Seasonal Forecasts
While Western Europe flipped from warm January to cold February, the opposite has taken place in the Eastern US with cold January to warm February. The north-central has been frigid though and this strongly reflects a La Nina February. Jan 18 Feb so far Next 7 days firmly follows the trend of the last 18 […]
From spring back to winter within 24 hours! A system lifting ENE out of the southern Plains will meet cold air dropping southwards out of Canada and so precip turns to snow from the interior Mid-Atlantic up through New England. Quite the dip in temp between today and tomorrow. From mid to upper 50s late […]
The vicious combination of gale-force winds and snowfall created white out conditions across parts of the Highland road network Wednesday. Atrocious conditions were observed in the hills where gusts exceeded 100 mph over the Cairngorms. The worst affected area was along the A82 between Rannoch Moor and Glencoe. The A9 was also subject to serious […]
It’s been unusually warm for so early in the year across parts of the Arabian Peninsula. Temps in the upper 20s, low 30s are common late February into March across the southern region. But early week has of 37 to 40C are exceptional and record breaking. Blame early summer-like 850mb temps over Saudi Arabia with […]
According to ITV weather guru Liam Dutton, the UK experiences a prolonged cold period 66% of the time following a sudden stratospheric warming event. The last time it occurred was January 2013. So happens February was cold and March was the UK’s coldest in 50 years. The time before that? 2009 and our coldest December […]
As arctic air brings Montana it’s coldest weather of the season (worse likely to come next 10 days), attention turns from -30 to -40 air, -40 to -60 chill to ground blizzards. Havre, MT shivered at -36 but the coldest place in the state appears to have been Mudd Lake with -42, Chinook hit -40. […]
I can’t deny that yesterday’s snow forecast for overnight and this morning was a complete bust at low levels. There was nothing when I had thought there would be a lot. Certainly further north and higher roads further south didn’t escape. Snow disrupts flights at #Inverness Airport, travel on #A9 and #A82 and also shuts […]
We have just witnessed the first true sudden stratospheric warming event (SSWE) since January 2013 with a split in the vortex. One piece has pushed over central Arctic Canada and the other into the Europe-Asia border area. The models went from cold to mild for late February which didn’t coincide with the overall picture. A […]
It’s been another snowy night/morning across much of Scotland including the Central Belt thanks to hefty snow showers blowing in on a cold WNW wind. Milton of Campsie last night. Kilsyth around 5.45am this morning. Lengthy clear spells in between the showers mean icy conditions and a freeze of the snow on the ground with […]
It’s been a wintry week in the French capital with not one but two snowstorms inside a matter of days. The first system dropped 4.7 inches at the official Paris weather station Montsouris. This was the biggest snowfall since 8 December 2010 which also saw 4.7″. The last time Paris received a bigger accumulation than 2010 […]
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