La Nina As […]
Denver is positioned in an area where some of the world’s most extreme weather can occur. It’s all too familiar with snowstorms and big ones. Could this weekend’s storm bring something special? If you’ve read my US articles over the years then you’ll know the drill with these setups, all the atmospheric ingredients are coming […]
The CFSv2 weeklies continue to show a blowtorch for Europe next 2-3 weeks, it simply sees ‘no cold’. Despite the +AO/NAO and ‘lack of winter’ now over Western Europe, there’s still plenty of residual cold floating within the mid latitudes in the wake of the strat warm. The CFSv2 (as usual) no longer sees any […]
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