Jonathan Vautrey, a Met Office forecaster, told The Telegraph England would reach lows of -10C this weekend and the whole of the country will be hit by a second Arctic blast next week which will bring further snowfall in parts of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The wintry weather is forecast to continue, with further Met Office yellow warnings for snow and ice in force across the Midlands, northern England, North Wales and Scotland this weekend. It's scary, thinking you are going to actually spend the night here in the car." Kim Ward, was on her way home to Halifax from a concert in Manchester with her family overnight, and said she was still stranded on Friday morning.Īfter diverting onto an A road, she said: "Next thing we knew mountain rescue were knocking on the window with their torches. Kelly-Marie Prentice, who was stuck on the M62 along with "hundreds and hundreds" of others for six hours with her 15-year-old son amid deep snow, criticised on Sky "we haven't heard a great deal" in the way of updates and only received an update from police three hours into being stuck. 'It's scary, thinking you are going to spend the night in the car' National Highways' North West Twitter account had directed motorists to the M62 only hours earlier. A modest event is most likely, but more severe storm can't be ruled out.It put the authorities at loggerheads with drivers caught up in the chaos, who expressed their anger. UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain tweeted that the "odds of a warm storm of some magnitude around Friday/Saturday are increasing, especially Northern California, but magnitude and duration are highly uncertain. Heavy rainfall and a mild air mass will cause rapid snowmelt in areas that have received several feet of snow recently, the service said. “An abundance of subtropical moisture will move inland over Central California along the southern periphery of this storm system Thursday night through Friday night,” the National Weather Service said. WHAT IS AN 'ATMOSPHERIC RIVER?': These rivers of water vapor can extend thousands of miles. The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab in Soda Springs said Sunday that it got 30 inches of snow over the weekend and has had over 46 feet of snow this season.įorecasters, meanwhile, said the next Pacific storm arriving late in the week will be associated with a moderately strong stream of moisture known as an atmospheric river. "But can still create enough wintry weather to cause travel problems." "Forecasters say the upcoming storm is not expected to pack as much of a punch as its predecessor," AccuWeather said. New storm could cause travel problemsĪccuWeather said it was tracking a storm that is expected to spread snow along an 1,800-mile-long stretch that begins in the northern Plains and could wind up in the Northeast in the coming days. Overall, it was the warmest winter (December-January) on record in the Northeast, according to data from the Northeast Regional Climate Center released Monday. “For the most part, it’s been a winterless winter" in the region, says David Robinson, a Rutgers University geography professor and the state climatologist. Similar shortfalls have been seen in Providence, R.I., Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., and parts of West Virginia. New York, which typically gets over 2 feet of snow by now, has seen only 2.2 inches. Philadelphia has gotten only 0.3 inches compared with an average of 19.2.
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