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Some 3 weeks following the SSW and we have extreme cold warnings covering a broad swathe of Canada. Yesterday morning’s minimums. Key Lake in north-central Saskatchewan dipped to -48C or -54F. Yesterday’s maximums. As for this morning, the core of cold has slid east with Lac Benoit in central Quebec dipping to -48C or -54F. […]
The setup was perfect with strong upper ridging and offshore flow for maximum heating throughout the LA Basin last week. At UCLA in the Westwood district of Los Angeles it hit 111 degrees surpassing it’s previous all-time record of 109 set back in September 1939. Downtown LA topped 108 degrees, failing to reach the all-time […]
We knew it was going to be an unusually warm day and it was just that. On the western fringes of the Cairngorm Mountains, the town of Aviemore started off Wednesday at a comfortable 9.3C at 3am. By 9am, the thermometer shot up to 23.6C and by 12 noon 28.7C. Between 1 and 2pm the […]
The end game to winter and the overall spring pattern has certainly played well with my thinking. May was a dry month for particularly the northern two thirds of the British Isles. The dry May led to the UK’s warmest and sunniest May on record. It's provisionally been the warmest May on record (since 1910) […]
Well I’m sure many if not most thought the 2-3 weeks of dry pleasant weather we enjoyed in May and much of the first half of June was our summer as the Atlantic returned with unseasonably wet and windy conditions. I have to admit, while next week’s potential ‘hot spell’ is well within the parameters […]
3 weeks of unusually settled weather came to an abrupt this week thanks to the arrival of an unusual summer wind storm. Thanks to an increase in temperature gradient over North America, our sleepy trans Atlantic jet stream awoke and spawned an unusually deep Atlantic low and may have reached it’s peak as it passed […]
A powerhouse 260 mph jet stream has driven bitterly cold Canadian/Greenland air across the North Atlantic and over Ireland and the UK bringing frequent blustery snow showers through today. The jet stream running across the UK this week will be very strong, exceeding 260 mph, which is why things are going to turn more unsettled […]
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