>You will tend to find that most of the time I will cover US weather but I am trying to look at weather here in Scotland, the UK and indeed what’s happening across the world.

Here are some global weather highlights of note.

Hottest temperature found in the North Hemisphere this summer:
Death Valley, California, 128 degrees. International Weather Expert, Jim Andrews stated in an email to me that the likely secondary hot spot in the Northern Hemisphere this summer is likely Indus Valley of northern Sindh (even into eastern Balochistan), Pakistan where high’s of 124 degrees were recorded back in May at Jacobabad. I did see Algeria top 118-119 as well as those similar numbers across Saudi Arabia but not close to 128 degrees recorded at Death Valley.

Blistering heatwave bakes coastal Morocco….
Unusually hot weather spread into the normally cool coastal areas of Morocco. One would think all of Morocco would be blistering hot in summer, yes inland areas are but not normally coastal areas where refreshing Atlantic sea breezes usually keep things cooled off. However, strong east to southeast winds blew off the Sahara bringing scorching heat right to the Atlantic coast where temps as high as 119 degrees were reported at Agadir Airport. An anazing 30 degrees above normal. To the north in the city of Casablanca also sweltered and nearby Nouasser topped 117 and the following days remained in the 110s. The capitol of Rabat touched off a 113 degree high, remarkably the norm in 80 degrees! Marrakech hit 114, Fez hit 110 degrees both Monday and Tuesday. What helped this heat to become so blistering was the southeast flow crossed and downsloped the lofty Atlas Mountains and pushed out to sea the normal Atlantic cooling effect. Whilst near 120-degree heat baked the Morrocco coast, not far offshore, the Canaries would have enjoyed upper 80s to low 90s with brisk Atlantic winds crossing the Spanish island group.

Major Western Europe trough brings low pressure impulses across UK and France….
A deep trough drapped over Western Europe has reintroduced a cold pocket aloft covering Great Britain and much of western Europe, allowing low pressures to spin in from the Atlantic bringing persistently unsettled, sometimes stormy weather to the UK, France, the Netherlands, Denmark and across Poland and Scandinavia, thanks to time of year, heating at the surface has aided enhanced lift within low pressure associated clouds, bringing enhanced rains, wind and pockets of thunderstorms, regular cumulonimbus towers loom, embedded within the low pressure circulation which have brought isolated flooding rains to areas of eastern England, Scotland and Ireland. Much cooler daytime highs as well as blustery winds have pushed summer out after a warm, dry first half of summer. With the trough across Western Europe, hot weather is pushed south into Spain and central and eastern Europe where high pressure remains firmly in control.
Hundreds die in Indian-Pakistan Monsoon….
441 people are killed across southwest India from floods caused by the monsoon, whilst 1.5 million are also effected. 26 people were killed just this past weekend in Pakistan, due to flood waters. Normally lasting June-September, the monsoon this year arrived early in southern Inia and came to a half midway up India, fears of below normal precip started as central and northern India sweltered in blistering heat simply because the mnsoon was stuck in the southern part of the country, leaving the north high, dry and hot.
However, the monsoon did progress north and covered all of India where record or near record rains came. More than double normal rainfall for July hit Ratnagiri where 58.06 inches fell. Mumbai has seen over 40 inches, roughly double the July norm there also. The monsoonal flow tends to shut down once the Asian continent starts cooling down by fall and northerly winds cut off the southern, moist pump off the Indian Ocean.
Major winterstorm batters Argentina, Uraquay and Brazil
Snow, Hail, High Wind and Heavy Rain Hit Argentina
7/22/2009 8:20 (courtesy of AccuWeather) AMA major winter storm swept out of northern Argentina and off the southern Atlantic coast on Tuesday and Tuesday night. Along the way it made a heavy impact across, not only northern and eastern Argentina, but also Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil. The storm dumped 2 to 3 inches of rain over Buenos Aires, an amount higher than the rainfall of the preceding three months. Rainfall as high also fell over Uruguay and northeastern Argentina. Further north, strong and gusty thunderstorms broke out along the winter storm`s vigorous cold front. These thunderstorms pelted Asuncion, Paraguay, with hail. On the storm`s cold southwestern side, snow fell upon areas that rarely see the white stuff. At Bahia Blanca, snowfall was at least 5 inches as of Wednesday morning. Snow flakes were sighted northward to the city of Cordoba, which lies northwest of Buenos Aires. Story by AccuWeather.com Senior Forecaster Jim Andrews

Thanks for reading.
-Mark