Archive for August, 2012
Over the next few days we should see Isaac begin to dissipate but it’s been a long ride with this system dumping 10-20 inches of rain over LA, MS, AL and this is extending northwards into the areas which need the rain badly. The next 2-3 days will see some decent rains push into the Midwest and […]
For those in search of seeing some wild weather from Hurricane Kirk here across the British Isles and Ireland next week, well you’ll be sorely dissapointed I’m afraid as models continue to show this feature disappear off the map by day 5 as it’s absorbed within the Azores high. Saturday-Sunday pose opposites from north to […]
Yes, you weren’t imagining it, it was cold for a late August morning throughout the UK and yes for some, you had to scrape frost off the car windscreen this morning. It was all thanks to the departure of the latest low pressure system which crossed the UK bringing the usual wind and rain and […]
Earlier today, people in the Philippines ran to higher ground as a major undersea earthquake measuring 7.6 magnitude struck, causing strong shaking which lasted a long time according to one person. The epicentre of this earthquake was located roughly 91 miles east of Guiuan in Samar province of Philippines within the Philippine Trench at a depth of 20 miles […]
The timing of a storm intensifying into a fully fledged hurricane can mean the difference between a hit on the US or it remaining a fish storm with a recurve over the western or even central Atlantic depending on positioning and weaknesses within the Mid-Atlantic ridge. As with Isaac, I believed this thing would remain weak […]
This summer, like recent ones have been somewhat of a dissapointment which extend all the way back to the soaker of 2007 where this ‘wet cycle’ appears to have began. You have you go back to 2006 to find the last truely warm and dry summer here for all of the UK. Summers before 2007 appeared to […]
Now that we have Hurricane Kirk out over the central Atlantic and the fact that it’s intensified, that will help Kirk feel those upper level steering winds and the weakness in the Mid-Atlantic ridge. Certainly looking 4-5 days out it could appear as though Kirk could take a run at the UK by riding over top of […]
While Isaac relentlessly pounds the Gulf Coast and is now ever so slowly creeping north, spreading vast amounts of rain with it up across Louisiana and Mississippi, the heat is on across the Northern Plains where temperatures are climbing into the mid-100s across the Dakotas this afternoon. A strong upper high is supporting these warm numbers but with […]
Unfortunately I have nothing particularly positive to say about our forthcoming 5-7 day period as we are firmly in the firing line of a strong and zonal jet stream which will continue to throw low pressure our way for the forseeable future. However things are going to settle down somewhat over the southern half of Britain from […]
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