Only been a member of this forum since December 27th this year, so I haven't got to know anybody yet, but it doesn't stop me from wishing all members here a very happy, healthy, snowy, cold, northern blocked beasterly new year.
People really could do with some drier weather, what with all the flooding, but more rain seems to be the model message tonight. I thought stormy mild winters were a thing of the past, but they still crop up every two or three years, which is far better than when they were the norm i guess.
Tomorrow afternoon when you wake up from your hangover, the polar vortex will be forecast to split and a cold spell will be forecast for mid January. Or is that the drink talking.
Been around since the summer, feels comfortable and cannot be bothered to move, although it will probably bugger off during the summer, making last summer a one off. I don't think i am going to get to use this little guy this winter.
Things have to change over Canada and North America. Way too much deeply cold air flooding into the North Atlantic and mixing with warmer waters, if this continues, then so does the storm onslaught. I......guess
Weatherweb tv mentioned a cold snap in the middle of January. CFS is going for one too, but a brief one which may be extended due to the predicted Stratospheric Warming. As long as I get a fix of ice and snow, then I'm happy. Those snowless winters with 14 degrees in February in the 1990's were awful.
Sorry John, that's me being lazy. Indeed, stratospheric warming. Last year we had sudden stratospheric warming that brought us cold and snow, this years is slower, can it still produce the goods?
SW will hopefully be large enough over Greenland and Newfoundland to disrupt the polar vortex. If we are really lucky, it will split it, then we should prepare for a colder second half of January with the S word creeping into the forecast. Until then, the models will continue to churn out atlantic storms and mild weather. Poor wildlife, the animals and insects think it is spring.
Storm after storm is the message of the models. However, they will be taking a different route towards the UK leading to brief northerly outbreaks and maybe some of the white stuff.
The cold keeps getting pushed further and further into January. It was looking as though snow would be falling on the 10th of January, now not looking so likely.
It can still snow when it's rather cold. Or would we need a northerly instead of an E/NE for our best chance of snow, considering that the continent is milder than usual?