Winter 2016/17
The Pacific storm track remains highly active with multiple systems traversing northern and eventually southern routes across the U.S while the continent’s cold pool sags south. A lot of moisture shall pile into California with big low level rains and high level snows. Huge amount of water for CA within the next 6 days! Big snow totals also! In […]
We have a nice twin REX and OMEGA blocking teleconnection in place and developing. One block with low underneath is over the N Pacific and the other over the NE Atlantic extending into the UK with two very cold air masses diving into Western North America and the other, Eastern Europe. Current rex block over both NW NAMER and NE […]
Hope everyone had a great New Year! Despite high pressure being the driver for the opening week of 2017, the UK has a mixed bag with subtle west-east shifts in the HP altering wind direction from a polar-maritime NNW to maritime WNW back to NNW or N. These seemingly slight changes in wind direction can make the difference between clearer and colder or […]
Jon Erdman Published: December 22, 2016 Like every year, 2016 had its winter storms, tropical cyclones, heat waves, cold outbreaks, severe weather outbreaks, flooding and droughts. However, there are some weather events every year that are just plain weird. These strange events could be one of the weather phenomena above happening repeatedly in one place, […]
I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year and all the very best for 2017 when it arrives…
Dec 30, 2016 12:17 PM Provisional statistics published by the Met Office reveal that, with three days to go, 2016 is 13th warmest year in the UK in the series going back to 1910. The mean temperature for the UK for 2016 is expected to reach 9.3 °C. The warmest year in the UK since […]
Since Christmas we’ve seen 2 powerful cyclones near the Black Sea which have drawn and connected rich, moist air up from warmer southern climes with arctic air resulting in major snowfall. High elevation communities stretching from northern Greece through Turkey into Iran have been hit hard. The Greek capital, Athens woke to a Christmas card-like scene yesterday morning. Northern sections of Tehran province […]
The big interior Northeast snowstorm is underway with light to moderate snow now spreading across the region late Thursday AM. It’s late tonight into Friday that things really fire up as a secondary low forms off Cape Cod and sees a 24mb pressure drop before reaching the mid Maine coast tomorrow afternoon. As this coastal […]
With low pressure giving way to high pressure out over the North Atlantic near Iceland, the flood gates open up from New Years Day right the way through next week to an increasingly cold and snowy for Europe. The cold pool spreads through next week as UK to Scandinavia lows track SSE spreading fresh snow with them. Blizzard conditions are likely as […]
By Brian Donegan Published Dec 28 2016 09:53 AM EST weather.com Story Highlights Winter Storm Fortis is expected to bring heavy snow and wind to parts of New England late Thursday and Friday. Most of the heavily populated Interstate 95 Northeast corridor south of Boston will likely see rain. Lake-effect snow will develop in the […]
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