Mark Vogan
The all important and busy Thanksgiving holiday is fast approaching and it’s looking very interesting. The models are consistent and bringing some major league arctic air into the Midwest and East along with the potential of a significant snow event. The below GFS ensemble shows the build-up of heights into Greenland and the western US […]
As the next frontal system pushed into the cold air, parts of lower elevation Highland Scotland woke to the first blanket of fresh snow. The first appreciable snow fell in places such as Aviemore. A few more #snowy scenes from this morning. pic.twitter.com/AGSbWYm2z0 — BBC Weather Watchers (@BBCWthrWatchers) November 13, 2017 Snow! Thank you RonbytheLoch. from Aviemore pic.twitter.com/m8F9WAFvQM […]
Impressive video of Tom Padham, a research scientist who stepped out into -2F air, 105 mph winds and wind chill of -40C/F on the summit of Mount Washington, NH back on Friday. This was Tom and another colleague back last May. He says he’s been in stronger winds and dealt with 133 mph winds twice. FEATURED IMAGE CREDIT: Farmers Almanac
Simon Cardy today shared the latest run of the MO model for mean sea level pressure January through March and it screams a mild, Atlantic driven winter with stronger than normal Azores high and Icelandic low which would strengthen a predominantly zonal jet stream into the UK and W Europe. 500mb anomaly and 2 metre temp also mirrors the […]
It’s been a fairly grey, damp sort of day across the southern half of Ireland and the UK albeit mild. Tonight sees a more substantial area of rain spreading across the southern UK and this is the remains of once tropical storm Rina. Further north and the northerly flow continued to support sun and showers. It’s […]
MANY impressive records dating back some 40 or more years ago have been tied or smashed this week from Montana back at the beginning of the week to the Great Lakes as we end the week and it’s now the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic’s turn to shiver! Recent years has seen heat records fall by as much as 10 to 12 degrees […]
With an easterly QBO and consistent day by day model support, it’s looking increasingly likely that a -NAO with classic Greenland block shall setup later next week on into the following week bringing a cold final 10 days to November here in Western Europe as well as the Eastern US/Canada. This is just PERFECT, let’s hope it […]
ARTICLE FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN A new effort aims to recover meteorology data collected by a group of hardy Victorian Scottish scientists By Andrea Thompson on November 7, 2017 On the evening of February 21, 1885, two Scottish meteorologists living atop Ben Nevis—the highest peak in the U.K. at some 4,400 feet—attempted to make their appointed hourly measurements. But […]
What a difference a November can make. While November 2016 turned out 2nd warmest on record for the US with barely any snow to be found, this November 8th has an impressive 26% coverage and greatest coverage of snow for this early in at least 14 years. The only other recent year comparable to this […]
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