Archive for July 24th, 2012
We’ve made it! summer is here.. well for the southern half of the UK that is. While temps soared to a balmy 86°F or 30°C this afternoon over Great London, temps only got to between 16-17°C over a cloudy, damp Northern Ireland, northern England and southern Scotland. This corridor of dreary weather marked a boundary seperating the very […]
Typhoon Vicente rapidly intensified over the warm waters of the South China Sea before striking the Chinese coast near Hong Kong at an intensity equivalent to a category 3-4 hurricane. It brought 83 mph winds to Hong Kong… More on this later!
There’s no question, the Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season has been noneexistant after it’s rapid start and here’s a lot of the reason why! This dry air has been carried across the tropical Atlantic by much stronger than normal easterlies, has surpressed convection and moist air and any waves which emerged from off Africa, quickly became […]
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