Mark Vogan
If you’ve read my latest articles and watched the videos then you’ll be well aware that our warm, wet winter was largely down to the warm ‘enhanced’ phases of the madden julian oscillation. The northward heat release fueled a highly active wintertime rossby wave train. At the end of March, the MJO finally weakened into […]
A persistent high pressure system anchored between Scotland and Scandinavia has led to a complete shutdown of ‘weather’ and produced significant April rainfall deficits from UK through Central Europe as a result. This blocking high has re-routed all weather north into Scandinavia and south into Iberia. 500mb height anomaly for April so far. Rainfall anomaly […]
What’s going on? We have gone from relentless rain to unusually dry in just 6-8 weeks. From almost UK-wide flood warnings in February/early March to little or no rain from March 19 to April 16. This was the 500mb height anomaly for February. This was the result. A record wet February for the UK. As […]
Old man winter decided to not show for the winter of 2019-20 not just over the USA but the majority of the hemisphere. Now that we’re well into spring when heat, storms and even hurricanes become the focus, winter decided to arrive, albeit 2 months late. With a shift in the big tropical drivers, the […]
While Easter 2020 will be far from anything anybody’s witnessed before, the weather will actually be not too dissimilar to last year which turned out record warm throughout the UK. https://twitter.com/MarkVogan/status/1251907422438019074 Like last Easter, we have a nice warm, near summer-like high centred east of the UK off the Danish, Dutch coast, as this system […]
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