Spectacular mesovortices within the core of monster North Atlantic cyclone – the system has matured today and is now moving into Iceland
A very large North Atlantic depression has peaked today. It reached 953 mbar with the rapid intensification completed on Sunday morning. It, yet again, delivered a spectacular satellite presentation...
A rapidly intensifying extratropical cyclone in the North Atlantic this weekend – broad severe winds towards WNW Europe
It’s been about a week since the last deep cyclone over the North Atlantic, as strong ridge developed over the last days. To the west of the ridge, a...
Exceptional but very didactic NASA Terra-MODIS satellite imagery of the Arctic region
Daylight is slowly expanding towards the Polar region as we’re going further into spring. This means we can observe some pretty spectacular imagery on the Arctic region sea ice...
Spectacular details of Arctic air mass advection from the ice shield towards the North Atlantic
At the end of the Northern hemisphere winter (end of February into early March) there is usually the annual maximum extent of the sea ice around the Arctic region....
Extra-tropical storm #Dennis in its final stage, moving towards Scandinavia while gradually weakening
We are at the final stage of large cyclone #Dennis tonight through Monday. While it continues moving east into northern Europe, it is weakening and delivering severe winds into...
Extremely deep 920 mbar and powerful extra-tropical storm #Dennis brings the title ‘The perfect storm’ back to North Atlantic – heading towards the northern UK on Sunday
The ‘bomb cyclone’ #Dennis took it seriously, no doubt about that. What we have seen today (Saturday, Feb 15th) is indeed beyond exceptional and photogenic for extra-tropical cyclones no...
*UPDATE* on the most intense North Atlantic storm of the season – an extremely rapid intensification of the ‘bomb cyclone’ #DENNIS is underway!
The bombogenesis / explosive cyclogenesis #Dennis is underway across the North Atlantic this morning, centered northwest of Ireland. The intensification rate is very extreme as the observed pressure falls...
A ‘bomb cyclone’ #Dennis could challenge the most intense North Atlantic cyclones on record this weekend – expected to bottom at around 915 mbar and push a severe windstorm towards western Europe
A new intense North Atlantic windstorm #Dennis could potentially push its central pressure to near or even below 915 mbar tomorrow, challenging the all-time lowest pressure record. The record-holder...