Archive for June, 2012
Guchol, once a 150-mph super typhoon, made landfall today on the Kii Peninsula south of Osaka as a 65 mph tropical storm. Though significantly weakened due to cooler waters, dry air and increased wind shear, Guchol still packed quite a punch delivering strong, gusty winds throughout Japan. Winds excellerating as the air became squeezed through the narrow concrete […]
While looking at both the GFS surface and ECMWF upper charts this evening I see no hint of change over the next 10 days. While I felt a glimmer of optimism yesterday with the model transfering the heat from Ukraine to Spain and even the signs of a trough dipping into the east, there isn’t any northward expanding ridge I was […]
You could be forgiven for thinking it is almost summer-like again across the UK as we shrugged off those heavy morning showers which caused nasty surface spray and flooding which made way for a very pleasant June day. Once those showers cleared into eastern Scotland, skies turned sunny and it has remained that way for the majority. […]
From California to Maine, the heat is on.. If you think it’s hot today across the Midwest and Ohio Valley think again, the ridge will not only intensify with it will pump those 100s sizzingly western high plains this afternoon on eastwards during Tuesday with highs likely to approach 100 in Chicago thanks to a jet blowing […]
Following a wet day across many parts of the Ireland, NI with some thunderstorms popping up, these rains spread across the Channel and into western Scotland tonight but this weather eases and weakens through tomorrow morning allowing for another decent and mostly dry day with only an odd shower here and there. Much of the UK looks fine, […]
You may have noticed the increasingly active area of weather simmering over the Caribbean Sea these days. This area of disturbed weather has lingered and grown in coverage over recent days and it’s stuff like this with a large envelop of energy which must be watched when you see pressures fall and you have a favourable […]
A sharp boundary seperates the cool Atlantic air over the British Isles, northern France, west Germany up through Scandinavia with the hot, maritime-continental air dominating Poland, Russia the Southeast of Europe . Along this boundary which acts like a trigger, brought a line of intense thunderstorms across Poland and the Ukraine in recent days with even the cancellation of the France v Ukraine match. As the ridge expands westwards, so the […]
[notice]The next 48 to 72 hours will see more sun than showers and temps which will warm into the 16-19C range for the North 18-22C for the South Tuesday, Wednesday[/notice] The rest of today, Tuesday and Wednesday should be fairly decent days with exception of Northern Ireland for western Scotland, tonight as rain spreads in from […]
The upcoming work week will be dominated by headline grabbing heat and humidity as temps soar into the 110s in Phoenix, 105-110 in Vegas and even the Red Bluff, Redding areas of the northern Sac Valley. Temps will soar into the upper 90s in both Salt Lake and Denver today while we likely see the first of several 120s in Death Valley.There […]
The drought in the UK is over while even France and down into Spain, drought conditions have eased considerably. In my summer forecast issued back on the 31 March I stated there would be two scenarios which would determine the type of summer season we would likely have here in the UK. One being that […]
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