March 2020

First days of April 2020 with very cold and frosty mornings in many areas – HIGH RISK for damaging frost

March 31, 2020 by Marko Korosec

We are again experiencing very cold nights and mornings this week, as widespread cold outbreak swept through a large part of our continent on Sunday … Read more

#COVID-19 update: Significant decline in global air traffic continues – the number of flights at the end of March is more than 60% lower than normal

March 30, 2020 by Marko Korosec

As we discussed a week ago, there is an obvious substantial decline in global air traffic, followed by the restrictions and national lockdowns during the … Read more

A much colder air mass is now spreading across Europe – cold outbreak will intensify across east-central Europe through Monday and Tuesday

March 29, 2020 by Marko Korosec

A strong cold advection is spreading across Europe this evening, associated with the cold outbreak. The event is intensifying tonight into early this coming week. … Read more

Several tornadoes hit Midwest (USA) on Saturday evening – destructive tornado rips through the city of Jonesboro (Arkansas) and leaves at least 6 injured

March 29, 2020 by Marko Korosec

As we were expecting, favorable conditions for severe weather outbreak verified across the Midwest yesterday afternoon an evening hours, Saturday March 28th. Several tornadoes have … Read more

Arctic After reaching the largest sea ice extent in the past 8 years, the Arctic sea ice is now in an unusually rapid ice melt phase, starting the melt season

May 23, 2020March 28, 2020 by Andrej Flis

Arctic sea ice has reached its maximum extent in early March. The ice melt season has begun, with rapid ice loss, as warmer air reaches … Read more

A severe weather outbreak with very large hail and strong tornadoes possible across Midwest (United States) tonight, March 28th

March 28, 2020 by Marko Korosec

A significant severe weather outbreak seems possible across far eastern Iowa, northeast Missouri into north-central Illinois and northwest Indiana, United States through late this afternoon/evening … Read more

A very strong upper ridge develops a monster high-pressure system over the North Atlantic – near 1055 mbar in its center on Sunday

March 28, 2020 by Marko Korosec

Contrary to the much above normal activity of North Atlantic troughs and extremely deep surface cyclones over the past few months, the NAO index flips … Read more

Very high values of dangerous Particulate Matter (#PM10) air pollutants across Europe this weekend

March 28, 2020March 27, 2020 by Marko Korosec

Like there is not enough stress along with the ongoing COVID-19 virus outbreak this spring, strong cold outbreak across Europe and now the significantly PM10 … Read more