Spring 2017
With the presence of a deepening low you typically get warm southerly winds out ahead and cold behind. Well a strong arctic cold front associated with a deepening low crossing the North-Central states is pushing through Montana and into the Dakotas as of this writing. The first blizzard warnings of the season are in place […]
Extremely heavy rain has recently fallen over Florida and the Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission core satellite looked at that some of that rainfall on June 7. Rainfall records were broken on that date as the GPM satellite passed overhead from space. On June 7, GPM found rain falling at a rate of over […]
After another thoroughly wet, windy and downright cool day (esp Scotland), today is fairing much better but there’s still plenty of showers following a northward area of rain lifting through Scotland this afternoon. Check out the temperature difference to start yesterday verses this morning. Big difference was the cloud, breeze and rain spreading north this […]
Last weekend hosted a heat wave over southeast Asia which put particular strain on Vietnam lately. Soaring heat quickly overcrowded hospitals and people were dying in the day by day 38+C heat. Northern parts of Vietnam suffered the most extreme temperatures and an approach on the all-time Vietnam record of 42.7C reached at Con Cuông in May 2015. The Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, […]
Yesterday was record cold by early June standards across the Northeast. Beneath laden skies, the thermometer failed to get out of the 50s as far south as New Jersey and 40s in parts of New England. Amazingly by the time we reach the end of the weekend, many sites will have recorded 90s with records […]
Yesterday was a downright dismal June day throughout the UK and likely wettest in several months! Wind driven rain fell pretty much all day yesterday suppressing temperatures 2-4C below normal with some places in Scotland having a hard time getting above 10C. Winds were strong enough to blow down trees in Somerset. The chilly air mass, helped […]
While the Southwest sweats in 105-110F and 80s and 90s extending all the way up to the interior Pacific Northwest with records likely to fall, it’s very different on the other side of the continent with an unusually cool trough with plenty of thick cloud trapped beneath covering the Northeast. Check out the contrast between Northwest and Northeast both at 2 […]
Low pressure is well and truly back. The slow movement of the system is making for a thoroughly miserable Tuesday across much of the UK. Low eastward progression is allowing rain totals to mount up which is causing flooding issues. This follows a day in which the same low dumped 100mm or 4 inches of rain […]
Drought conditions remain across Florida with extreme drought remaining between Orlando and Lake Okeechobee. Given the past weekend’s deep tropical moisture surge and anticipated rains through the next week or so, a significant dent to the Sunshine State’s drought is likely. The combination of southward dipping jet stream and semi organised system in western Gulf […]
You would think a switch has been flicked within our atmosphere above. Rather than persistent high pressure dominating, we’re firmly back in an unsettled, disturbed Atlantic pattern with frequent lows sweeping across our shores bringing spells of wind and rain. GFS ensemble upcoming 5-day mean 500mb height anomaly. A rather soggy 5 days ahead as […]
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