Seasonal Forecasts
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 […]
First the heavy snow and now WINDY Arctic high pressure for the Northern Rockies and Plains while the next big Pacific system drives underneath into Oregon, California, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah!! It’s a struggle to get above 0 in many locales from Montana to Minnesota and with still strong winds, wind chills remain dangerous! The latest batch of snow to […]
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 […]
The Pacific storm track remains highly active with multiple systems traversing northern and eventually southern routes across the U.S while the continent’s cold pool sags south. A lot of moisture shall pile into California with big low level rains and high level snows. Huge amount of water for CA within the next 6 days! Big snow totals also! In […]
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 […]
Jon Erdman Published: December 22, 2016 Like every year, 2016 had its winter storms, tropical cyclones, heat waves, cold outbreaks, severe weather outbreaks, flooding and droughts. However, there are some weather events every year that are just plain weird. These strange events could be one of the weather phenomena above happening repeatedly in one place, […]
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 […]
Since Christmas we’ve seen 2 powerful cyclones near the Black Sea which have drawn and connected rich, moist air up from warmer southern climes with arctic air resulting in major snowfall. High elevation communities stretching from northern Greece through Turkey into Iran have been hit hard. The Greek capital, Athens woke to a Christmas card-like scene yesterday morning. Northern sections of Tehran province […]
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