Archive for May, 2017
A severe thunderstorm generated a downburst of wind through Moscow, Russia on Monday. Winds gusting over 70 mph caused significant damage and killed up to 16 people, mainly from falling trees and airborne debris. It’s said to be the most deadly storm to hit the Russia capital in over 100 years and strongest in 19 years. […]
Each and every April and May sees the pre-monsoonal heat build and peak across India and Pakistan leaving people tired, weary and ready for the rains. Just last month, Larkana in Sindh province Pakistan captured weather headlines when the thermometer reached Asia and Pakistan’s first 50C in the month of April. Yesterday witnessed Turbat, in southern Balochistan province hit […]
It was a wild and sleepless night over northern France and southern England as a thunderstorm system the size of Wales developed over France and tracked NNE over Southeast England last night. As thunderstorms erupted in the warm, juicy air over France late yesterday afternoon the cells clustered into a vast thunderstorm complex known as a mesoscale convective system (MCS). The […]
What an incredible display and variety of extreme weather on all corners of North America these days. While it snowed in Newfoundland, Alaska likely experienced it’s coldest late May system on record with temperatures of -37F at 17,000ft and an all-time record May snow in Barrow, all the while Sunday was one of Miami’s hottest days ever, never mind hottest in May. Snow covered ground in […]
In the past week, July-like heat has been surging northward out of Africa over Western Europe in between an Atlantic low near Ireland and high over Europe. Many monthly records have fallen starting off with Spain and Portugal, then France, then UK, Low Countries and now Scandinavia. Yesterday’s Europe highs The thermometer rose to a brand new May level in Norway Friday with […]
Another weekend, another storm with extremes. This time it’s the Memorial Day weekend where there’s a lot of outdoor activity from travelling to grilling. You know the drill, cool, dry Canadian air sweeps out of Alberta over the Rockies while hot builds up the West Coast and hot, humid conditions from Texas to Florida thanks to flow from Caribbean and […]
HP positioned over the North Sea and LP pushing into Ireland means we’re pulling our air up from Iberia where temps have been sweltering in the record upper 30s. Several places in western France set new monthly records for May yesterday. Brest and Nantes amoung the cities in WNW France which set new monthly record […]
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