Rest of Europe
By Pam Wright Feb 23 2017 12:00 AM EST weather.com Story Highlights Dust from the Sahara Desert was swept up into a low-pressure system over north Africa on Monday before making its way toward Europe. In Spain’s Sierra Nevada, snow falling on ski slopes had a brownish color. The dust will move further east toward […]
Storm Doris, beautiful from space but a headache on the ground. In the words of Anthony Sagliani (Meteorological Operations Manager at Earth Networks), Doris is an absolute classic Shapiro-Keyser cyclone. A true weather bomb as she undergoes rapid cyclogenesis over the UK with an impressive 34mb pressure drop within 24 hours. With a very distinct mild southern and cold […]
After a cold central and southern Europe January, it’s turned considerably milder during February. As you can see from the below January temp anomaly map, the core of coldest was on the Balkan Peninsula where Serbia and Hungary witnessed their coldest Jan in some 50 years, the coldest in 20 years for France. For the […]
After a very mild, spring-like 18.3C at Kew Gardens and Northolt Monday, the increasingly turbulent Atlantic is ready to pounce and this process is already showing this afternoon. As winds increase, so the rains sweep in and the temperature decreases through today. Following the band of rain associated with the cold front, blustery showers follow turning increasingly to snow over high ground. The trans-Atlantic […]
It’s a mild day for February out there with a mixture of sun, cloud and outbreaks of rain. The key component to the unusual warmth in which several recording sites are reading 17C at this hour is courtesy of strong and gusty west wind. While many are in the 10-13C range (still very mild), it’s areas to the lee or […]
I see the papers are at it again with their extreme hype of shear nonsense. The Sun/Star/Daily Record are saying tomorrow (Monday) will be the UK’s ‘hottest February day in 160 years’. Hum, firstly our official records only date back to 1910 and 18C would NOT be a UK record either. If my maths serves […]
When looking back through the more recent years (back to 2000), I think this winter was closest to 2011-12 with blocking high pressure predominantly over the NE Atlantic with extension into the UK and Scandinavia while cold air frequently swept underneath bringing a colder than normal January to France and Spain as well as SE England. Like […]
The blocking high remains dominant over Europe which is essentially holding back the gather Atlantic low pressure traffic back with only soft glancing blows through the remainder of this week for the Northwest. Nice visible satellite view of a busy North Atlantic. As the Atlantic pattern sluggishly returns to the UK resumes, ridging regroups at the more traditional […]
It’s been an interesting past weekend of weather with varying wind direction bringing various weather. While the UK has been under the gun of a biting easterly wind which brought snow from Shetland to Kent, SSE winds drove temperatures over 16C widely across Iceland. Meanwhile down in the typically tranquil Canaries, an Atlantic depression with the support […]
All courtesy of the 929mb Atlantic weather bomb a couple of days ago, the freezing line is getting awfully close to the North Pole according to the GFS while the UK is bathed in below freezing wind chills and blustery snow showers. There’s been an unnerving thaw on the Norwegian Arctic Island of Svalbard this week. These comparison […]
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