December 2019

A ‘bombogenesis’ cyclone travels across Iceland – a life-threatening situation with a significant amount of snow (100-200 cm) and hurricane-force winds across the northern half of the country, Dec 10-11th

December 10, 2019December 9, 2019 by Marko Korosec

As we discussed earlier – an active pattern across the North Atlantic – continues this week. A monster cyclone with pressure near or below 940 … Read more

Dangerous landfall of cyclone #BELNA is imminent for #Madagascar this afternoon

December 9, 2019 by Marko Korosec

Although cyclone #Belna is already weakening, it remains a large tropical system with strong Category 1 strength, located just north of Madagascar. Belna is packing … Read more

An impressive near 40 °C / 70 °F temperature contrast between the north and northeast United States on Tuesday, Dec 10th

December 9, 2019 by Marko Korosec

Here is a short update on the developing Arctic outbreak across the United States today. While extremely cold airmass spreads into the Dakotas and Great … Read more

Heat waves Windstorms attack Northern Europe, Arctic cold invades North America, but a whole nother beast threatens Australia, raising temperatures above 45°C!

December 9, 2019December 8, 2019 by Andrej Flis

While windstorms attack North Europe, and Arctic cold spills over North America, across the world down under in Australia heatwaves bring 40+°C temperatures day after … Read more

A new intense Arctic cold outbreak develops over the north-northeast United States through the next few days, Dec 8-12th

December 9, 2019December 7, 2019 by Marko Korosec

While more or less mild pattern continues across Europe with no significant signs of more intense winter weather or cold temperatures, at least Scandinavia had … Read more

A powerful windstorm with major waves will develop over Ireland, SW England, Wales and NW France tomorrow, another windstorm for western North Sea on Monday

December 7, 2019December 7, 2019 by Marko Korosec

While the North Atlantic becomes much more active with deep cyclones this weekend, large troughs also push into the western parts of Europe. This weekend’s … Read more

An impressive deep cyclone develops over the North Atlantic – leads into a powerful windstorm towards western Europe this weekend

December 7, 2019 by Marko Korosec

North Atlantic is becoming very active again as several very deep cyclones are in development and more of them are scheduled to form in the … Read more

Cyclone #BELNA is now a Category 2 and steadily organizing, expected to begin its rapid intensification soon and head towards devastating Madagascar landfall

December 7, 2019December 7, 2019 by Marko Korosec

Yet another potentially monster cyclone is developing further in the West Indian Ocean – Tropical cyclone #Belna. The system is currently packing maximum sustained winds … Read more