Any weather experts?

[pokerjoke]

I see that some places in America are having there worst storms ever of snow
and freezing temperatures.
Im sure I read somewhere that we can get there weather sometimes a couple
of weeks after due to the airflow.
I certainly hope not im starting to feel like Jack Nicholson in The Shining.
Any weather experts

 

[Foxholer]

I see that some places in America are having there worst storms ever of snow
and freezing temperatures.
Im sure I read somewhere that we can get there weather sometimes a couple
of weeks after due to the airflow.
I certainly hope not im starting to feel like Jack Nicholson in The Shining.
Any weather experts

Depends what part of America!

America is a somewhat larger place than UK!

Weather in North of East Coast of USA MIGHT be an INDICATION of what COULD end up over UK, but UK weather is also very much by what's happening in Med, and Russia areas (amongst others) too.

At least the cries of Global Warming/Climate Change (which IS happening) being the cause are not as loud as in the past! Though maybe that's the only way the politicians will do anything about it!

 

[Dodger]

I see that some places in America are having there worst storms ever of snow
and freezing temperatures.
Im sure I read somewhere that we can get there weather sometimes a couple
of weeks after due to the airflow.
I certainly hope not im starting to feel like Jack Nicholson in The Shining.
Any weather experts

Old wives tale that.

 

[upsidedown]

Our weather depends on where it's coming from, the diagram gives a broad outline and as Foxholer says it depends on the interaction between the air masses. The biggest dump of snow I've experienced came from a South west air mass colliding with a powerful cold high when it snowed for 24 hours +

 

[MegaSteve]

I vaguely remember being told the winter of '63 was a 'present' from Russia...

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

In UK - two days out of three tomorrow's weather will be the same as today's. That's my rule of thumb. Today in Glasgow is pretty much the same as yesterday (pretty rubbish) so I'm going for tomorrow to be better.

 

[Andy808]

The jet stream and the Gulf stream have far too much influance on the weather for that to be true. The only thing we do get is the depressions sweeping across from the other side of the Atlantic but they usually warm up over the sea and dump a ton of rain on us not the snow the eastern sea board of the states has had.
If we are going to get snow then it normally coincides with a larger high forming over the middle of Europe dragging the cold air from Russia over to us and as the weather fronts from the Atlantic hit them we get snow. If the high gets big enough then we have very cold but dry weather settling over the UK. This normally happens in mid to late January as the north Atlantic has cooled and stopped forming huge depressions that sweep over us during the Autumn and early winter.
In the summer we have to have the Azores high move up from the Azores for us to get the hot summer weather we like so much for playing golf and holidays on the beach. The downside to this is we then have the large storm clouds that form over southern Europe tracking up on the edge of the Azores high.

 

[chrisd]

I vaguely remember being told the winter of '63 was a 'present' from Russia...

I dunno where it came from but it started snowing in Croydon where I lived on Boxing Day and didn't stop for 6 weeks! I don't remember a single day off school because of it, it was horrendous !

 

[In_The_Rough]

I dunno where it came from but it started snowing in Croydon where I lived on Boxing Day and didn't stop for 6 weeks! I don't remember a single day off school because of it, it was horrendous !

Imagine if this happened nowadays. The country would be a state of emergency. My parents told me about one particular winter in the 1940's I think it was where the snow was a high as double decker buses

 

[delc]

I see that some places in America are having there worst storms ever of snow
and freezing temperatures.
Im sure I read somewhere that we can get there weather sometimes a couple
of weeks after due to the airflow.
I certainly hope not im starting to feel like Jack Nicholson in The Shining.
Any weather experts

There is currently a big temperature difference between the arctic air over Canada and the Northern States of the US and the warmer air further South. This is spawning a series of deep depressions which then travel Eastwards towards the UK carried by the jet stream, a high level wind that runs along the boundary between two airmasses. Last winter the jet stream ran to the south of the UK, so we where in the cold Arctic air, which is why it was so cold. This year the jet stream is running over or just to the North of the UK, so we getting relatively warm, but very wet and windy weather (so far anyway). There is some truth in the idea that whatever weather the US gets, we will get a fee days later, as weather systems tend to travel from West to East.