We’ve seen it so many times before, the GFS shows a top-down (10 to 50mb) sudden stratospheric warming but it either doesn’t happen or doesn’t favour the UK. Thus far, winter has been somewhat disappointing after a promising November. December and January so far has been fairly mild overall and like I’ve pointed out so many […]
The current Alaska cold has peaked and is beginning to pull back. Check out this amazing image showing the intense cold nestled within interior mountain valleys south of the Brooks Range via infrared imagery. Today, Fairbanks didn’t achieve the same temperature as the -51F yesterday morning but it looks like there was a -61F at the Kanuti Lake SCAN station this morning. […]
From the frozen Venice Canals to snow on the beaches of Greece, January 2017 will join 2006 and 2012 for it’s brutal central and eastern Europe cold. Something this website stated was a possibility back on Nov 1. Scene from a frozen Vatican. Deep snow buries Istanbul Sofia Moscow Looks like a summer’s day until you see the […]
While the truly arctic air lifts out of the Lower 48, it’s regrouping and intensifying up across Alaska and Northern Canada. For the Alaskan interior, including Fairbanks, Wednesday morning was the coldest of winter and coldest in 5 years! Fairbanks recorded an official low of -50F this morning, coldest in 5 years when it hit -51F back on January 29, 2012. Interestingly this […]
Arctic Outbreak of January 2017 round 2 is well underway with focus shifted into Southwest Europe as the coldest weather of the year drives across France Spain and the Western Med. Here’s the setup responsible for Spain getting a taste of Siberia this week. High pressure positioned over N France has mild Atlantic air running over top into the Northern […]
What a difference 10 days makes! The last round of excessive rain and snowfall essentially ended the California drought north of I-80, that’s 40% but drought remains in Southern California. San Francisco got more rain in the first 8 days of 2017 than in all of 2013! With 350 billion gallons of water pouring into Northern California lakes […]
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