Autumn 2017
By Jonathan Erdman Dec 9 2017 06:00 AM EST weather.com Story Highlights Much of Deep South Texas saw its first accumulating snow since Christmas 2004. Before 2004, some of these areas hadn’t seen measurable snow in decades. Winter Storm Benji was also one of the heaviest December storms on record in the Deep South. Snow […]
The current wintry spell has certainly been notable with frequent snow showers carpeting much of Northern Scotland followed by some cold nights and a system which blanketed much of Wales and central England. But it’s nowhere near unusual. Weekend snowstorm did drop over a foot in parts of Wales and a 2-4 inch covering across […]
The last time the Texas Gulf Coast beaches witnessed snow was back on Christmas Eve 2004. Today, Thursday, December 8, 2017 it’s back! https://twitter.com/_LeaveHerWild/status/939121823161245696 https://twitter.com/MDA_Weather/status/939103697807822848 https://twitter.com/MichaelCiaglo/status/939005702583885824 https://twitter.com/AllyD528/status/939127117056499712 https://twitter.com/NWSHouston/status/939118036547723264 https://twitter.com/NWSHouston/status/939064450522501120 https://twitter.com/WeatherBug/status/939120269918199809 https://twitter.com/NWSCorpus/status/939135702100533248 https://twitter.com/JessicaSavageCC/status/939077008193212416 https://twitter.com/GregHeav5/status/939090972444590080 Impressive snow across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. North Georgia and western Carolinas will get hit hard from this. Interesting to see […]
ARTICLE FROM CAPITAL WEATHER GANG Imagine going into a movie theater to check out the latest science fiction flick and there is not a single flake of snow on the ground. A couple hours later, as the credits start to roll, you mosey outside and are stunned to find your car buried in more than […]
Many parts of Scotland, England and particularly Northern Ireland and Wales woke to a blanket of snow this morning leading to beautiful scenes but also disruption. Dungannon, Co Tyrone Downpatrick, Co Down Belfast A great call from BBC Weather for where the snow was expected! The overnight snow closed schools in Northern Ireland and Wales today. https://twitter.com/BBCNewsNI/status/939058311990861824 https://twitter.com/DerekTheWeather/status/939062933258231808 Glencoe Those […]
Storm Carolina brought a stormy day across northern Scotland and a blustery day elsewhere. Winds peaked at between 80-90 mph on the low level northern mainland, 112 mph over the Cairngorms. Now that the centre is moving away towards Scandinavia, the arctic door has been opened. The frequent, blustery showers overnight tonight and through tomorrow […]
It’s been kind of a strange fall with record cold followed by record warm and snow falling in Georgia before much of Maine. Now it’s the Big bend of Texas and Mexico’s turn to see snow before parts of the Northern US. The cities of Omaha, Neb, Detroit, MI and Pittsburgh, PA have still to […]
With an easterly QBO, phase 5 into 6 MJO, La Nina and perturbed polar vortex and reflective high latitude blocking underneath, many things point to a prolonged spell of cooler than average pattern on both sides of the pond. GFS ensemble shows the blocky pattern maintaining. Check out the 500mb height anomaly 5-day means. 2m […]
Dr. Jeff Masters · November 30, 2017, 1:17 PM EST The Atlantic hurricane season, which officially runs from June 1 to November 30, has finally drawn to a close. The brutal 2017 season was an awful reminder of the huge hurricane vulnerability problem we face, and how unprepared we are for a potential future where […]
Minneapolis topped a record 57 degrees yesterday and bottomed out at 16 this morning. With the aid of fresh snow, albeit thin, temps are unlikely to get out of the 20s through the next few days with nights dipping into the teens, perhaps upper singles. https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/938048958735241216 https://twitter.com/UWCIMSS/status/938108851831955461 https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/938057082481364994 This appears to be the first in […]
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