Winter 2016/17
When bitter winds blow WNW across an ice free Lake Ontario, heavy, narrow bands of snow get picked up and stream into Western New York for hours, even days on end. In the last 10 days, favoured upslope areas rising inland from Lake Ontario have seen incredible snow totals. NY’s snow famed Tug Hill Plateau region has witnessed upwards of 74″ within 3 days and 120″ […]
By Linda Lam Feb 5 2017 03:45 PM EST weather.com Story Highlights Widespread above-average temperatures may bring some record highs early this week. Cold conditions will return to the northern tier and much of the East mid-to-late week. An active weather pattern will bring widespread and noticeable temperature changes to much of the U.S. in […]
Carried by a super charged 245 mph jet stream, a rapidly deepening depression entered the Bay of Biscay Friday and slammed the central Atlantic Coast of France and Iberia Friday night into Saturday packing severe winds, heavy flooding rain and mountain snow. One of Spain’s hardest hit areas was Galicia. The potent zonal jet and surrounding atmospheric environment helped rapidly deepen […]
By Linda Lam Feb 1 2017 05:15 PM EST weather.com Story Highlights January 2017 was one of the warmest on record for many areas of the East. Locations in California and the South that desperately needed rain experienced a record wet month. January was much wetter and warmer than average for parts of the United […]
Since I’m taking some time off, I thought I would share an interesting read from Stuart Markham at chorleyweather.com on the current situation. By Stuart Markham As you are probably aware from the past weeks, we have issued information regarding a major warming in the polar stratosphere, which may lead to a colder pattern at some point […]
My wife Karen and I would like to introduce you to our new arrival, Charlotte Alison Vogan who was born at 13.04 Thursday 2 February 2017 at the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital in Glasgow. Our little groundhog baby 🙂 weighed in at 7.10.
Today is the lull before the storm the first in a conveyor of depressions sweep in off the Atlantic. The Atlantic jet has picked up incredible strength this week. The SOUTHERN UK/NORTHWEST France appears to be in the centre of the barrel but models are still wavering with exact track, hence why there is no names given to the two deepening lows spinning […]
The Western US has enjoyed bright, sunny days this past weekend following a wild and wet first 20 days of January. This high pressure respite is about to end as a 200+ mph Pacific jet is about to drive more storms across California and the West. An additional 2-4ft expected in the already buried High Sierra around […]
We’re ending January with a stratospheric warming event as temperatures have risen 60C at within the past week at 10mb over the Arctic. This is within SSWE criteria. AO will go negative in response! Not related but it was a cold start to this morning over Highland Scotland with -10C recorded at Braemar but in contrast, it was 20C warmer on the SW coast of England. […]
For the last 10-15 days, storms have pounded California and the West almost constantly while Pacific air sweeping out ahead of each system has reinforced the eastern ridge and January thaw. It’s been a perfect open to 2017 for California. As we enter the weekend, we have quite the different upper air pattern to what we’ve been use to thanks to […]
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