Winter 2015/16
The major snow, ice and rain producer of the past few days is clearing the playing field, weakening as it pushes through the Southeast. In comes the next feature but this, while could bring a foot of snow to parts of the Plains, Upper Midwest, won’t have the same level of cold to work with. […]
It’s a rough Sunday across Ireland, UK and near continent from France to Norway as very strong, gusty winds affect millions along with heavy and frequent showers over particularly Northern Ireland, N England and Scotland. These showers have been particularly problematic when accompanied by gusts over 60 mph which have fallen as snow over Scotland leading to blizzard conditions. An area of […]
US: ‘Strong El Nino Pattern’ Very Evident Into December But More Northern Blocking January/February?
Now and on into next week, the strongly +AO/NAO will continue to drive a powerful and very zonal upper flow pattern around the mid-latitudes with an El Nino enhanced, hose-like southern branch that’s essentially pumping tropical energy northward into the middle latitudes. This means a continued active but largely mild pattern across North America. The GFS […]
Thanks to the abnormally mild, humid, cloudy SW flow through the first 20 days of the month, it looks as though the UK has seen a top 5 warm November. Helped by the fact we experienced both the warmest day (22C) and night (16C) on record. Warm, moist air with a lot of cloud cover means nights […]
Today is the busiest travel day of the year for the US on the eve of Thanksgiving. On the road today? Looks like a tricky drive if travelling west of the Mississippi but up and down the East Coast, your in luck. Big snows are now affecting the mountains of the West from Sierra to […]
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