Archive for June 14th, 2012

Severe Weather Over The Plains

Severe Weather Over The Plains

A storm system working east along the International border has a cold front draped south over the Plains and as usual this is triggering thunderstorms which if they haven’t already, will turn severe as they run into increasingly hot and humid air out ahead. These surface temperatures in the map below greatly raise the lapse rate (measure of temperature difference with […]

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Next Atlantic Low Sweeps Rain, Wind Across UK Tonight, Friday (Includes Video Update!)

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Next Atlantic Low Sweeps Rain, Wind Across UK Tonight, Friday (Includes Video Update!)

[warning]MORE HEAVY RAIN SWEEPS ACROSS SOUTHERN ENGLAND AND WALES TONIGHT LIKELY BRINGING MORE FLOODING. THIS FRONT STALLS OVER NORTHERN IRELAND, CENTRAL, SOUTHERN SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN ENGLAND WHERE 1-2″ MAY FALL[/warning] After a fairly pleasant Thursday across much of the northern Rep, Northern Ireland and much of the UK, the wind and rain is coming and is already impacting southern […]

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Carlotta Forms In Eastern Pacific, Takes Aim At Southwest Mexico As Hurricane (Includes Video)

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Carlotta Forms In Eastern Pacific, Takes Aim At Southwest Mexico As Hurricane (Includes Video)

Yesterday we saw an area of disturbed weather to the west of Central America become a depression and now during the overnight hours, the depression has intensified into Tropical Storm Carlotta. This system is currently supporting 45 mph winds and moving NW at around 9 mph. With conducive conditions of both warm waters and a low sheared atmosphere as well […]

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Strong Winds Create Sandstorm On Barcelona Beach

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Strong Winds Create Sandstorm On Barcelona Beach

I saw this on AccuWeather and thought I should post on this for you to see. This amazing ‘sandstorm’ which was probably a nightmare if you were on the beach here was created by what appeared to be a thunderstorm offshore of Barcelona. According to AccuWeather, winds started out from a southwesterly direction with gusts of 17 mph before turning […]

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