Mark Vogan
It’s a nice mild final 5 days to March but the switch it’s flicked and the first 5 days to April is rather chilly thanks to the breakdown and shift of high pressure! Next 5 days Following 5! Note the flip in temperature anomaly. Even the 11-15 day remains on the cool side of average […]
In the wake of the wettest winter on record, it’s been a cold, stormy March for much of the US Lower 48. Coldest on record for parts of the Northern Rockies. Following a record low pressure system which delivered cold, wind, snow, white out conditions, flooding rain and severe weather, an historic flood event followed […]
Following the crazy warmth of February, March has unsurprisingly produced little winter thanks to a strong jet stream throwing one low after another across Ireland and the UK. A strong, cold polar vortex and MJO has driven the positive-neutral NAO with the Western Europe door wide open. This aided Northern Ireland, Denmark and Sweden to […]
Northern Ireland gets wettest March in first 18 days of the month thanks to strong polar vortex, MJO
The combination of strong/cold polar vortex, an increased thermal gradient over North America coinciding with phases 2, 3 and 4 of a strong MJO has driven a highly active Atlantic storm pattern across Ireland, UK and Denmark. Northern Ireland, Denmark and Sweden have witnessed their wettest March on record. Unusually strong and cold polar vortex. […]
Below article from Weather Underground. Jonathan Erdman Published: March 20, 2019 Forecast temperature departures from average for March 20, 2019. The areas most above-average are shown in the brightest pink and white contours. Tuesday’s high in Klawock, Alaska, about 200 miles south-southeast of Juneau, topped out at 70 degrees. While that wasn’t a March record […]
The extremes of weather found on the US Plains never cease to amaze. This time it’s low pressure. A system which was forced to rapidly deepen thanks to the merging of two powerful jet streams produced a true weather bomb. Something you don’t expect to see in the middle of a continent. This storm could […]
After an active spell of weather with spells of high wind, flooding rain, hail, sleet and snow, high pressure is building and shall anchor itself over the UK and much of Western Europe for the remainder of March and likely into the first week of April. Give or take a weakening Atlantic front and fronts […]
February saw countless extreme weather events. From record wind, snow and cold in Hawaii, record heat in Europe to record cold in the US and Canada as well as record snow and rainfall. We also observed the Northern Hemisphere’s strongest tropical cyclone for February. Super Typhoon Wutip underwent rapid intensification over marginally favorable or average […]
NW Europe: Stormy gives way to settled but not before a potentially snowy as well as stormy weekend!
It’s been a turbulent time for Northwest Europe with one low after the next sweeping hurricane-force winds and heavy, persistent rains off the Atlantic. The most recent system, Storm Gareth produced Cambeltown (Kintyre) strongest March gust (75 mph) since 1994. Great Dun Fell, Cumbria recorded a gust of 110 mph. The remainder of the week […]
Courtesy of a a bitterly cold air mass sweeping off North America, our beloved Atlantic jet stream is powering our way and forcing the rapid deepening of our next winter storm which arrives this evening. Storm Gareth has been named by the Met Office for the likely disruption from wind, rain and high level snow. […]
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