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This milder and wetter weather tends to come from the atlantic where the storms develop so that does start to suggest that winter stormy periods are becoming more frequent in the future. also, there is research into certain types of storms, and in particular the kind that can give us our very strongest winds of all, and it looks like these as well may become more frequent in the long term. more explosive cyclogenesis now, and this time with a snowstorm that slammed into the north—east usa injanuary, giving boston itsjoint snowiest day on record. parts of northern japan had their snowiest jan...

Meteorologists call explosive cyclogenesis. now, imagine a column of air from the ground up to the level of the jet stream at around 30,000 feet or so. a disturbance in the powerfuljet stream forces the air aloft to accelerate away, removing air from the top of the column. the column weighs less and so the force it is exerting on the ground, the pressure gets lower. hence, low pressure. nearthe ground, air rushes in to replace what is lost higher up, and the area of low pressure rotates more and more quickly. and as the process continues, the storm is able to deepen explosively. on a weather c...

Perhaps, more likely to have some damage and disruption as well. now, the winds are picking up sooner because the storm is moving in rapidly. it's going to move away very quickly as well, leaving northern parts of scotland, taking some damaging winds into continental europe on thursday. so by the time we get to thursday morning, the winds won't be as strong. it's still going to be windy, butjust not as windy. there will be some sunshine during the day on thursday and some showers, and those showers could be of a wintry flavour in the hills in scotland because it's quite cold air here. temperat...

And the pressure is falling so rapidly, it's undergoing what we call explosive cyclogenesis. and it's likely to bring some potentially damaging and disruptive winds more widely towards the uk. not only some very windy conditions, we've also got the possibility of some snow and blizzards in the north. now, at the moment, that is perhaps more likely to be affecting scotland, perhaps the far north of england, but a lot depends on the track of the low. there is still some uncertainty, but it's likely that on friday we will see some more disruption more widely across the uk.

This amber wind warning from the met office. in this area, we are expecting gusts of around 70—80 mph perhaps, more likely to have some damage and disruption as well. now, the winds are picking up sooner because the storm is moving in rapidly. it's going to move away very quickly as well, leaving northern parts of scotland, taking some damaging winds into continental europe on thursday. so by the time we get to thursday morning, the winds won't be as strong. it's still going to be windy, butjust not as windy. there will be some sunshine during the day on thursday and some showers, and those ...