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Conditions are looking increasingly wintry for some parts of the country overnight. A cold polar maritime air mass is expected to produce wintry showers across western and northern areas. The Met Office have weather warnings in force for Snow & ice for western Scotland, north west England, Northern Ireland, and much of Wales. The Met…

The jet stream is about to become unusually strong. The following chart shows the position and intensity of the jet stream this Sunday, the 9th of February 2020. Notice it’s intensity – indeed off the scale for this particular chart, indicating jet stream speeds likely near 200mph. Whilst these winds speeds are at jet stream…

Best viewing: North America Early on Tuesday, 18th of February, a phenomenon known as a “Lunar Occulation” is set to occur. This occurs when the view of Mars from Earth becomes skewed by the Moon itself – a lunar occulation of mars. “Mars and Moon” by cafuego is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Given clear…

An unusual weather pattern in recent days has produced unusually cold temperatures in Spain. High pressure has been in charge across the UK, and to the south of the high, easterly winds have been raging across Spain. Such Easterly winds have driven in much colder than average temperatures, in fact close to 10C below normal…

Victoria, South Eastern Australia, has been subject to a range of severe conditions in recent days / weeks. Recent bush fires causes shear devastation, burning as many as 800 million animals, as estimated by the University of Sydney. Concerns recently, however, have switched to a different phenomenon altogether: rainfall / storms. A large storm touched…

It’s currently snowing heavily in New York City! Around 2cm has accumulated so far, not enough to produce any travel issues as of yet.       The latest precipitation radar, courtesy of NOAA (below), shows that a rather heavy band of snow is currently affecting the NYC Metro region. This is currently producing snowfall…