Mark Vogan
September wound up near normal temperature-wise but wetter than normal, October was warmer but drier than normal and November looks as though it shall wind up cooler than normal. The chill to end November shall almost certainly make November 2017 a below normal month for the UK but it’s no November 2016! When the three […]
It may be mild and rather soggy for the bulk of England, Wales even Northern Ireland but cold air hangs on across Scotland and because of that, snow is falling above 1,500ft. Moisture has been plentiful, lifting up from the sub-tropical Atlantic along a frontal boundary attached to low pressure W of Scotland. Heavy, persistent […]
On Thanksgiving Day 2010, the US-Mexico border town of Falcon Lake, Texas recorded a temperature of 97 degrees which became the highest temperature ever recorded on Thanksgiving. An unusually strong upper ridge is building over Southern California. Aided by offshore winds blowing from desert to ocean, temperatures are expected to widely reach the upper 80s, […]
With the continuation of a fluid Atlantic pattern, our temperature rollercoaster also continues. After a chilly weekend, we started this week still cool in Scotland and Northern Ireland but downright balmy for SW England and Wales where we saw 17C yesterday. This evening the mild is up over Northern Ireland and southern/central Scotland. Tonight won’t […]
It’s a bit of an all or nothing November across not just the Northern tier of the United States when it comes to snow but even in a relatively small area of the West. While parts of the Central Rockies have very little to no snow, many parts of the Northern Rockies are at record mid November levels […]
I guess you could say I’ve got Friday frustration as you’ll be aware if you watched the video from earlier. It’s dark and wet here in Ft William just now and I guess this sums up how I feel when it comes to computer forecast models. It seems for the last 5 years we time […]
Recent days has seen the return to stormy and wet conditions to the Pacific Northwest extending well into California. This is the first in a series of systems which will hit the West Coast in the run up to Thanksgiving. #AtmosphericRiver bringing widespread rainfall to the #SanFrancisco Bay Area this morning! Rain spreads southward through the day into […]
Torrential rains associated with a cut off low over the central Med Sea has produced devastating flash floods to parts of Greece and with this very feature expected to become a warm core medicane in the same area late this week, more devastating floods is expected. The setup is such that a low to mid level cut off low is strengthening […]
No it’s not something from the chemist but a consolidating storm system which forms over the Mediterranean and takes on some tropical characteristics including a warm core and a clear eye. The last medicane we had was back last Halloween. The models have showed a medicane forming late this week for some time. Small chance […]
With Ben Macdui, Braeriach, Aonach Mor, Carn Mor Dearg, Ben Nevis and another 10 munros including the UK’s top 6 highest ticked off the list last year, 2017 had a lot to live up to. It’s certainly been a great year for me in the Highlands . Like 2016, another 15 summits were achieved including another 3 in beautiful Torridon in April and May, Ben […]
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