Mark Vogan
Back at the beginning of last month we had a few folks screaming ‘beast from the east’ but without a cold source for that ENE to blow from, it’s nothing more than a cool easterly wind. However, the setup appears good for a true biting easterly to develop early next week as cold air builds […]
From Met Office 1 February 2018 Provisional statistics for January 2018 show it was slightly sunnier and colder than average in the north, but a somewhat different story for the south. The month got off to a wet and windy start when Storm Eleanor moved across the UK on 2 and 3 January, and this […]
Snow in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains is common during winter and in the nearby upland areas it happens every few years but not further south on the edge of the Sahara. Zagora witnessed it’s first snow since 1968. Cold air associated with a large and deep cut off low over SW Europe extending into NW Africa […]
A +NAO, -AO means the Atlantic continues to drive systems east across thee UK but cold air entrainment and building cold over Scandinavia will meet over the UK. This keeps us on the cool side of average pretty much right through next week with an ongoing snow threat, primarily but not exclusively over the hills […]
What a wild January for the Northeast and much of the country. From coldest opening week of a New Year since records began to least amount of snow cover for final week of January since 2003 and 2nd lowest since records began 15 years ago. It was a truly memorable first half to January 2018 […]
While many parts of central and southeast Asia are enduring bitter cold, it’s anything but in far eastern Siberia. While -20 to -30C is common in late January, temperatures have went off the scale warm. With temperatures of 5 to 6C above freezing, these are new monthly high temperatures for some easternmost Siberian communities and […]
It’s been bitterly cold across much of China with the southward extent of the arctic air reaching unusually far south. The chill has even made it to Shanghai where they’ve received the first snowfall in 5 years and heaviest in 10 years. Freezing temperatures made it into China’s typically balmy sub tropical region. In the […]
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