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Well Stanislaw, There's a tremendous amount of research in the meteorological community about this very topic. The answer isn't that...

For those unaware, the actual culprit is a low pressure system currently just south of Ireland. It is forecast to track just south of...

As far as I am aware, the Fujita scale is only for land tornadoes, introduced by Ted Fujita back in the 60s or 70s. I actually prefer...

There does appear to be a ridge, bringing positive heights nudging into Iberia next week so we should be seeing a shift in the "storm...

The jet stream, think of it as a path for the low pressure systems to follow and as a rule of thumb they are guided by this river of air...

Not much more to add to that. They often tend to become a much larger entity, sometimes stretching out hundreds of miles and more.

I forgot to post the sounding/skew t

Quite interesting as it's a shallow layer of sub zero temperatures near the surface. Looking at the radiosonde/skew t yesterday, it was...

Disrupted polar vortex, highly amplified upper level pattern............ Fascinating to watch this unfold from meteorological point of...

Jerry is right about the answer. Don't feel silly about any questions. My philosophy is that the only silly question is the one that...