Seasonal Forecasts
With heights building north over the Pacific into Alaska and arctic/siberian swells south, all it takes is a Pacific storm to cross the northern US and tap this cold, presenting the first snowstorm of the season and that’s exactly what we’ve got tomorrow into Saturday. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] The next low crosses the Rockies while strong […]
Well I took my first trip up Cairngorm Mountain yesterday. Leaving the house at 5.30am I drove up the A9 exiting at Aviemore and Coylumbridge and reached the car park at the base of Cairn Gorm around 8.30am. When leaving the car, skies were part cloudy, air temp +3C with even sunshine peeking through but during the climb, […]
Below article was written at 5am and scheduled for release at 10am, unfortunately it failed to release. Apologies for delay! It’s another turbulent week of ups and downs with the next named storm, Barney pushing across the UK today. Heavy rain initially followed by gale to severe gale-force winds. Worst affected areas will be central […]
The second major storm in less than a week is now crossing the southern Rockies and poised to bring blizzard conditions and over 2ft of snow to Colorado and a 6-12 inch swath from Denver through Kansas and Nebraska tonight through tomorrow. While there’s a distinct wintry side, rich warm, moist air is sweeping into the Southern Plains from Gulf is […]
In the past 6 months, there’s been a lot of linkage between 2009 and 2015 with a very similar long term weather pattern. Following a cool, wet, -NAO/AO summer we enjoyed a tranquil September and October and as forecasted here, we have seen a dramatic turn to wetter during November. In fact the flip and striking similarity […]
The big storm is now leaving the playing field and as it does, cold winds on the backside are triggering lake effect snow showers and instability snow showers across the Northeast as seen from the below radar. While one leaves, another arrives and this one looks to cause bigger problems than the last for the […]
How many times have we seen the models show a strong blocking high over Greenland and the North Atlantic 10-15 days out only to not materialise? It seems in the last 2-3 years or really since the record blocking and cold winters of 09-10 and 10-11, there has been one disappointment after the other regarding […]
This week’s big Pacific storm is now bringing gales widely across the Ohio Valley, Northeast and Great Lakes but it’s heavy snowfall in the Sierra Nevada has helped bring the earliest open to California ski resorts since 2002. Thank El Nino! The very storm is now lifting north, northeast into northern Quebec. This AM’s temps. Like winter in Canada, […]
As expected, higher sections of Scotland’s road network has experienced the first winter conditions of the 2015-16 season with treacherous driving conditions is particularly exposed areas. In the wake of Abigail, a distinctly colder (Greenland origin) air flow has dropped air temperature even at relatively low elevation a good 5-8C off yesterday’s values. Within the heavy […]
US NEXT WEEK: Another Big Storm With Severe Weather, Flooding Rain, Heavy Snow & First Arctic Blast?
Firstly I want to show you what the models have temperature departure-wise through the rest of the month. Looks like there’s good agreement on a cooler West and warmer East with an active storm track across the country. Notice the extremes greaten day 6-10… CFSv2 weeklies [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] EPS control By no means is it […]
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