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Extreme cold has been gradually drifting westward across Siberia in recent weeks with the thermometer dipping well into the -50s east, northeast of the Ural Mountains. Unfortunately the Middle East has been subject to a draft sweeping down from the north and this has only exasperated the vast human suffering already in place here. Northern sections of Syria and Iraq has seen heavy […]
By Jonathan Belles, Chris Dolce, and Jonathan Erdman Published Dec 1 2016 06:56 AM EST weather.com The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season featured a combination of destructive hurricanes and climatological oddities in a season that stretched from January through late November. (MORE: Hurricane Central) Tracks of all 2016 Atlantic Basin tropical cyclones (Data: National Hurricane Center) […]
When looking back through my tweets and retweets, I’ve come to realise how much extreme and exciting weather is happening now or yesterday but never reach markvoganweather.com. So, every Saturday I intend to share my favourite tweets/retweets from the past week. You can follow me on twitter @MarkVogan #eustorm @EUStormMap 24h EUSM’s @Kirilldatsyuk reports Big […]
By Jonathan Belles Published Nov 23 2016 09:37 PM EST weather.com Story Highlights Tokyo, Japan, received its first snowfall on Thursday. A November snow in Tokyo is extremely rare, happening most recently 54 years ago. Snow flurries precipitated from colder-than-average skies on Thursday in Tokyo, Japan. This is the first November snow that the city […]
Published Nov 24 2016 06:50 PM EST weather.com Story Highlights Otto made landfall Thursday afternoon in southern Nicaragua, and is now crossing into Costa Rica. A hurricane warning is in effect along parts of the Central American coast. Heavy rain, flooding and mudslides are the greatest concerns for Central America. This is the latest-in-season hurricane […]
A bizarre chain of ocean-atmospheric events has led to a setup you never see in November. Record low arctic sea ice has led to a weak polar vortex which in turn has held a strongly negative arctic oscillation. That then has supported persistent high latitude blocking which makes for an unusually warm arctic and unusually […]
It was only a matter of time before the Siberian surface high exploded towards 1060mb following the incredible snow growth of the past 4 weeks. The GFS next week builds the high to at least 1056, generating a widespread 10-20 CELCIUS below normal across southern Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. 24-26C below normal is pretty incredible! […]
Snowfall has been relentlessly sweeping west from far eastern Asia to Northern Europe over the past 4 weeks and it’s knocking on the door of the UK as we head towards the weekend. We now have a hemispheric snow cover equivalent to early January rather than early November as you can see below. Snowfall is well […]
Snow cover continues to expand across Eurasia ahead of schedule thanks to a weak polar vortex and persistent -AO induced northern blocking. Moscow and Kiev both woke to their first snowfall this morning with 20cm locally. Kiev, Ukraine last night. Moscow before daybreak this morning. This cold trend doesn’t appear to wane but intensify as we head for […]
At this time last year, the polar vortex was strong and continuing to strengthen, likely influenced by the heat discharge emitted by the oncoming Super El Nino with a firm low over high pressure hemispheric 500mb pattern. This laid to dominant zonal, oceanic influence on both North America, Europe and indeed Asia. This year it’s been weak and this along with a […]
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