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After FC Barcelona experienced their greatest turnaround in history last night, the sun is well and truly shinning today. In fact, southern and eastern Iberia is already climbing into the middle 20s as of late this morning. A dominant Greenland-North Atlantic trough, Azores ridge parked over Iberia means a warm pattern even in March. Visible satellite shows barely a wisp […]
While the Atlantic trough remains strong and firmly anchored from Greenland down into the North Atlantic, throwing lows towards Iceland and Scotland, the Azores high is also strengthening and as a direct result it’s warmed to early summer levels in southern Iberia with milder air drifting up as far as the southerly UK. Low pressure close to […]
Here’s a scary video. Check this out, 130 skiers became stranded Monday on a derailed chairlift at the Prato Nevoso Resort, Italy as powerful winds hit.
WHAT A STORM! An active Atlantic with strong jet stream, formed an area of low pressure late Saturday into Sunday which rapidly intensified as it clipped southern Ireland and met the English Channel. While it was an atypical wet and windy morning across the southern UK, on the other side of the channel, winds were downright dangerous. […]
We’re in for a pretty unsettled weekend with slow northward moving low pressure providing wet and windy conditions. The reason for the slow NORTHWARD movement extends west to the other side of the pond. An unusual surge of early summer heat and consequential severe thunderstorm outbreak over the USA has created somewhat of an atmospheric ripple. As the atmosphere explodes with the merging of […]
From Met Office Mar 1, 2017 3:46 PM Preliminary statistics show that the 2016/17 winter has been dry and mild compared to the long-term average. Meanwhile, early February statistics show a milder than average month to end the season. February has brought winter to a close with above normal temperatures for all areas of the […]
The typically tranquil Azores Islands has seen stormy weather of late. Battered by gales and rough seas, strong onshore winds have driven a storm surge into Madalena on Pico Island which has caused significant damage to businesses along the water front. https://youtu.be/5aJZ-sY5B5c
Bitter hurricane-force winds blowing off the Baffin Island/Davis Straits sea ice and rounding the western and southern coast of Greenland produce amazing ‘cloud streets’ on February 25. Clear skies following record snowfall reveal incredible views of a deeply snow covered Iceland. Note the turquoise waters (algae bloom?) surrounding the coast! Another stunning view as clouds reveal a snow covered Alps back […]
We definitely have a wintry flavour in our weather as we say fair well to meteorological winter 2016-17 with ice, frost and wintry showers, particularly across Northern parts of the UK. Yesterday morning saw the somewhat ‘surprise’ snowfall over the Highlands. Boat of Garten near Aviemore As for this morning it was Southern Scotland’s turn. Newton Stewart, […]
The North Atlantic is a highly turbulent, wild place these days with a huge storm circulation producing widespread hurricane-force winds and seas stacked 40-50ft igh. Hurricane-force winds have been battering the Greenland and Iceland coasts for the last few days. As of this writing, Summit Camp, central Greenland is under whiteout conditions as a once sub-940mb weather bomb passes […]
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