Archive for August 1st, 2012
The warm, juicy atmosphere over the Northeast combined with a frontal boundary has allowed strong thunderstorm to blowup and cross the Greater New York City area. During the early afternoon today, heavy storms dropped a rapid 2 inch plus rain which caused significant flooding over Queens and other parts of Long Island. There are also […]
With a large low with deep central pressure spinning away off Ireland, rains will continue feeing in tonight. Thankfully we will see widespread improvment tomorrow with a more sunshine and shower regime kicking in and this looks likely to become the theme over the next 5-7 days at least. While eastern Europe remains dominated by high pressure and hot, mostly […]
Up until now, the tropical Atlantic has been dead, although waves have been travelling the usual west-east journey but they’ve been killed by choking Saharan dust and intense easterly trade winds. Two factors which are never good for tropical development. In the past couple of days, there are TWO waves which have caught attention of the meteorological community […]
Although there is nothing official, it appears as though, up here in Scotland (likely other parts of UK/Ireland too), we’ve just had our COOLEST, WETTEST, CLOUDIEST JULY ON RECORD depending upon where you are. According to a tweet this afternoon by STV’s Sean Batty, Glasgow and Salsburgh, N Lanarkshire had their wettest July while Eskdalemuir, Dumfries and Galloway, which […]
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