The entire Northern hemispheric pattern has went to the extreme with two distinctive, highly anomalous features or ‘atmospheric wheels’ bringing a weird, wild and wacky weather pattern. Could it be colder in the UK than the North Pole by Friday? Even before the meat of the cold arrives, it’s chilly enough for snow over Scotland today where the MO […]
By Jason Samenow Capital Weather Gang February 6 at 11:51 AM A gigantic, powerhouse winter storm is charging through the North Atlantic and promises to flood the high Arctic with abnormally mild air. Arctic temperatures have blown past previous record highs in recent months, and this surge of (relative) warmth is just the latest in […]
When bitter winds blow WNW across an ice free Lake Ontario, heavy, narrow bands of snow get picked up and stream into Western New York for hours, even days on end. In the last 10 days, favoured upslope areas rising inland from Lake Ontario have seen incredible snow totals. NY’s snow famed Tug Hill Plateau region has witnessed upwards of 74″ within 3 days and 120″ […]
By Linda Lam Feb 5 2017 03:45 PM EST weather.com Story Highlights Widespread above-average temperatures may bring some record highs early this week. Cold conditions will return to the northern tier and much of the East mid-to-late week. An active weather pattern will bring widespread and noticeable temperature changes to much of the U.S. in […]
Carried by a super charged 245 mph jet stream, a rapidly deepening depression entered the Bay of Biscay Friday and slammed the central Atlantic Coast of France and Iberia Friday night into Saturday packing severe winds, heavy flooding rain and mountain snow. One of Spain’s hardest hit areas was Galicia. The potent zonal jet and surrounding atmospheric environment helped rapidly deepen […]
By Linda Lam Feb 1 2017 05:15 PM EST weather.com Story Highlights January 2017 was one of the warmest on record for many areas of the East. Locations in California and the South that desperately needed rain experienced a record wet month. January was much wetter and warmer than average for parts of the United […]
Since I’m taking some time off, I thought I would share an interesting read from Stuart Markham at chorleyweather.com on the current situation. By Stuart Markham As you are probably aware from the past weeks, we have issued information regarding a major warming in the polar stratosphere, which may lead to a colder pattern at some point […]
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