The Russian High

nacho libre

Is M.T. Cranium expecting the Russian high to deliver sometime in January, following a strat warming, that forces the high, or an extension of it, to migrate far enough west, to advect colder weather from the east towards us?

With this in mind, when was the last time a Russian high moved far enough west to influence our weather?

DOCARCH

Last winter. Except we did just did not make 'into' the cold air - the cold air, at its closest was aboyt 50 miles off the east coast.

nacho libre

DOCARCH wrote: »

Last winter. Except we did just did not make 'into' the cold air - the cold air, at its closest was aboyt 50 miles off the east coast.

I meant when was the last time there wasn't a near miss, that we actually got a Siberian blast courtesy of the Russian High

Sponge Bob

DOCARCH wrote: »

Last winter. Except we did just did not make 'into' the cold air

So it DIDN'T influence OUR winter that time, innit!

catch.23

nacho libre wrote: »

Is M.T. Cranium expecting the Russian high to deliver sometime in January, following a strat warming, that forces the high, or an extension of it, to migrate far enough west, to advect colder weather from the east towards us?

With this in mind, when was the last time a Russian high moved far enough west to influence our weather?

Influence is probably the wrong word to be honest. Pretty much every weather system in the world is affecting us at any given time, albeit indirectly.

When was the last time it caused us to get an easterly blast is probably a better way of putting it. :cool:

DOCARCH

Sponge Bob wrote: »

So it DIDN'T influence OUR winter that time, innit!

Of course it did...but not in the way I wanted it to!!!

nacho libre

catch.23 wrote: »

Influence is probably the wrong word to be honest. Pretty much every weather system in the world is affecting us at any given time, albeit indirectly.

When was the last time it caused us to get an easterly blast is probably a better way of putting it. :cool:

You're right. Sorry. As you say a cut off ridge in the north pacific can have an influence, albeit indirectly, on our weather.

Sponge Bob

DOCARCH wrote: »

Of course it did...but not in the way I wanted it to!!!

It didn't influence our weather, it influenced a lot of the wintertime only posting brigade into a bout of collective insanity in this very forum ( for around 2 weeks in Feb 2012) .

Spindle

Surely the Russian high is one of the more frequent influences on both our winter and summer??

It pushes continental air over Ireland, during winter if the high moves up into Scandinavia linking High it will push a really cold easterly over us.

But there is always a but with this high, it is very dry air so you might get cold, but you only get streamers if the SST are right, so east coasters will be either happy or sad depending where they are (Isle of Man Shadow), most other places will only be in the fridge and will only be happy when the Atlantic pushes in (it always does) and creates a nice battleground to produce epic snow which lasts a day, before mild returns.

During the summer the Russian high gives us our really dry warm, hazy days.

I am not sure if the high would actually extend all the way out of Russia over us.

Deep Easterly

Early Jan 2008 had a very brief Russian block influence over Ireland but did not last long enough (less than 18hrs) and was not strong enough to have any sort of notable impact, though temps did fall as low as -6.0c in parts of the west before Atlantic fronts edged in bringing a spell brief spell of snow early on the 4th to many parts of the country.



After that it was back to square one.

Sponge Bob

February 1895

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1894%E2%80%9395_in_the_United_Kingdom#February_1895

February 1895

A very cold easterly flowed across the UK and most of Europe and there were severe frosts with minima of -13C at Loughborough and -15C being recorded at Chester. Heavy snow showers came with the easterly with Yorkshire and Lincolnshire getting the brunt of the showers, South Shields was severely affected by 15 hours of continuous snowfall forcing the closure of the shipyard. Small polar lows affected the west with snowfalls, Douglas on the Isle of Man recorded 20 cm of snow. As the high over Scandinavia moved over the UK then came a phenomenally cold spell with exceptionally low minima. Temperatures of -20C or less were regularly recorded, -27.2C was recorded at Braemar on the 11th, the lowest ever UK minima, -24C at Buxton also on the 11th,-22.2C at Rutland. -12.7C was the mean average temperature for Wakefield in Yorkshire between the 5th and the 14th. Canals, rivers, lakes and ponds froze in the severe cold, the Manchester Ship Canal was iced over, there were ice floes in the Thames and the Thames estuary itself was impassable because of ice.

Developing, Early Feb.



In Situ, Mid Feb.

cml387

Sponge Bob wrote: »

It didn't influence our weather, it influenced a lot of the wintertime only posting brigade into a bout of collective insanity in this very forum ( for around 2 weeks in Feb 2012) .

You know I kinda miss Darkman2

Sponge Bob

Yeah, except the Darkman called around 6 - 8 big freezes between November and January last winter. The only thing he called right in the last year was the March 2012 Heatwave,

whitebriar

cml387 wrote: »

You know I kinda miss Darkman2

He's over on netweather,if you miss him that much-user name- the eagle.

As for a Russian high-no good.


A solid scandi high,across northern Norway/Sweden or a high south of Iceland linking down to the azores high.