VIRTUAL MEETING | The Winter Weather of February 2021
LOCATION
UPDATE: Registration has now closed.
SPEAKER: Richard Martin-Barton, an operational meteorologist for MetDesk and also manages an extensive meteorology blog and educational site called StratusDeck: https://stratusdeck.co.uk/
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.
This talk started promptly at 19:00. There was a talk delivered by Richard with a subsequent Q&A session, finishing at 20:00.
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For acknowledgment in scientific journals, please use: "We acknowledge the use of imagery from the NASA Worldviewapplication (https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov), part of the NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)."
VIRTUAL MEETING | The Winter Weather of February 2021 | Recording
UPDATE: Registration has now closed.
SPEAKER: Richard Martin-Barton, an operational meteorologist for MetDesk and also manages an extensive meteorology blog and educational site called StratusDeck: https://stratusdeck.co.uk/
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.
This talk started promptly at 19:00. There was a talk delivered by Richard with a subsequent Q&A session, finishing at 20:00.
EVENT GRAPHIC | NASA supports an open data policy and we encourage publication of imagery from Worldview; when doing so for image captions, please cite it as "NASA Worldview " and also consider including a direct link to the imagery in Worldview to allow others to explore the imagery.
For acknowledgment in scientific journals, please use: "We acknowledge the use of imagery from the NASA Worldviewapplication (https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov), part of the NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)."