Rest of Europe
As expected, the much colder flow on the backside of this morning’s frontal system has lead to fairly widespread and low level snowfall across parts of Northern Ireland, Northern England and particularly Scotland. Bright, sunny skies followed this morning rain and snow but through the second half of the afternoon, the air turned colder and with […]
Some interest stats, charts have been released on twitter by meteorologist Simon Cardy (follow him @weather_king) on how mild the Europe winter has been. Yes, there’s no getting around the fact this winter has been mild when you look at this chart. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] A large part of the reason for this mild winter has been the incredible […]
A lot of attention has been on Ireland and the UK of late but the focus of bad weather in Europe last night into today is further south over Iberia. Those wishing for a little milder, more settled weather than over the UK and Ireland will be disappointed to find conditions strikingly similar. TOP IMAGE: Courtesy of magicseaweed.com [s2If […]
Back to back STORMY weekend’s for the UK! This was the breath taking satellite presentations we were treated to last weekend as wind, rain and snow hit the UK, just the latest in what has been a constant parade of unusually strong Atlantic depressions which have stun up over North America and crossed the Atlantic, […]
Throughout the course of today I have watched the visible satellite images come in with an increasingly spectacular depression forming off Ireland. This thing is poised to deepen into a 940 to 944mb monster. This is one of several this winter to have deepened below 950, literally unheard of in our lifetime and the hits […]
This stormy pattern has been quite incredible with the latest 952mb system causing significant disruption and damage overnight across Devon, Cornwall and South Wales. 80+mph winds drove battering waves up against the fragile, venerable Cornish and Devonshire coasts causing sea walls and piers to collapse and railway lines to dangle over choppy seas. Here was the scene at Dawlish […]
As we gaze over the charts now through next week, there’s striking similarity every 3 to 4 days. It’s every 3 to 4 days that we see a system hit while another is born, one pushes out while another quickly fills the void. Blame the abnormally strong/persistent zonal jet stream crossing the Atlantic which has in part been fuelled […]
We’ve entered a more positive NAO phase rather than neutral and this means the jet is taking more of a dip out over the Atlantic and heights build over Europe, the North Atlantic trough has deepened and what we’re finding is a stuck pattern in which multiple low pressure systems form and spiral around a trough […]
As explained about 5 days ago that we need to pay attention to what’s coming in from the west rather than the east and sure enough, I looked out my window at 3.30 this morning only to find it was snowing. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] The very system which formed along an arctic boundary over the US Gulf coast and […]
It has been an active weather pattern over Europe with major cold pushing into eastern and central areas. The collision of moisture streaming north from the Med and incoming cold over the Alps, major snowfall has been a result, especially over the Italian and Austrian Alps. While a mammoth high steers Siberian air across Russian […]
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