Spring 2017
Article from The Watchers Posted by TW on June 02, 2017 Brutal amounts of rainfall hit northern Taiwan today, June 2, 2017, killing at least 1 person, leaving 2 missing and injuring more than 20. Heavy rain toppled electricity pylon near New Taipei’s Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant, resulting in the automatic shutdown of the plant. The […]
Less than a month since our first reunion since September and we’re back on the road and heading back to Torridon. It’s 1am Sunday 21 May and it’s my 3rd visit to the Torridon. This time Petr and I are taking on Sgurr Choinnich and Sgurr a Chaorachain. Located in the Achnashellach Forest between Glen Carron and Loch Monar, this […]
By Jon Erdman Jun 2 2017 05:00 PM EDT weather.com Story Highlights An area of the Gulf of Mexico will be watched for possible tropical development into next week. Possible development may involve a remnant of an eastern Pacific system. This is an area prone to tropical development in June. Regardless of development, heavy rain […]
Western Europe may be enjoying summer but it’s looking and feeling much more like winter in northwest Russia and Scandinavia lately. The strong western ridge responsible for breaking countless monthly heat records has given way to an unusually cold trough further east, counterbalancing the extreme on the other end. We’ve a very impressive arctic blast for early JUNE in […]
The highly amplified pattern has brought extremes not just with heat but cold too. Check out the 2m temp anomaly over Europe yesterday. Quite the contrast between the Alps and Scandinavia. Back on Monday, the town of Horn set a new May record for Austria with 35C besting the old record of 34.9C set in […]
May 31, 2017 10:27 AM Early statistics show that both May and spring have been warmer and sunnier than average Although there have been a few chilly days and frosty nights in places during the month of May, mean temperatures for the UK across spring as a whole have been above normal by 1.4°C (using […]
What a difference a year ending May last year verses this year for New York and Northeast… May ’16 ended toasty in the Big Apple but this year, I guess the AC can remain off. What’s interesting is while May end hot in the Northeast last year, it was a colder month overall compared to this year. […]
A severe thunderstorm generated a downburst of wind through Moscow, Russia on Monday. Winds gusting over 70 mph caused significant damage and killed up to 16 people, mainly from falling trees and airborne debris. It’s said to be the most deadly storm to hit the Russia capital in over 100 years and strongest in 19 years. […]
Each and every April and May sees the pre-monsoonal heat build and peak across India and Pakistan leaving people tired, weary and ready for the rains. Just last month, Larkana in Sindh province Pakistan captured weather headlines when the thermometer reached Asia and Pakistan’s first 50C in the month of April. Yesterday witnessed Turbat, in southern Balochistan province hit […]
It was a wild and sleepless night over northern France and southern England as a thunderstorm system the size of Wales developed over France and tracked NNE over Southeast England last night. As thunderstorms erupted in the warm, juicy air over France late yesterday afternoon the cells clustered into a vast thunderstorm complex known as a mesoscale convective system (MCS). The […]
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