It’s been an interesting past weekend of weather with varying wind direction bringing various weather. While the UK has been under the gun of a biting easterly wind which brought snow from Shetland to Kent, SSE winds drove temperatures over 16C widely across Iceland. Meanwhile down in the typically tranquil Canaries, an Atlantic depression with the support […]
The Middle East’s mountainous north typically endures one or two cold waves accompanied by heavy snow and subfreezing nights each winter. High elevations of Iran, Northern Iraq and even Syria see snow each winter. However, winter 2016-17 has seen Siberian origin cold dig further south than normal. You associate Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman with blistering summer heat, […]
It’s been a tail of two halves during January with cool and wet conditions for northern parts of Western Australia while it’s been record hot for Sydney. February has opened where January left off with the opening 11 days witnessing monthly or even all-time records from Queensland to South Australia thanks to a persistent clear skies beneath a powerful […]
All courtesy of the 929mb Atlantic weather bomb a couple of days ago, the freezing line is getting awfully close to the North Pole according to the GFS while the UK is bathed in below freezing wind chills and blustery snow showers. There’s been an unnerving thaw on the Norwegian Arctic Island of Svalbard this week. These comparison […]
Yesterday was downright spring-like, today is back to full blown winter and tonight, the biggest snow system of the year is lifting out of the Northeast after dropping up to 19 inches of snow in Connecticut. Thanks to 50-60 mph winds along the coast, blizzard conditions affected parts of the coast from Long Island to Boston. As expected, the […]
Wednesday was a record breaking warm February day throughout the East thanks to SSW winds blowing out ahead of an approaching storm. That storm will move into the region during tomorrow bringing a major 30-45 degree drop in maximum temps between Wednesday and Thursday as well as the biggest snowstorm of the winter from DC to Boston. Current radar. This […]
A powerful high pressure system is firmly in control of Scandinavian air space and this is providing a spectacular visible satellite view over a snow covered Scandinavia and ice build up on northern shores of the Baltic Sea. Surface heights have stacked up to an impressive 1053mb. Russia origin cold is streaming westward across Europe beneath this large anticyclone. […]
Arctic air is back over the Northern Tier of the US and ready to be drawn south into the Northeast with the passing of low pressure. The first low was an all out warm, wet system but the middle week system is quite different. Rain initially perhaps from Philly down to DC but a changeover to […]
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