Rest of Europe
Frustrated at the mild weather we’ve been having while North America and eastern Europe shiver whilst they dig out? I feel your pain but at least we have something a little more January-like coming up this week. It’s an unsettled open to the next workweek with gales or severe gales affecting the Northern half of […]
As well as the brutal cold gripping central, eastern and southern Europe, powerful ‘bora’ winds are fuelling major ‘sea effect’ snowfall over the Adriatic and dumping huge snows in eastern and southern Italy. Saturday AM air temps. Wind chill at 3:50, check out the Adriatic and Med coasts! Wind chills as of 8:10 Saturday CZARNY DUNAJEC – PUŚCIZNA […]
Central, Eastern and indeed increasingly SOUTHERN Europe is under a major Arctic/Siberia cold outbreak all the while Atlantic air keeps the UK balmy. Almost the entire far north of Eurasia dropped below -35C last night with many getting to -45C or below. Arkhangelsk and Koynas (both European Russia) hit -41.3C and -47.6C respectively which was both their coldest […]
Arctic Attack Resembling Feb 2012 Drives Into Balkans This Weekend, CFS Hints At Early Feb Heatwave…
We’ve likely the coldest air mass since Feb 2012 beginning to drift south over central and eastern Europe and set to knife across the Balkans and out over the Mediterranean this weekend in wake of heavy snow and blizzard conditions. The past two morning’s have seen temps in the -40s over Northern Norway and Finland. A person in Karigasniemi, Finland […]
Fierce cold has moved into Arctic Scandinavia providing the coldest morning of winter. At 830 UTC this morning , it was -41C in Norway, -38C in Finland and -34C Sweden. UPDATED WEDNESDAY EVENING… Tonight is still early but it’s already colder than this morning… CURRENTLY -42.4C at Kautokeino, Norway, -39C at Inari Vayla, Finland, the wind […]
We have a nice twin REX and OMEGA blocking teleconnection in place and developing. One block with low underneath is over the N Pacific and the other over the NE Atlantic extending into the UK with two very cold air masses diving into Western North America and the other, Eastern Europe. Current rex block over both NW NAMER and NE […]
Hope everyone had a great New Year! Despite high pressure being the driver for the opening week of 2017, the UK has a mixed bag with subtle west-east shifts in the HP altering wind direction from a polar-maritime NNW to maritime WNW back to NNW or N. These seemingly slight changes in wind direction can make the difference between clearer and colder or […]
I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year and all the very best for 2017 when it arrives…
Dec 30, 2016 12:17 PM Provisional statistics published by the Met Office reveal that, with three days to go, 2016 is 13th warmest year in the UK in the series going back to 1910. The mean temperature for the UK for 2016 is expected to reach 9.3 °C. The warmest year in the UK since […]
With low pressure giving way to high pressure out over the North Atlantic near Iceland, the flood gates open up from New Years Day right the way through next week to an increasingly cold and snowy for Europe. The cold pool spreads through next week as UK to Scandinavia lows track SSE spreading fresh snow with them. Blizzard conditions are likely as […]
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