Winter 2016/17
The models remain consistent at bringing the return of a -NAO just after the turn of the new year with a major ridge setting up west of Ireland while arctic air pours into Europe from the east. Check out the GFS snow forecast through the next 10 days! As well as favouring colder times, snow chances […]
It’s been and continues to be an active Pacific-North America pattern and the atmospheric dynamics are changing with the season. Of course eastern Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota just got hit by a record Christmas Day blizzard, their 2nd blizzard in 2 weeks! Bismarck is seen it’s snowiest season to date thanks to the back […]
It was a Christmas weekend to remember across Scotland with not one but two storms spanning from early Christmas Eve to late Boxing Day with low level 80+ mph/high level 120+mph wind gusts each day, 50ft waves out at sea and the wild swings in temperature. Storm Barbara brought storm-force conditions on land but out at sea, her worst was […]
Mark, Karen and Holly would like to wish you all a very Merry and Blessed Christmas 2016.
In 1984, the charitable supergroup Band Aid sang: “There won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time.” In fact, it does snow in Africa at high elevations. Kilimanjaro has long been crowned by a cap of snow and ice, though it has been shrinking. Skiiers travel for natural and manufactured snow in the Atlas Mountains […]
Thanks to a large and powerful storm, Christmas Day will be a day of extremes with blizzard conditions over the Dakotas while record warmth, flooding rain and tornadoes is expected across the South. Record warmth is highly likely with southerly winds ahead of the storm’s cold front. NEXT POST/VIDEO WILL BE TUESDAY 27 DECEMBER. I […]
In the last 24 hours, wind, rain and snow has whipped across the Northern UK and it remains very windy today. Top gusts from Barbara were recorded as follows. Low level: 83 mph on Shetland this morning, 117 mph on Cairngorm. The worst of Barbara was thankfully restricted to the open sea where wave heights of 50.5ft were recorded […]
After a warm fall and focus of hemispheric cold over Eurasia, the tide turned in December as the weak, fluid polar vortex shifted into a favourable position to deliver one of North America’s strongest December cold outbreaks in the last 20 years. What a difference a month makes! November December to date A simple shift in […]
The focus this Christmas weekend shall be on Storm Barbara which strikes later today into Christmas Eve and another deep depression, Storm Conor which shall hit Christmas Day. Expect snow on the backside of Barbara, mainly on high road routes but mix to low levels is possible… Christmas Day shall open mild AHEAD of the front […]
The latest Pacific storm system shall push across the Pacific Northwest Friday, Rockies Saturday and Plains Sunday bringing wind, rain and snow but while there’s a large cold side to this storm, there’s an even bigger warm side where flooding rain and severe weather shall be a real threat. The system shall bring powerful winds along the […]
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