Seasonal Forecasts
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 […]
September 2016 / Destination: Playa Del Ingles, Gran Canaria After the successful and great time in Menorca last September and Holly’s first time on a plane, we choose the Canaries for our 2nd family September holiday. As you would expect in the Canaries in September, the weather was great with highs between 27-30C by day, 20-22C by […]
It’s been a cold November week across Scotland with snow followed by harsh frosts which have led to ice build-up on some rivers. A North Sea low combined with northerly winds brought fresh snowfall followed by high pressure. We kicked things off back on Monday with Scotland and the UK’s coldest November night since 2010. This picture captured today shows a significant ice formation on […]
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 […]
I was at Celtic Park last night for the Barcelona game and it was certainly one of the colder nights at the football in several years for me. The previous two November visit to watch Barcelona brought near t-shirt warmth. Even at 8 and more so 9.40pm last night, there was a hard frost outside the […]
There have already been two noteworthy stratospheric warming events. Both of which have delivered cold to Asia and Europe but left North America out. November temp anomaly so far. Check out Eurasia vs North America! However could the model projected 3rd stratospheric warming event allow NA to join in on the cold? That’s of course IF […]
A strong blocking high is establishing itself over Scotland redirecting weather to the north and south and set to deliver a multiday stretch of silent winter conditions today through the first half of the weekend. With England, Wales, N France on the southern periphery of the high, a stiff to gale-force ENE wind is noticeable while it’s much more […]
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With the exception of last winter, the dominant Gulf of Alaska warm pool drove a warm Western/cold Eastern North America winter pattern from 2013 to 2015. The El Nino overruled everything last year. The lack of arctic sea ice those years on the North America/NE Asia side of the pole helped drive a strong blocking high from eastern equatorial […]
Recent winters here on the Europe side of the pole has seen strong Atlantic influence thanks to a strong polar vortex positioned between Greenland and Scandinavia which has driven a strong westerly flow into Western Europe with low pressure firmly anchored near Iceland. Why The Recent Warm, Wet, Stormy Winters And Why This Year Is Very Different This […]
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