United Kingdom & Ireland
The snow we’ve seen fall widely across the UK and Ireland in recent days has produced this false colour image from space below. The red of course distinguishing snow from cloud. Though pretty sparse for many, there’s still a large enough coverage of this highly reflective surface in which maximum heat loss into space can […]
By purely looking at the UK snow depth/cover at the end of each day from tomorrow through Friday, the focus of snow according to the latest run of the GFS is over the Scottish Highlands/Southern Uplands, N Pennines, Midlands and much of Wales away from the coast. Scotland will see snow from an incoming front […]
We’ve said good bye to the mild and hello to the polar maritime once again. The polar maritime air will be whisling down from the north throughout today with winds gusting 40-50 mph widely. This reintroduces a tricky rain, sleet and snow scenario as the cold air is mixed with ocean air. As you can […]
Up until the 20th, January, like December has been tame. Milder than expected? Yes because I believed the month would turn and turn severe. We remain in a westerly driven pattern and that was not expected by this stage, especially when taking into account the sudden stratospheric warming event which occurred around Christmas with a […]
Many parts of Scotland including myself woke this morning to the first blanket of snow ahead of potentially the coldest night of winter tonight. However, many may be asking, what happened to the ‘beast from the east’ or Greenland block? After all our weather continues to come in from the west. Instead of this… We’ve […]
Well it’s safe to say the cold which was expected to intensify this week into the upcoming weekend is not going to show and in fact it turns milder not colder by Friday. On a plus, it’s a temporary push of mild. The reason? That storm system exiting Canada has not forced sharp height rises […]
We all know it’s turning colder as a direct consequence of the late December sudden stratospheric warming. In fact as our tropospheric winds reverse from west to east, the stratospheric winds are returning to a westerly as the vortex up at 10hpa begins to recover. Thankfully for cold weather lovers like myself, this cold spell […]
GFS snow through the next 10 days. GFS ensemble 2m temp anomaly
There’s an argument to be had. Is the extreme, meridional upper air pattern over Europe to open 2019 a response of the sudden stratospheric warming which peaked around Christmas with split occurring around January 1-2? I believe there’s at least some sort of linkage given that one of the two, maybe three split daughter vortexes […]
Huge snowfall buries Alps as upper level winds turn easterly allowing Siberian air to head westwards
The much anticipated colder, snowier pattern has emerged and progresses south, southwestwards into central and southern Europe. Stopping it from spreading westwards is a very strong ridge anchored over the British Isles which reached record strength as we greeted 2019. This pressure pattern has resulted in a rather mundane Christmas to New Year period here […]
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