Winter 2015/16
As the title says, we have not one but potentially 2 or 3 snow opportunities today through Monday/Tuesday. While plenty have seen snow in the last few days, plenty haven’t but I think fronts running into this deep low level cold will see snowfall and lying snow starting off in western/central Scotland as well as down the […]
My target for 2016 is to climb at least 3 munro’s (Scottish mountain above 3,000ft) and by that I mean entirely on foot and not using mechanical aid such as chair lifts etc. At 5am Wednesday (13th) morning, I scraped the frost off my car and set off for Aonach Mor, located roughly 7 miles N of Fort William. […]
Plenty of folks, mainly above 100m are waking to their first covering of snow this morning along with below freezing wind chills. Many of you who have stepped out this morning will have felt the difference, a drier, more biting cold representative of arctic air. Thanks to sunny skies, here’s a view of the Northern UK […]
It’s 4.45am and about to hit the road after defrosted my car. Thermals are on and taking the 2.5 hour drive up to Fort William where I am attempting to summit Aonach Mor elevation 4,006ft, 8th highest in UK today. This would be my 5th munro (Scottish mountain above 3,000ft) and most challenging given the solid winter conditions now […]
The combination of system and lake effect is bringing heavy snow squalls through the Great Lakes and across the Northeast today. With lakes waters so warm and ice free it’s like lighting the fuel for major snowfall to the lee of all the lakes, especially Erie and Ontario. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] It was a chilly start […]
It’s kinda an all or nothing upcoming 5-7 day period for us. This ‘cold spell’ will be nothing special if we don’t get much in the way of snow on the ground except the higher elevations but with a widespread snow cover and with a 1032 surface high covering the UK, there’s the potential for […]
Yesterday was a big day for sport, specifically in Minneapolis where the Minnesota Vikings took on the Seattle Seahawks at the US Bank Stadium in the NFL postseason wildcard game. After starting off the day at a frigid -11F in MSP, the temperature rose to a still bone-chilling -6 with -25 wind chill for kick off. […]
Well the ECMWF continues to go with the extreme cold card by laying down a sufficient UK snow cover followed by a 1036 surface high which slides over the snow fields and drives night temps towards -15, even -20. The GFS on the other hand is playing it down. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] It’s the finer details that will determine just how […]
As the title suggests, snow chances are on the increase this upcoming week with the fun and games likely to kick in mid week as low pressure moves into the North Sea and our flow becomes northerly. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] For Scotland, northern England and Wales as well as Ireland, snow is likely to come from […]
Well that arctic blast we’ve been talking about for quite sometime has arrived over the Northern US. Check out the 20-30 degree drop within the past 24 hours over the north-central states. The next 7-10 days will see waves of arctic air sweep south out of Canada. The system which brought the snow in the […]
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