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Unprecidented, historic rainfall swamps Japan

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Unprecidented, historic rainfall swamps Japan

It wasn’t tropical storm Nanmadol to blame for the 15 inches of rain which fell in just 4 hours across southern Japan but convergence along the semi permanent baiu frontal. This front dropped south out of China bringing warm, moist air from the SW and cool, dry from NW in the wake of the TS. A record 542mm of rain fell within 24 hours and […]

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N Hemisphere may have set a new July cold record in Greenland this week

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N Hemisphere may have set a new July cold record in Greenland this week

We’re in the heart of the Northern Hemisphere summer with heat as you’d expect, dominant. However it’s anything but summer-like in Greenland where temperatures dipped to a new July record this week. July has opened very cold across most of Greenland. The temperature dipped to -33C (-27.4F) on the morning of July 4th at the DMI recording station, perched 10,551ft on […]

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