Mark Vogan
As expected, widespread, heavy and disruptive snow swept in overnight cutting short a cold night with a penetrating frost. It was the first significant snow for the Central Lowlands and 2nd and in some cases 3rd significant snow for parts of northern and central England bringing beautiful scenes but tricky travel. https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/946632305690456064 https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/946709404593815552 The motorways […]
It hit -41 in Minnesota yesterday and nearly reached that again in upstate New York this morning. https://twitter.com/wxjerdman/status/946367616146444288 https://twitter.com/KathyOrrFOX29/status/946391419136151554 https://twitter.com/MWObs/status/946405900037828608 Think it was cold Christmas eve through Boxing day, think again as it looks like New Years eve through Jan 7 is even deeper cold. We have a clipper diving SSE now, once this exits, […]
UPDATE: Loch Glascarnoch now at -10.1C as of 9.30pm. ORIGINAL POST As the isobars open up so winds turn calm this evening. Widespread clear skies, light winds over fresh snow cover has set the stage for potentially the coldest night of winter for the UK. Ahead of an Atlantic system, temperatures could approach -13 to […]
We observed the greatest Christmas Day snow cover across the Lower 48 in 5 years as well as a record shattering snow event for Erie, Pennsylvania and historic snowfall for Seattle too. Seattle had at least 1″ of snow both Christmas Eve and Day for the first time in over 120 years! Seattle also tied […]
We know a wet and windy system shall sweep across the UK late Christmas Eve/Day but the big question remains, will there be a white Christmas? At this moment in time, we do know SOME PLACES, particularly higher up, have a good shot but how much area and to how low in elevation do we […]
Up until now it’s been a very mild December in a SSE corridor stretching from Alaska to Arkansas. The opening 10 days of the month was most unusual with a record breaking snow event from Brownsville, TX all the way along the Gulf Coast and points inland across the South to the Florida Panhandle. https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/943839984762552320 https://twitter.com/AllisonChinchar/status/939491004339671042 Snow […]
December 2017 has been described by the NWS as an ‘exceptionally mild’ month throughout Alaska. The major cities of Anchorage, Juneau and now Fairbanks are witnessing their warmest December on record, among countless other places. According to climatologist Brian Brettschneider, Fairbanks is running an astonishing 20 above normal for the first 20 days of December […]
Here’s a glance at the latest model output for Christmas Day. Note the good agreement with low coming in across central Scotland, starting dry in south, wet in north with snow confined to north of the Central Belt. Models will continue to shift and alter over the next few days but it looks like 95%+ […]
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