Mark Vogan
The vast landmass of Eurasia endured an extreme March 2018 on both ends of the temperature ledger. Northern Europe shivered in one of coldest March’s while down in Middle East and sub-continental Asia it was warmest. The below information is credit to Etienne Kapikian and Maximiliano Herrera. https://twitter.com/WMO/status/982260109601472514 https://twitter.com/ZdenekNejedly/status/979782549210791937 At least 7 if not 9 or even […]
We’ve a nagging ESE flow this week with plenty of showers piling into the eastern UK with sun and April showers dominating further west. As we head into late week, the weekend and next week, the modelling shows a building of heights across the N UK which indicates a much more stable setup with mild […]
It’s been a brutally cold, mid-winter-like open to April for south-central Canada. Daily and even monthly all-time record cold highs and lows have been set. https://twitter.com/robsobs/status/981266393101406212 Winnipeg’s -20.5C recorded back on Wednesday was the city’s coldest April temperature since 1997. However Winnipeg’s April record low is a brutal -27.8C set back in 1932. Excerpt from […]
It’s a highly active rainy pattern for California and here’s a great article from Daniel Swain and the setup and more. Where do things stand now? The last blog post was about another incoming warm, wet Pineapple Express-style atmospheric river storm. That one did indeed end up packing a punch, but that punch landed a […]
It’s been a remarkable second half to winter and beginning of spring for Scotland. Following the coldest February since 2010 with Braemar recording it’s coldest daytime maximum in February, both March and April opened extreme with the TWO beast from the easts setting new monthly snow and cold records. Cities including Glasgow experienced their coldest […]
What a brutal open to April for the North-Central US. Perhaps the opening week of the month will go down as one of the coldest on record for the Northern Plains/Upper Midwest. Yesterday morning observed the coldest April night on record for some. https://twitter.com/NWSChicago/status/981514513068515328 https://twitter.com/NWSAberdeen/status/981573833579749376 It bottomed out at 8 degrees which turns out […]
Yesterday was not your typical early April day across Scotland. With daytime temps hovering at 1 to 3C during the mid and late afternoon accompanied by a near daylong snowfall which saw a coating to as much as 6 inches accumulate above 100 metres. Yesterday’s big contrast between a cold Scotland and mild England and […]
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