On Weather & Climate Through the Eyes of Mark Vogan
NORTHERN IRELAND TURNED INTO A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY AFTER WORST COLDWAVE IN LIVING MEMORY. WHO'S LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE WATER?
Water shortage pushes Northern Ireland to brink of health crisis
Belfast Telegraph
Leaders 'let down' as 36,000 struggle in water crisis
BBC
Coldest Swedish December In 110 Years – Contradicts Recent “Detailed” Projections Of Warm Winters
No Tricks Zone
Did your central heating break down in the big freeze? Here's why...
Daily Mail
Grey skies see 2010 end with a whimper: Drizzle expected until January with freezing weather returning in New Year
Daily Mail
A Depressing end to 2010 as Britain blanketed under a heavy, misty cold blanket as mild Atlantic air flows over a cold, icy, snowy landscape creating that dull, gloomy stagnant sky!
Foggy London town: The capital's most famous landmarks are almost obscured by the gloomy weather
(Daily Mail)
Today's Weather across America
From AccuWeather
New Jersey State Snowfall Record Worth a Closer Look
AccuWeather
Severe Weather Returns to the South Friday
AccuWeather
Watching For A Northern Plains New Year's Blizzard
AccuWeather
Warmer Air Has Wings For The East
AccuWeather
Weather Talk
By Mark Vogan
AMERICA TO COOL IN WEST, WARM IN THE EAST
As you can see from the AccuWeather graphic below, a new trough will dive into the heart of the Great Basin around New Year bringing a surge of frigid air down from the Arctic. At the same time, ridging will counteract the western trough and thus 60s and even 70s will rule the Southeast with 40s and 50 stretching northeastwards into the Northeast.
AFTER BRITAIN FLIRTED WITH NORMAL TEMPERATURES THIS WEEK, COLD AIR WILL RETURN FOR NEW YEAR AND NEXT WEEK
The AccuWeather graphic below shows the milder Atlantic air that has brought some relief this week to the UK and western Europe, albeit, modest since the ground is frozen and there's a lot of snow which has refridgerated the Atlantic's southwest wind flow and meant that though southwest England and western areas of Britain have seen highs top between 8-12C, as those winds have blown across the frozen, snowfields of the UK and melted much of the snow, by the time they reach Manchester the air's only mustered 2-3C for highs, 1-2C east of the Pennines in places such as York and Newcastle. Easterlies blowing in off the North Sea has certainly made the thaw only noticable with snowmelt, certainly not the feel of the air.
The ECMWF graphic shows the current upper-atmospheric pattern across the UK, noteice the yellow blob over Britain? That's the milder Atlantic air pushing up via ridging. The blue blob over central-eastern Europe is the Arctic pool of air which was over us at Christmas.
What's Reaching Today's Blogs?
More Florida and Caribbean Cold
Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather
What Will Your New Year's Eve Weather Be Like?
Ken Clark, Western Expert, AccuWeather
A Big Snowstorm for Many Areas from Denver to Minneapolis
Henry Margusity, AccuWeather
The Extremes of the Day
Today's US Extremes
Courtesy of AccuWeather
High: 85 degrees at Edinburg, TX
Low: -5 degrees at Berlin, NH
Today's UK Extremes
Courtesy of the Met Office
High: 52 degrees (11C) at Ballykelly (Co Londonderry)
Cold High: 35 degrees (1.7C) at Strathallan (Perthshire)
Low: 31 degrees (-0.7C) at Albemarle
Today's Extremes here at my house
High: 37 degrees
Low: 33 degrees
TODAY'S CONDITIONS
Snowcover: non officially, old snow/ice piles remain
Mild Atlantic air clashing with a cold ground continues to produce a very misty, murky and heavily overcast and damp sky with off and on rain showers. Remaining modestly mild.
Thanks for reading.
-Mark
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