Snow has been a feature of the weather several times during the autumn with snowfall of 28th October the heaviest and most extensive in southern England since 1880 according to Philip Eden. The Lecht Ski Centre has opened on two weekends and provided mid-week skiing too and Cainrngorm has also been open the weekend of 1 [...]
The snowfalls yesterday 29 October first brought difficult driving conditions on the A9 south of Inverness and other high-level roads in NE Scotland early in the day, then sleet & snow spread into Northern Ireland and Wales in the morning, the Midlands during the afternoon and into the Home Counties and SE England during the [...]
One of the many amazing benefits of the internet is the free access to the output of the main Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models in the world: GFS (the US model); ECMWF (the European model); UKMET (the UK model) and others. These enable you to see weather predictions for further ahead than conventional weather [...]
