Archive for July, 2012
We’ve made it! summer is here.. well for the southern half of the UK that is. While temps soared to a balmy 86°F or 30°C this afternoon over Great London, temps only got to between 16-17°C over a cloudy, damp Northern Ireland, northern England and southern Scotland. This corridor of dreary weather marked a boundary seperating the very […]
Typhoon Vicente rapidly intensified over the warm waters of the South China Sea before striking the Chinese coast near Hong Kong at an intensity equivalent to a category 3-4 hurricane. It brought 83 mph winds to Hong Kong… More on this later!
There’s no question, the Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season has been noneexistant after it’s rapid start and here’s a lot of the reason why! This dry air has been carried across the tropical Atlantic by much stronger than normal easterlies, has surpressed convection and moist air and any waves which emerged from off Africa, quickly became […]
A near stalled frontal boundary seperates the north with south. Along the slow southward moving front today, rains have been persistent and at times heavy. Here in Lennoxtown, it took till late afternoon for the rains to finally stop while temps soared to 28C at Writtle in Essex this afternoon. The front will hold over […]
While the cauldron of heat continues it’s relentless grip over the Midwest today, thunderstorms are firing along the jet stream which flows across the Great Lakes down towards the Mid-Atlantic. Strong, multicluster thunderstorms are currently pushing southeast through New York state and eastern Pennsylvania into New Jersey where a serious cluster of slow moving storms is causing […]
In this post I shall take a look at the El Nino, it’s role and importance of strength and position over the equatorial Pacific. The role of sea surface temperatures over the North Atlantic and the overall Pacific and Atlantic’s influence on the atmosphere, the behavior of the current winter season down in the southern hemisphere and […]
GET READY!!! I shall be sharing with you my initial thoughts on the upcoming winter for Europe and the United States tomorrow with a video included. Stay tuned!!
Hot weather will dominate the upcoming workweek with the focus centred over the Plains. Through this week the 100s will spread west over the Great Basin allowing Denver to see yet more 100s as well as Salt Lake City, Reno and Boise as the week progresses. By late week, the ECMWF shows heights really […]
Following chilly afternoons up in New York City where rain, cloud and Atlantic breezes held temperatures in the low 60s a couple of days ago, yesterday it was the Baltimore-Washington area which got in on some impressive late July chill. What’s striking is how warm this month has been across the region with 13 days over 95 […]
It’s finally here, no not the Olympics but some decent warm weather! Today will see temperatures warmer than yesterday and through Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, they increase by a few degrees each day. By Monday we should see highs over London rise to around 26-27C (78-80F) and by Tuesday the mercury looks likely to crack the […]
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