United Kingdom & Ireland
It’s a textbook ‘beast from the east’ pattern with our entire Northern Hemisphere atmosphere reversed following the major mid February SSW. https://twitter.com/MarkVogan/status/968432861643792384 Winds are blowing westwards from Siberia across Europe and will reach North America by late week. Pressure within the Scandinavia high pressure wheel has reached 1055mb and is likely still strengthening. Low pressure over the […]
It’s safe to say we have a very wintry, potentially worst week ahead with persistent easterlies winds driving frequent ‘sea effect’ snow showers in off the North Sea with enhanced polar-low system snow propagating westwards. So, the wait is over and the stage is set. Can I just say, what a textbook example of a Siberian blast […]
I’m trying to avoid hype as the papers and social media do enough of that but now that the SSWE has occurred, we now await the blast from Siberia (due late weekend). Interestingly all the models are now coming together with a very impressive period of cold weather ahead for both UK and Europe with […]
December and January turned out average to warmer than normal across Europe and the UK ‘overall’ but certainly this big picture doesn’t tell the whole story as there have been frequent colder periods ‘locally’. January anomaly However, the large-scale trend shifted firmly to colder in February. Despite a warmer than normal Dec-Jan period, there have […]
The vicious combination of gale-force winds and snowfall created white out conditions across parts of the Highland road network Wednesday. Atrocious conditions were observed in the hills where gusts exceeded 100 mph over the Cairngorms. The worst affected area was along the A82 between Rannoch Moor and Glencoe. The A9 was also subject to serious […]
According to ITV weather guru Liam Dutton, the UK experiences a prolonged cold period 66% of the time following a sudden stratospheric warming event. The last time it occurred was January 2013. So happens February was cold and March was the UK’s coldest in 50 years. The time before that? 2009 and our coldest December […]
I can’t deny that yesterday’s snow forecast for overnight and this morning was a complete bust at low levels. There was nothing when I had thought there would be a lot. Certainly further north and higher roads further south didn’t escape. Snow disrupts flights at #Inverness Airport, travel on #A9 and #A82 and also shuts […]
It’s been another snowy night/morning across much of Scotland including the Central Belt thanks to hefty snow showers blowing in on a cold WNW wind. Milton of Campsie last night. Kilsyth around 5.45am this morning. Lengthy clear spells in between the showers mean icy conditions and a freeze of the snow on the ground with […]
Blog post by Stu Ostro Is the relatively recent attention warranted? Is this meteorological term becoming part of the vernacular a good thing or not? Is it always the culprit of frigid arctic outbreaks? For that matter, what the actual heck is the polar vortex? The answer? Like many things in our world, #ItsComplicated. The […]
The next Atlantic front is pushing across the UK over the next 24 hours and guess what, there’s polar maritime air in it’s wake so the 7-10C of today will be more like 2-7C tomorrow with any snow to all levels across Scotland. Note the difference in 850 temp between 12 noon today and tomorrow! […]
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