Winter 2016/17
From the frozen Venice Canals to snow on the beaches of Greece, January 2017 will join 2006 and 2012 for it’s brutal central and eastern Europe cold. Something this website stated was a possibility back on Nov 1. Scene from a frozen Vatican. Deep snow buries Istanbul Sofia Moscow Looks like a summer’s day until you see the […]
While the truly arctic air lifts out of the Lower 48, it’s regrouping and intensifying up across Alaska and Northern Canada. For the Alaskan interior, including Fairbanks, Wednesday morning was the coldest of winter and coldest in 5 years! Fairbanks recorded an official low of -50F this morning, coldest in 5 years when it hit -51F back on January 29, 2012. Interestingly this […]
Arctic Outbreak of January 2017 round 2 is well underway with focus shifted into Southwest Europe as the coldest weather of the year drives across France Spain and the Western Med. Here’s the setup responsible for Spain getting a taste of Siberia this week. High pressure positioned over N France has mild Atlantic air running over top into the Northern […]
What a difference 10 days makes! The last round of excessive rain and snowfall essentially ended the California drought north of I-80, that’s 40% but drought remains in Southern California. San Francisco got more rain in the first 8 days of 2017 than in all of 2013! With 350 billion gallons of water pouring into Northern California lakes […]
It’s a weird, wacky and highly upside down winter pattern we continue to experience over Europe. On the northern flank of a 1040+ high extending from France east to Poland, warm, moist Atlantic air is streaming across Northern Ireland and Scotland. Temps of +10-12C are reaching Shetland while on the southern flank of the high with the help of a large low spinning over the central Med, […]
While the European cold pool may have lost it’s extreme, the after effects remain. While Atlantic air is moderating the UK eastward across Germany, Poland into Russia, all the cold air which has built up in the past week to 10 days has essentially sloshed and bottled up across Southern Europe thanks to building heights over top. Notice this […]
By Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather meteorologist 1/13/2017, 9:37:01 PM Extreme weather hit the West this week, with the heaviest snow and rain in years — and some flooding that exceeded levels established in 1940. Here are the most impressive snowfalls (via OnTheSnow.com and the ski slope’s websites and Facebook pages): Mammoth Mountain, CA: 184 inches (15.3 […]
Record cold and snow by Philip Eden Disruptive snowstorms in the UK during the last ten years can be counted on the fingers of one hand, in marked contrast to the 1980s when they were two a penny. One of the most interesting winters that decade happened exactly twenty years ago, in 1981-1982, when many […]
Friday is another cold one with strong to gale-force northerly winds (especially down the North Sea Coast) while heavy snow along with the strong winds across Highland Scotland is making for blizzard conditions and very tricky driving conditions. Most prone ‘snowy routes’ have been closed due to heavy snow and blowing and drifting. Powerful northerly winds running down the North […]
Firstly, here’s two interesting article titles produced by the same journalist 8 months apart! After ‘years’ of poor rainy seasons and worsening drought, 2017 has started like a dream for California, if not a little too much too quick. While low elevations over parts of Northern/Central California has seen up to a foot of rain, […]
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