Archive for May 24th, 2017
The great reduction in US drought area during the first 4-5 months of the year has been excellent for growing areas and is likely to influence the fast approaching summer. Greater coverage of wet ground and shrinkage of drought area should translate to cooler, wetter conditions across a broad swathe of the country in June. Amazing contrast between worst (2012) […]
It was a scorcher over parts of Iberia yesterday. On the Portuguese Atlantic coast, with the aid of easterlies offshore winds, the thermometer soared to 35.1C in Portugal’s second largest city, Porto. It surpassed the city’s previous May record of 34.7C set back in 1965. The city’s all-time record is 40.9C. Meanwhile, the thermometer also soared to a […]
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