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With the help of a -AO releasing polar air south and connecting with an active/stormy mid latitude pattern, we have seen two areas of record breaking snowfall. The snow starved Northeast US has barely seen any snow in the last 2 winters but the storm last week changed that. Snow has finally ended. Updated snowfall […]
Thanks to the coming together of a cold Plains storm and remnants of Hurricane Zeta, Boston buried their Halloween 2005 record for October snow of 1.1 inches with a whopping 4.3 inches of snow on October 30. The record October snowfall also set up another impressive record for Boston. Thanks to a 0.7 inch snowfall […]
The effects of a recent -AO/NAO has shown it’s full effects on the north-central US. A clipper-like system marking the leading edge of the first arctic air mass of the season has brought record snow to Minneapolis. Officially 7.9 inches of snow fell at the Airport, the most snow for this early in the season […]
For prolonged intense heat, endless summer and lack of rainfall, 2020 has been a year like no other for Southwest cities such as Phoenix, Las Vegas, Tucson and Palm Springs. Yesterday’s daily record high of 102 at Sky Harbor Intl Airport, Phoenix was day 145 at or above 100. The comfortably separates this year with […]
This past week, NASA revealed that solar cycle 25 has officially begun and that cycle 24 ended back in December 2019 when it reached a minimum. Solar cycle 24 reached it’s maximum back in April 2014. Solar cycle 23 ended and cycle 24 commenced back in late 2008 with Britain’s coldest winter since 1978-79 occurring […]
It just seems like heat records are endlessly melting across many parts of the world from across northern Siberia to Thailand and up to Taiwan and Japan. Oh and California and the Western US. July of 2006 was a particularly sweltering month for the United States and particularly Southern California as countless long standing heat […]
Furnace Creek, a small town on the edge of Death Valley, California has been long regarded as the hottest place on earth as most summers here record the highest temperature on earth. According to the World Meteorological Organisation, the much disputed 134F reading set in 1913 at Greenland Ranch still remains the world record today. […]
It’s been a record fast start to the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season and we have just seen the 1st US hurricane landfall of the year. Hurricane Hanna rapidly strengthened from borderline Cat 1 to near Cat 2 / 90 mph storm as it made landfall on Padre Island at 5pm ET on Saturday 25 July […]
The strongest and most widespread heatwave to impact an area from California to the Mid-South since 2011/2012 has shattered countless long standing heat records. Several towns and cities have reached new July levels and even all-time. With near 600dm ridge core’s parked over New Mexico, the heat is focused over the Desert Southwest. While hot […]
We have an unusual upper air setup currently over eastern North America with a cutoff low anchored over the Appalachian Mountains with a circling ridge transporting intense Plains heat into northern New England. Quebec and the Maritimes. Note the ridge circling the cutoff low over Eastern North America. So, while it’s mid to upper 90s […]
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