A widespread cold air mass advection is underway towards central Europe – cold outbreak intensifying tomorrow while spreading into the Mediterranean
A powerful high-pressure system is dominating much of Europe today, centered over the Baltic region. With northeasterly winds along the southeastern flank of the ridge, a much colder air...
Cold outbreak with the significant temperature drop in the next days – *HIGH risk* for damaging frost of fruit trees across west-central Europe, Italy and the Balkans
All models are in very good agreement we will be facing a powerful and very dangerous cold outbreak from Sunday through Thursday. An advection of extremely cold late March...
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...
Rex block pattern develops a dangerous Arctic outbreak across east-central Europe after Sunday – much colder weather is expected
A large part of Europe is facing a very warm period this week, as a strong Omega blocking pattern has established. But a significant pattern change is coming up...
*BRUTAL* cold in Yakutia, Russia in the past days – several stations reported 55-57 °C below zero!
Northeastern Russia (Yakutia region, Siberia) is a well-known place for extreme cold, with the Verkhoyansk Range being the coldest area in the Northern Hemisphere. Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk are the...
An extreme 40+ degrees temperature difference over Scandinavia – around +5 °c in south Finland vs below -35 °C in Lapland
This morning, a huge temperature difference occurred over Finland. The extreme north Lapland station Utsjoki Nuorgam reported -36 °C while the capital Helsinki in far south Finland reported +5...
*FRIGID* cold spreads across northeast Russia in these days – down to -54 °C has already been reported in Verhojansk!
An intense Arctic outbreak has developed over parts of Russia lately. During the mid/late November temperatures usually already drop below -25 to -30 °C, but NE parts of Russia...
Unusually warm weather continues across eastern Europe and western Russia until early next week
As discussed earlier this week, current pattern supports a powerful blocking ridge with an intense ‘heatwave’ developed over eastern Europe, resulting in usually very warm afternoon temperatures across E...