My wife Karen and I would like to introduce you to our new arrival, Charlotte Alison Vogan who was born at 13.04 Thursday 2 February 2017 at the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital in Glasgow. Our little groundhog baby 🙂 weighed in at 7.10.
Today is the lull before the storm the first in a conveyor of depressions sweep in off the Atlantic. The Atlantic jet has picked up incredible strength this week. The SOUTHERN UK/NORTHWEST France appears to be in the centre of the barrel but models are still wavering with exact track, hence why there is no names given to the two deepening lows spinning […]
The Western US has enjoyed bright, sunny days this past weekend following a wild and wet first 20 days of January. This high pressure respite is about to end as a 200+ mph Pacific jet is about to drive more storms across California and the West. An additional 2-4ft expected in the already buried High Sierra around […]
We’re ending January with a stratospheric warming event as temperatures have risen 60C at within the past week at 10mb over the Arctic. This is within SSWE criteria. AO will go negative in response! Not related but it was a cold start to this morning over Highland Scotland with -10C recorded at Braemar but in contrast, it was 20C warmer on the SW coast of England. […]
For the last 10-15 days, storms have pounded California and the West almost constantly while Pacific air sweeping out ahead of each system has reinforced the eastern ridge and January thaw. It’s been a perfect open to 2017 for California. As we enter the weekend, we have quite the different upper air pattern to what we’ve been use to thanks to […]
With the combination of air temperature and wind chill, yesterday was by far England’s coldest day of winter so far with many sites stretching from Northumberland to Kent failing to get above freezing. Atlantic air however clung to Northwest Scotland where Aultbea touching a spring-like 13.4C. As forecast, Atlantic air is now spreading into western areas with a noticeable […]
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