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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 […]
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 […]
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