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Here we find ourselves on midsummers day, and 2008 has thus far been a mirror image of 2007. Early heat in June was unusual with significantly higher than average temperatures for nearly 2 weeks. This peaked at about 31C on the 8th june, and shortly thereafter a more typical succession of fronts moved in. Temperatures are a returning to normal 15-20C but the precip is still with us. Relatively high humidity combined with a typically conditionally stable atmosphere has led to some convective down bursts later in the afternoon in Oslo over the last few days. Not the easiest thing for the forecasters to pick! Anyway, just thought you guys might be interested ... if anyone is interested in discussing scandinavian weather in english and in a bit more detail, we always welcome new members over at www.scandinavianweather.com , we currently only have a few regular contributors over there but the weather can be fairly interesting above 60deg, so if you are interested please say hi Cheers James

Where do you get the bouy data from? Low is nudging for a 956hPa central pressure at the moment, at its deepest around midnight GMT, and then rapidly weakening. Pity, it would make a great view on the vis sat shot, but the current sattelite photo is not showing anything at all really. Pity ... I will be right in the center of this low's path near a ski resort called hemsedal ... this is the current forecast.http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/Buskerud/Hemsedal/Hemsedal/hour_by_hour.html Should be fun considering we are arriving at 9pm! will try and take some photos

This has now droped below 960hPa on the latest +48hr GFS Fairly fast moving it is now progged to track straight over oslo towards Sweden, rather than to the North as before. Probably about 5-10cm + of snow for much of the mountains </B>

Well this is a deep one, but knowing the models it will probably fill up by the time it gets close to old Noggy land. With a predicted min central pressure of 960mBar, this should bring a fair bit of rain and snow to the south west coast and inland ... and i'm off skiing there this weekend ... cry for me if you must. Anyway, one to keep an eye on!

Currently sitting in Balmy Oslo where the official temp is 8C, but down at sealevel, where I am looking out over the fjord, it feels decidedly warmer ... say 10C ... That is BLOODY warm for this time of year. Dark black clouds outside almost look summer storm like, high, foreboding and with an air of instability. BUT there is a bit of a cold spell coming next week if the models and ensembles are to be believed.

Dont be sorry I was having a joke! It is actually interesting to know that the same storm system is called two different names. How are the names chosen? I know a fair bit about tropical cyclones and how they are named but how are these extratropical cyclones named?

This one with the sun at a much lower angle really shows the structure and the amount of convection in this storm particullarly around the center, and that is despite it winding down.

Well in Norway it is called Tuva and seeing it is now over Norway we are right, and you are wrong :lol:

LOL very funny. But I love that MODIS image the 250m resolution version (hires) it is possible to see the snow covering, unfortunately The Terra satellite was a little too far North, and Aqua's shot (which is this one) Full res: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtim...113459.250m.jpg WARNING 5.7Mb is even worse mainly because of the scanning "lines" at the extremities of the shot. But it does show you how extensive the snow cover is over Scandinavia. Also unfortunately NASA do not produce a subset for scandinavia so you can only really get these Raw shots.

I should add that the MODIS pic was captured at 11:15UTC on 31/1/08 ... or about an hour before the other one. And no stress about the move ... still finding my way here! :unsure:

This one I posted yesterday, enhanced to highlight arctic clouds and top surface features This one is also from yesterday from the MODIS instament on the Terra Sat. Now unfortunately the sat was not quite in the right position, but if you look at the high resolution version of this image it is still pretty spectacular! (WARNING 4Mb download Hi Res version ... http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtim...112000.250m.jpg ) If you look very closely at that hi res version above, you can just see the shetland islands poking out from behind the clouds. And finaly todays image which while not as spectacular does show the centre of the cyclone hitting the south Coast of Norway near Kristansand about midday ... and then subsequently breaking up. Note that the bottom right corner is just a false colour enhancement of the eye to reveal top cloud structure. Enjoy! Opplevelse

Hi all, I assume this is the right place to put this (Im new around here!) As I said in the snow thread, it has been pelting down rain here in Oslo, with fairly strong winds and a bit of sleet ... the worst is yet to come. Thought it would be nice to have a look at the size of this system ... it is pretty bloody big with feederbands across most of Norway!

Very windy here in Oslo, a light dusting of snow overnight which has now turned to driving rain with temps a warm 2-3C. Wind gusting to perhaps 15-20kts, which might not sound like much, but for Oslo it is reasonably strong.