{"id":2947,"date":"2022-01-17T16:27:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T21:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2022-01-17T20:43:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T01:43:46","slug":"upper-level-block-shunts-storm-tracks-northward-away-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/17\/upper-level-block-shunts-storm-tracks-northward-away-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper-Level Block shunts storm tracks northward away UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The upper-level Omega Block is re-establishing over the northeastern North Atlantic with a semi-stationary upper cut-off low situated south of the Azores for the next several days which will shunt low tracks N-NE towards Greenland and Iceland and away from the UK and Northwest Europe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2948\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/t1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2948\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2948 \" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/t1-300x189.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/t1-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/t1-768x484.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/t1.png 956w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omega Block over the northeastern North Atlantic<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2949\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/t2.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2949\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2949 \" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/t2-300x191.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/t2-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/t2-768x490.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/t2.png 964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA OPC 72 hour Surface Forecast<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Omega block is an upper-air pattern where the strong wind belt looks like the Greek letter Omega\u00a0 \u03a9\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Omega block is\u00a0 often associated with two cut-off lows with one blocking high sandwiched between them.\u00a0 Storm tracks will be diverted northward instead of eastward with semi-stationary surface lows situated to the southwest and southeast of the block (in the northern hemisphere).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upper-level Omega Block is re-establishing over the northeastern North Atlantic with a semi-stationary upper cut-off low situated south of the Azores for the next several days which will shunt low tracks N-NE towards Greenland and Iceland and away from &hellip; 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