Rest of Europe
While the cool, northwest flow, sunshine and April showers dominate the UK and Ireland through next week, areas of surface low pressure are forming south of a trough dropping down over the UK and Ireland. These surface cut offs, divorced from the main upper flow (jet stream) can plague regions for many days,l even a week or more because […]
Enjoy the warmth while it lasts because we’re about to return to a March-like chill as we head towards the weekend. The NAO has now ‘peaked’ and is now heading back towards a negative signal, promising a chilly first half to May for the UK, Ireland and western Europe while ridging will bring a nice warm-up over […]
Following a major late winter storm which dumped 17.2 inches of snow in Duluth and as much as 22 inches in other parts of Northern Minnesota, Saturday dawned record cold beneath clear skies, light winds, fresh snow cover and arctic air in place.Temperatures Saturday morning plummeted to -14F at Embarrass in the Minnesota Arrowhead region (NE corner) […]
Thought it would be a good time to look at the global SST’s and tie in some interesting anomalies which have appeared during the cold second half to winter across the Northern Hemisphere and also look at the deep tropics and potentials with the upcoming Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season. Firstly, here’s the current global SST’s as […]
We all know this cold pattern can’t last forever but the big question has been for a while now, when will this all end. Since Mid-March it was clear the pattern would persist into April and now that we’re into April, I have been hinting at a mid-month turnaround with a potentially warmer than normal […]
I thought it might be interesting to dig through some of the stats from back in January and February to see how they compare to this cold March so far over Europe and what I’ve found is quite incredible. Despite longer days, stronger sun and the fact it’s outwith meteorological winter, most European cities are seeing March as […]
As posted last night, the Easter snow chances have significantly diminished across the UK and indeed Ireland and it’s now looking like a cold but largely dry upcoming weekend. In saying that, snow showers can’t be ruled out but any significant ‘system snow’ is highly unlikely now as it stays well west and south as pressures will stay too […]
The Arctic Oscillation is entering the same negative territory as the record depths seen back in 2009-10 and both the UK and USA know what kinda winter that was. The persistence in negative since early February explain why we’ve seen a much colder and snowier second half to winter but it’s the sharp tanking which is […]
The above chart pretty much sums up our upper level height fields right now. This is keeping winter going this year and may produce one of our coldest Marches in 30 years for not only the UK but Europe. With an Atlantic cold front sweeping across the UK, temperatures hold up tonight but just above […]
In the wake of the crippling blizzard which stretched from Germany to the UK with most extreme impacts seen across Northern France, major cold set in over the freshly laid snowpack to produce a mid-winter level deep freeze. Beneath clear skies and light winds, temperatures plummeted to a record -12C or 9F overnight in Brussels, Belgium. According to FlandersNews.Be, this marks the […]
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