United States of America
Last week it was the Southwest, this week the Northwest! A ‘super ridge’ centred over southern British Columbia has commenced a spell of ‘hottest weather in living memory’ for the Pacific Northwest and southern British Columbia. While strength is one thing, it’s the position of the high combined with severe drought that is allowing temperatures […]
Severe drought and an exceptionally strong high over the Four corners has led to all-time record challenging heat from South California and Arizona up to Montana. The magic 600dam level was achieved at 500mb maximizing the atmosphere’s heating ability. Looks like the recent sounding out of Flagstaff, AZ clocked in a 500 mb height of […]
Rich tropical moisture continues to sweep north into Texas and Louisiana only worsening the widespread flood situation. Many TX/LA cities are well above their normal rainfall for the whole of June and we’re only 5 days into the month. Surrounding the fire hose continuing to plague the S Plains, an unusually strong, drought enhanced hot […]
The cold of early April 2021 will go down as historic with several Alaskan cities breaking long standing April cold records. Will it remains intact, the Alaska April record low of -50F has been challenged during this cold spell with wind chills of -74F being reported at Howard Pass. According to Brian Brettschneider, the lowest […]
From sudden summer back to winter for the US East Coast. It’s another bumpy transition from winter to summer as is often the case. As the end of March approached, so a sudden burst of Mexican heat swept up the East Coast bringing record breaking 90s to the Southeast and 80s to Northeast. The high […]
The past weekend snowstorm certainly lived up to the billing of an historic event A total of 52.5 inches of snow fell on Windy Peak, Wyoming while 48.5″ fell over Buckhorn Mountain, Colorado. As with many powerful spring storm systems, severe weather is breaking out on the S Plains and this will spread eastwards through […]
Denver is positioned in an area where some of the world’s most extreme weather can occur. It’s all too familiar with snowstorms and big ones. Could this weekend’s storm bring something special? If you’ve read my US articles over the years then you’ll know the drill with these setups, all the atmospheric ingredients are coming […]
Winter 2020-21 will likely go down as a cold winter overall for the Northern UK, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Mongolia and northern China. Warm across Southern Europe and perhaps Canada and even the USA despite the incoming cold now. For the UK, despite a warmer than normal December, January was coldest since 2010 (but by […]
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 […]
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