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Every few years we get a heavy snowfall combined with rush hour traffic which can lead to nightmare multi-hour delays. Heavy snow falling on a motorway packed with stationary vehicles is a worst case. Remember December 2010? M8 Glasgow The M8 wasn’t too pretty at rush hour this evening. Neither was the M74 through. https://twitter.com/whits1971/status/953178436255846400 My […]
A powerhouse 260 mph jet stream has driven bitterly cold Canadian/Greenland air across the North Atlantic and over Ireland and the UK bringing frequent blustery snow showers through today. The jet stream running across the UK this week will be very strong, exceeding 260 mph, which is why things are going to turn more unsettled […]
The well advertised cold NW air flow which has origins traced back to Arctic Canada is arriving this afternoon and evening across the UK. Expect the air to cool as the wind picks up later this afternoon into evening. Showers will become frequent and increasingly wintry at all levels tonight and through Tuesday likely causing […]
Lot’s of extremes in the world of weather these days. A few days ago a severe windstorm with blizzard conditions hit the Kazakhstan capital of Astana. *World Weather* Intense blizzard conditions in Astana, Kazakhstan on January 11! Video: IC Service / Le courrier de Russie pic.twitter.com/FIqnACCQWk — severe-weather.EU (@severeweatherEU) January 13, 2018 #Teacher goes missing […]
The past week has been quiet thanks to a dominant blocking high over Europe. Next week is quite different and the chances are now taking place on the other side of the pond. The North Atlantic jet stream is strengthening thanks to the return of arctic air back into the Eastern US/Canada, increasing the thermal […]
Each and every winter sees spells of heavy snowfall in the high alpine resorts but the past 2 to 3 days have been something else. 2-3 METRES of snow has all but cut off resorts and communities with 13,000 tourists trapped in several resorts. The Savoie region of France witnessed 1.8 metres of snowfall (6 […]
As forecasted back on Nov 1, the 2017-18 winter has been rather mixed with a series of relatively short lived cool spells and one significant mild spell between 15-25 December. After a cold first 10-15 days of December (coolest since 2010) the mild which followed helped produce a warmer than normal December for the UK. […]
We had a near perfect environment throughout the duration of last night for maximum radiational cooling of which Central and east Highland Scotland observed the coldest temperatures. Both Glasgow and Edinburgh Airports, positioned west of both cities and away from the urban heat island saw the thermometer surpass the previous ‘coldest of winter’ (-8C) set […]
On the face of it last night looked promising to be the UK’s coldest night since February 2012 when it hit -15.6C at Holbeach, Lincolnshire. This winter has had it’s share of chilly nights, hence -13C in the Midlands, -8C in Glasgow but last night appeared to support the most conducive atmospheric conditions to present […]
For the last 10 days, the core of ‘coldest air compared to normal’ has been focused over North America while Europe and much of the hemisphere has been mild to warm. Sure, it’s not been all that mild here in the UK but overall, we’ve marginally held onto the cool. Interestingly there’s a trend beginning […]
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