Africa
Christopher C. Burt · July 13, 2018, 12:40 PM EDT The first five months of 2018 were the fourth warmest in global records going back to 1880, according to NOAA. Along the way, a number of extreme heat events have occurred already this year. In recent weeks across the Northern Hemisphere, these records have included […]
Dr. Jeff Masters · July 2, 2018, 1:26 PM EDT An unusually concentrated plume of African dust invaded the U.S. over the weekend, bringing dangerously high levels of fine particulate pollution (PM2.5, particles less than 2.5 microns or 0.0001 inch in diameter). The dust from the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) arrived in Texas on Thursday, […]
Recent Severe Cyclone Sagar set a few records last week by becoming the westernmost ever cyclone within the Indian Ocean basin. The cyclone was also the strongest to ever hit Somalia after traversing the entire east-west length of the hot Gulf of Aden. Despite being locked in on three sides by desert, the Gulf of […]
ARTICLE FROM WUNDERGROUND.COM Bob Henson · January 19, 2018, 2:32 PM EST Three years of unforgiving drought in Cape Town, South Africa, have led to the once-unthinkable: A great world city is about to turn off the tap to its municipal water supply. The long-feared “Day Zero”—the point when the reservoirs serving Cape Town drop […]
Snow in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains is common during winter and in the nearby upland areas it happens every few years but not further south on the edge of the Sahara. Zagora witnessed it’s first snow since 1968. Cold air associated with a large and deep cut off low over SW Europe extending into NW Africa […]
On the very same day (Sunday 8 January) as Sydney, Australia endured it’s 2nd hottest day on record, upwards of 16 inches of snow fell in the Algerian desert town of Ain Sefra. Unusually cold air dove unusually far south into Africa which helped deliver the rare snowstorm. Just enough snow fell in the #Algeria-n […]
Rain was welcome but not the storm which killed 9 people and destroyed hundreds of shacks. While it’s winter in the southern hemisphere, South Africa and particularly the Cape can expect storm systems but the one which struck mid last week was exceptional. Said to be the worst in 30 years with 2 inches of rain […]
Firstly, this was the scene here in central Scotland back on Thursday of last week… The end of a lengthy dry spell in which high pressure dominated. Then the rains arrived and we had a very soggy Saturday over much of the UK… First rains in 3 weeks for some and most in 6 weeks! While the atmospheric tap turned back […]
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