Winter 2016/17
I was at Celtic Park last night for the Barcelona game and it was certainly one of the colder nights at the football in several years for me. The previous two November visit to watch Barcelona brought near t-shirt warmth. Even at 8 and more so 9.40pm last night, there was a hard frost outside the […]
There have already been two noteworthy stratospheric warming events. Both of which have delivered cold to Asia and Europe but left North America out. November temp anomaly so far. Check out Eurasia vs North America! However could the model projected 3rd stratospheric warming event allow NA to join in on the cold? That’s of course IF […]
A strong blocking high is establishing itself over Scotland redirecting weather to the north and south and set to deliver a multiday stretch of silent winter conditions today through the first half of the weekend. With England, Wales, N France on the southern periphery of the high, a stiff to gale-force ENE wind is noticeable while it’s much more […]
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With the exception of last winter, the dominant Gulf of Alaska warm pool drove a warm Western/cold Eastern North America winter pattern from 2013 to 2015. The El Nino overruled everything last year. The lack of arctic sea ice those years on the North America/NE Asia side of the pole helped drive a strong blocking high from eastern equatorial […]
Recent winters here on the Europe side of the pole has seen strong Atlantic influence thanks to a strong polar vortex positioned between Greenland and Scandinavia which has driven a strong westerly flow into Western Europe with low pressure firmly anchored near Iceland. Why The Recent Warm, Wet, Stormy Winters And Why This Year Is Very Different This […]
The 2016-17’s first major winter storm certainly lived up to the billing. With record warmth flooding the country ahead of the storm and caused by the storm, to a significant blast of snow then cold. It wiped out record 70-80F warmth and dropped temperatures 25-35 degrees within 24 hours from Colorado to Vermont. Denver, CO went from a […]
What a difference a week makes in Aberdeenshire. Last Monday saw temperatures climb to a balmy 17C in Aboyne. This Monday morning? Braemar dipped to -12.1C. Our air flow from last Thursday through the past weekend can be traced back to Northern Greenland and Arctic. As this bitter air crosses an 8-12C ocean, moisture is picked up, hence the […]
With the help of snow cover, light wind and a clear, cold atmosphere, Loch Glascarnoch witnessed a Sunday AM minimum of -9.8C. This is the UK’s lowest November reading since the record cold end to November 2010 which marked the beginning of the UK’s coldest December on record. View from Loch Glascarnoch (Between Inverness-Ullapool). In stark contrast […]
The season is gradually changing shape as we head towards the final days of November. Ralph Fato pointed out that US snow cover has grown from 1 to 19% within just 2/3 days thanks to the Rockies, Plains snowstorm that’s now transferring into the Northeast. Totals were most impressive in NE Minnesota where there was […]
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