Winter 2015/16
The first in a series of strong, moisture rich and cold Pacific storms crossed California this past weekend. While that system clears eastward today, the next can be seen approaching below. It’s been an active weekend of weather throughout California and much of the West with heavy low level rains and heavy snowfall in the Sierra […]
It’s classic March! The weekend just gone was a chilly one with snow showers, supressed daytime temps and icy NNE breeze coupled with cold, frosty nights. By this upcoming weekend, expect it to be near opposite with a taste of spring on the way. The ridge intensifies further into early next week and this could […]
There’s been a lot of focus on the rain and snow piling into California, heat extending from Plains to East Coast and of course the high potential of a major severe weather outbreak through next week but little has been mentioned about the chill set to drop over Mexico. The cause of likely 70s reaching all the way to southern New […]
Mothering Sunday 2016 over the United Kingdom will be marked by chilly sunshine with just a few showers here and there. Following a widespread clear sky and lighter winds than of late, temperatures at dawn Sunday will be on the chilly side. Southern Britain will see town and cities waking up to between 0 and +2C (countryside 0 to -2C) […]
It’s a pattern we didn’t see during the heart of the ‘rainy season’ but over the next 10-15 days it’s the REAL EL NINO DEAL for California. A true ‘atmospheric river’ is gathering steam and originating all the way back across the Pacific to the Philippines. A line of storms is forming a conga line across the Pacific while […]
Many across the central swathe of Ireland, England and Wales are waking to snow this morning. Thanks to an injection of polar air being drawn in and wrapped around the centre of a low over the UK. Snow depth forecast from yesterday. Nice scene from Dublin this morning. Near whiteout over Saddleworth Moor in the South Pennines. Loveclough Rossendale, […]
When cold meets warm you gets storms and extremes. There’s been a lot of extreme weather affecting Europe over the past week with arctic air diving south over the Western side of the continent while it’s been like summer in Greece and Turkey. A storm crossing Iberia producing hurricane-force wind, heavy rain and disruptive snow along […]
In this morning’s video I showed the ECMWF solution and I want to show you a more enthusiastic GFS in the written post for the Friday snow. As expected, the high and cold digging out of Quebec in forcing the storm system coming out of the Ohio Valley to track further south. With plenty of cold air […]
It’s a rather snowy start to Hump Day across higher elevations of Scotland, Northern Ireland and N England as a cold front swept through overnight bringing the return of winter! TOP IMAGE CREDIT: Traffic Scotland [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] The main system, which actually came off southern Greenland progresses SSE over England in weakening and more showery from today, […]
A cold front sliding W to E across Scotland this evening will introduce much colder air and a sharp drop temperature and snow level overnight tonight. Latest GFS surface shows frequent, blustery showers feeding in across Northern Ireland, Scotland and N England tonight into Wednesday morning. Showers falling more as snow through the 2nd half of tonight. Some […]
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