Archive for June, 2012
An astonishing 25 inches or 2 feet of rain has fallen across southern parts of Taiwan within just 24-hours while 3.5 feet has come down in 3 days, this has of course caused major flooding and sadly death with It’s all caused by a stationary boundary stretching from Southeast China eastwards across southern Taiwan and out into the western Pacific. This […]
Today will see plenty of active weather with Texas, the Lower Mississippi Valley and Eastern Seaboard all seeing thunderstorms today. The same mesoscale convective complex which had a derecho on it’s leading edge as it swept southeastwards yesterday producing over 300 wind damage reports across the Mississippi Valley will gradually weaken as it takes aim at New […]
When I issued my summer forecast back on the 31 March I stated that if the drought continued, we could see one very warm and dry summer with a significant heat wave sometime in June, July or August with strong correlation between the dry soil and atmosphere. I also stated however that a lot depended upon how the spring […]
It’s been a tough time for folks across the South of England this year with record drought which extended back a good 2 years to now exceptional rainfall and flooding. I guess one could link this to the onset of the El Nino rather than global warming given the flip from drought to deluge across hard hit […]
Following highs in the 90s from Minneapolis to DC, an eastbound cold front bringing showers and storms to the Mississippi Valley will continue pushing east over the next 36-48 hours. On it’s backside temps are falling 20-25 degrees from the previous 24 hours ago. While weekend highs soared well into the 90s across the Dakotas, their in the 70s […]
There are two lines of storms to watch across the US this afternoon, the first line now sweeping southeastwards over the Mid-Mississippi valley extends from southern Illinois down through Kentucky, western Tennessee and into Arkansas. This line has already produced damaging winds, some hail and heavy, flooding rains over parts of Missouri. These cells will continue moving southeast through the […]
The europe pattern at the moment consists of a western trough and an eastern ridge with a constant southwesdt flow pumping Saharan air northeast across the central and eastern Med andsoutheast Europe. There will be little change in this setup over next 7 days however while the trough intensifies in the west, the ridge will begin drawing super hot air from off […]
Relentless, heavy rainfall has forced stretches of the M1 and many others A class roads to shut due to flooding today. According to the BBC, one man was rescued as his car became stuck in flood waters in Waterloovile, Hampshire. At the seafront in Littlehampton, West Sussex homes were hard hit with floodwaters 4 ft deep and even as far north as Boroughbidge in North Yorkshire […]
A low positioned along the north coast of France is already feeding heavy rains into Kent and this will continue working north, northwest through the overnight. This area of rain will cover the Southeast and East Anglia through the early hours with the core of heaviest and most persistent rain slowly spreading into the heart of southern […]
This morning, having stood for 2 and a half hours, my wife Karen and I stood on Rye Road in the Barmulloch area of Glasgow and watched the first set of the Red Road flats on Petershill Drive get brought down. During my 2 and a half years working at Asda, Robroyston, these iconic, symbols of […]
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