Winter 2016/17
You’d think old man winter is trying to tease us when you see the exceptional cold that’s driven temps to -58C just east of the Urals while Arctic Scandinavia goes above freezing as Atlantic air floods the continent. Note the contrast between above normal in Scandinavia while well below normal to the east of the Urals. […]
Before I get into today’s topic, here’s WeatherBug and Weather.com’s forecast for white Christmas prospects. Afterall we do have a storm to contend with… Historic chances? There’s a high level of uncertainty as we head towards New Year and beyond. While the GFS and EPS Control show an Alaska to Greenland negative extending into the WESTERN […]
Extreme cold has been gradually drifting westward across Siberia in recent weeks with the thermometer dipping well into the -50s east, northeast of the Ural Mountains. Unfortunately the Middle East has been subject to a draft sweeping down from the north and this has only exasperated the vast human suffering already in place here. Northern sections of Syria and Iraq has seen heavy […]
Here’s an interesting read by Stuart Markham on the upcoming Atlantic duo set to strike the UK this Christmas weekend. Always good to get other perspective… MY THOUGHTS YESTERDAY: Atlantic To Deal Double Blow To UK/Ireland Christmas Weekend, 1st Storm Named! By Stuart Markham www.chorleyweather.com The Met Office have named storm Barbara which is expected […]
This morning’s Europe visible satellite view shows the UK separated north-south by two different air masses. The mild air can be seen streaming across southern Ireland, England and Wales with thicker cloud but arctic can be seen crossing Northern Ireland and Scotland with bumpy, broken high level cloud. This flow is unstable and producing heavy convective style rain, […]
Quick look back at Saturday and we saw a 136 degree swing between coldest and warmest. Changes afoot as we head for Christmas. Flow switches from Polar to Pacific. Another storm slides into the West bringing a potentially wet Christmas weekend from Seattle to San Diego, snowy into the Sierra and Intermountain West but mild […]
Thanks to some of the coldest December air in the last 20 years sweeping down over the U.S and now out into the open Atlantic, the jet stream has become super charged, accelerating beyond 200 mph. This jet shall fuel the rapid deepening of low pressure crossing the Atlantic, particularly nearer Ireland. Today into tonight sees gales cross […]
It will be a December Arctic Outbreak to remember with the strongest arctic front/air mass is descend over the Lower 48 in several years. For some it was the coldest December weather since 1996. This 3rd arctic air mass to descend North America within 10 days remained powerful with the aid of an expansive snowpack. Highlights Aberdeen, SD […]
It remains warm in the west with northern Scotland currently sitting at 12C at Altnaharra but on the other end of the continent, it remains bitter. High elevated and deeply snow covered Euzurum, eastern Turkey dropped to -35C overnight, nearing their December record of -37C. December so far Make the most of the quiet open to this week […]
Published Dec 18 2016 12:14 PM EST weather.com Story Highlights The second of two arctic cold blasts in the past week has plunged into the central and eastern states, setting more than two dozen record lows. Temperatures will be dangerously cold in some areas, with wind chills in the teens, 20s, 30s and 40s below […]
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