Winter 2016/17
After a very mild, spring-like 18.3C at Kew Gardens and Northolt Monday, the increasingly turbulent Atlantic is ready to pounce and this process is already showing this afternoon. As winds increase, so the rains sweep in and the temperature decreases through today. Following the band of rain associated with the cold front, blustery showers follow turning increasingly to snow over high ground. The trans-Atlantic […]
The latest wind/rain/snowstorm to strike California is doing so as expected. Interestingly the rain which has fallen so far in Downtown San Francisco has exceeded the city’s annual average. The last time SF has done this was March 24, 2011, so a full month earlier than previous. Nice moisture plume connecting Hawaii with San Francisco […]
It’s a mild day for February out there with a mixture of sun, cloud and outbreaks of rain. The key component to the unusual warmth in which several recording sites are reading 17C at this hour is courtesy of strong and gusty west wind. While many are in the 10-13C range (still very mild), it’s areas to the lee or […]
First it was Northern California which got the constant hammering in January, then it was Southern California’s turn late last week and now the Atmospheric River has repositioned back into Northern California. The Friday storm which is said to have been SoCal’s strongest since December 2010 brought 108 mph gusts to the Grapevine along with heavy flooding rain […]
I see the papers are at it again with their extreme hype of shear nonsense. The Sun/Star/Daily Record are saying tomorrow (Monday) will be the UK’s ‘hottest February day in 160 years’. Hum, firstly our official records only date back to 1910 and 18C would NOT be a UK record either. If my maths serves […]
BELOW ARTICLE By Jon Erdman Feb 18 2017 03:30 PM EST weather.com Story Highlights The first of two powerful storms is moving into the Southwest. Additional showers and mountain snow are expected in Southern California into Saturday. A second storm will bring heavy rain and mountain snow early next week to Northern California. It’s been […]
When looking back through the more recent years (back to 2000), I think this winter was closest to 2011-12 with blocking high pressure predominantly over the NE Atlantic with extension into the UK and Scandinavia while cold air frequently swept underneath bringing a colder than normal January to France and Spain as well as SE England. Like […]
Big time wind as well as rain expected from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. Ahead of this storm, all river basins in the Sierra are running OVER 200% of normal snow water equivalent! The push of Pacific energy into the West Coast will translate to gusty downslope west wind and record warmth as a result over […]
The blocking high remains dominant over Europe which is essentially holding back the gather Atlantic low pressure traffic back with only soft glancing blows through the remainder of this week for the Northwest. Nice visible satellite view of a busy North Atlantic. As the Atlantic pattern sluggishly returns to the UK resumes, ridging regroups at the more traditional […]
Pacific storms slamming the Western US helped drive temperatures to historic levels east of the Rockies with Denver hits 80F for the first time in February while Oklahoma ties it’s February record with an astonishing 99F. Where it got warm along the Front Range, it turned downright hot on the Plains! 99 degrees ties the […]
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