United Kingdom & Ireland
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 […]
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 […]
As forecast, a deep low passing just north of the Scottish mainland is producing a rough day from Caithness southward into Northern England with strong, gusty gale-force winds which are driving in frequent showers of rain, sleet, hail and snow as well as thunder and lightning. Winds were gusty overnight with the passage of the cold front! While winds gusted […]
Frustrated at the mild weather we’ve been having while North America and eastern Europe shiver whilst they dig out? I feel your pain but at least we have something a little more January-like coming up this week. It’s an unsettled open to the next workweek with gales or severe gales affecting the Northern half of […]
As well as the brutal cold gripping central, eastern and southern Europe, powerful ‘bora’ winds are fuelling major ‘sea effect’ snowfall over the Adriatic and dumping huge snows in eastern and southern Italy. Saturday AM air temps. Wind chill at 3:50, check out the Adriatic and Med coasts! Wind chills as of 8:10 Saturday CZARNY DUNAJEC – PUŚCIZNA […]
Central, Eastern and indeed increasingly SOUTHERN Europe is under a major Arctic/Siberia cold outbreak all the while Atlantic air keeps the UK balmy. Almost the entire far north of Eurasia dropped below -35C last night with many getting to -45C or below. Arkhangelsk and Koynas (both European Russia) hit -41.3C and -47.6C respectively which was both their coldest […]
Fierce cold has moved into Arctic Scandinavia providing the coldest morning of winter. At 830 UTC this morning , it was -41C in Norway, -38C in Finland and -34C Sweden. UPDATED WEDNESDAY EVENING… Tonight is still early but it’s already colder than this morning… CURRENTLY -42.4C at Kautokeino, Norway, -39C at Inari Vayla, Finland, the wind […]
We have a nice twin REX and OMEGA blocking teleconnection in place and developing. One block with low underneath is over the N Pacific and the other over the NE Atlantic extending into the UK with two very cold air masses diving into Western North America and the other, Eastern Europe. Current rex block over both NW NAMER and NE […]
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