Seasonal Forecasts
Ahead of the cold front which has been progressing southwards during Monday we saw a spring-like day for many during yesterday. https://twitter.com/SimonLeeWx/status/957593884007297024 With a strong jet stream close by this week, expect an up and down temperature regime through this week with mild ahead, cool behind the fronts. https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/957683287132164096 https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/957886050717679616 After yesterday’s mild we’re […]
After observing the warmest January and mid winter days on record with rain falling in Fairbnaks, winter made a comeback to Alaska with persistent snowfall within bitterly cold air. Yes it can snow even at -10, -20 even -30. Truth is it’s never too cold to snow. The snowfall within -30 degree air in Fairbanks […]
This winter has been driven by a +NAO, -AO which has kept things interesting with snow and cold as well as spells of mild. The NAO appears to remain negative which results in the continuation of a fluid Atlantic pattern. We’ve seen a pick up in storm activity within the last 10 days resulting in […]
Unlike the bombardment of Pacific systems, record rain and snow this time last year, it’s been a very different winter for the West this year thanks to the persistency of high pressure. Sierra snow depth last year vs. this year. https://t.co/HoJmcSuVcm pic.twitter.com/CQGNgyCucc — California Sun (@mmcphate) January 24, 2018 California’s ice box was buried last […]
Back on Monday Tokyo was hit by up to 9 inches of snow making it their biggest snowfall since 2014 while FEET of snow continues to pile into the central Alps west of the city due to ongoing arctic winds blowing across the Sea of Japan. https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/955387145593683968 https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/956335116942487553 To the west of the city, the […]
The deep Atlantic low responsible for bringing flooding rain, 85 mph winds to the UK and record warmth to parts of eastern Spain has also produced a record warm January day in Denmark. On Wednesday afternoon, the thermometer surpassed the previous Danish January record of 12.4C set in 2005 with a new peak of 12.9C […]
Up until yesterday, the Minneapolis snow season 2017-18 has been pathetic with the biggest snowstorm being just over 3 inches. Then came yesterday’s 12.4 inch dump. This was the biggest single day snow for the city in 7 years. https://twitter.com/pdouglasweather/status/955816537973194753 https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/956273233602506755 https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/956285605025140737 Unfortunately, this snowpack gets shrunk as 40-degree air moves in from the south. […]
Courtesy of a deep Atlantic low, Western Europe is back in the milder SW flow. Recent days has seen the Spanish Costas enjoy unusual January warmth of mid to upper 20s (C). Sunday saw Valencia soar to 26.4C, making for the hottest January day on record. The following day Valencia reached an even higher 26.6C […]
It’s been a wild and impressive start to 2018 for cold in the East and South with coldest opening week on record for most sites, not one but 3 Deep South snowstorms within 5 weeks followed by the coldest night since the 1980s and 90s from Houston across to New Orleans and points in between. […]
Thanks to a positive North Atlantic Oscillation but negative Arctic Oscillation, January like December has been mixed but on the whole near to slightly above average over the southern British Isles and cooler than average for N England, N Ireland and Scotland with the last 7 days being particularly snowy. Temp anomaly for first 15 […]
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