Summer Series | The Winter Weather of 2021
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Summer Series | A fresh look at the RMetS virtual meetings of this season.
The RMetS Summer Series showcased previous virtual meetings by re-sharing the recordings from the events. You can watch these for free alongside other fellow academics and enthusiasts.
The Series ran during lunch times, providing a refreshing break every Wednesday in July and August.
If you have any questions regarding the Summer Series, please email meetings@rmets.org.
This is a showing of a previous Yorkshire Local Centre talk by Richard Martin-Barton
ABSTRACT | After a colder than average January, early February 2021 saw a protracted period of severe winter weather across the UK, with daytime temperatures hovering around zero for close to a week across much of the country. There were severe overnight frosts, including the lowest temperature recorded in the UK since 1995, on the 11th. Snow fell across much of eastern and central Britain, with particularly disruptive snow across East Anglia and the South-East, along with impressive snow depths across eastern and northern Scotland. Rare freezing rain even fell across parts of Wales and Scotland as the cold spell came to an end. In this talk, I'll take a look at the synoptic environment responsible for this weather, and the resulting impacts to infrastructure; it wasn't just the UK though, with the cold wave even more intense across central and eastern Europe. I'll give some insight into how the event unfolded from an operational meteorologist's point of view, and compare to other recent periods of severe winter weather.
Summer Series | A fresh look at the RMetS virtual meetings of this season.
The RMetS Summer Series showcased previous virtual meetings by re-sharing the recordings from the events. You can watch these for free alongside other fellow academics and enthusiasts.
The Series ran during lunch times, providing a refreshing break every Wednesday in July and August.
If you have any questions regarding the Summer Series, please email meetings@rmets.org.
This is a showing of a previous Yorkshire Local Centre talk by Richard Martin-Barton
ABSTRACT | After a colder than average January, early February 2021 saw a protracted period of severe winter weather across the UK, with daytime temperatures hovering around zero for close to a week across much of the country. There were severe overnight frosts, including the lowest temperature recorded in the UK since 1995, on the 11th. Snow fell across much of eastern and central Britain, with particularly disruptive snow across East Anglia and the South-East, along with impressive snow depths across eastern and northern Scotland. Rare freezing rain even fell across parts of Wales and Scotland as the cold spell came to an end. In this talk, I'll take a look at the synoptic environment responsible for this weather, and the resulting impacts to infrastructure; it wasn't just the UK though, with the cold wave even more intense across central and eastern Europe. I'll give some insight into how the event unfolded from an operational meteorologist's point of view, and compare to other recent periods of severe winter weather.