United Kingdom & Ireland
It’s been a weird and wacky week of weather. We commenced the week with night lows of 14C and afternoons up to 17C, now it’s icy wind, rain, sleet and snow showers. Unusual? No but tornadoes? Blame a late November strength cold front driving into an unusually warm, humid air mass. Doesn’t take much within the […]
This has been the SSTA profile the past few years. Very warm N Pacific. Very cold central North Atlantic This has been the resulting winter pattern for Europe thanks to the above SSTA profile. But this year with the opposite showing, this is where I think we’re going in 2016-17. A Rough Guide to the Jet Stream: […]
The seesaw is ready to swing the other way as the warm air currently over the UK will be over snowbound Romania, Ukraine and W Russia by late weekend as seen from the below GFS 2m temp anomaly charts. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Last night and tonight are the coldest of the season for eastern Europe, especially over deep snow cover. […]
We’ve reached mid November and we have a classic autumnal rollercoaster of weather this week. With a jet stream to the north and stiff southwesterly, the UK is starting off the week downright warm while on the opposite end of the continent, Ukraine and Southeast Europe is digging out. The below GFS 850mb temp chart shows […]
The Arctic air which opened November from UK to Germany is getting pushed east and replaced by Atlantic air. While last week saw daytime highs only muster 3-6C from Glasgow to Berlin, the return of southwest winds have forced a 6-8, locally 10C temperature rise. The UK may be back in the 11-15C range with rain spreading […]
It was only a matter of time before the Siberian surface high exploded towards 1060mb following the incredible snow growth of the past 4 weeks. The GFS next week builds the high to at least 1056, generating a widespread 10-20 CELCIUS below normal across southern Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. 24-26C below normal is pretty incredible! […]
There’s no denying the current linkage between the mighty Eurasian snowpack we’ve built up, weak polar vortex and sustained -AO. Weak polar vortexes don’t take much to split, break or completely collapse and modelling appears to be hinting at another split in late November. In the last split in late October, caused by a heat […]
While the UK’s experienced an early snowfall, Scandinavia has endured major snow and cold. Stockholm just had snowiest November day in 111 years Published: 10 Nov 2016 06:51 GMT+01:00 THE LOCAL SE The Swedish capital had more snow than on any November day in a century. Proof Swedes may actually be the toughest people on […]
We’re not only waking up to the news that Trump has been elected as the 45th US president but some are waking to snow this morning and it continues to snow in a few spots. Not only have it been confined to high ground but snow covers the ground in parts of Glasgow. Heading home from Cumbernauld last […]
Snowing now! A9 Drumochter A82 Glen Coe ORIGINAL POST There’s plenty of cold dense air in place over the UK ahead of an approaching Atlantic front. The stage is set for the first significant hill snow event of the 2016-17 winter. Expect rain to change over to snow, especially above 800-1,000ft through today with significant accumulation (3-6 […]
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