Archive for August, 2012
As is often the case when you get clusters of thunderstorms develope over the Las Vegas Valley, it doesn’t take much to flood the city. The desert landscape as well as the amount of concrete means there’s little room for the water to escape once it hits the ground and that was the case during […]
Organisation & Initial Intensity Could Mean Difference Between Heading For East Coast or Gulf As Isaac continues to wax and wane as he enters the eastern Caribbean having endured dry air and wind shear. The same question remains despite what the models are suggesting and that is, when will this storm intensify. I really do […]
As we progress towards September and autumn we have varying influences which play into our weather pattern over the forthcoming 3 months. El Nino being one of them and the likely reason for such a wet summer as well as the cold mode of the PDO and warm AMO. Autumn of course is the transition period […]
With blocking highs over top of the mid-latitudes and up in the high latitudes, a zonal (west-east) flow pattern has developed following the highly amplified pattern across the hemisphere of late. Sandwiched between the blocking high over the subtropical high, a rather active North America to Europe storm train is in place. Note the below […]
Since going to bed some 3 hours ago and now I’m back up.. Isaac has been declared and the latest European run continues to take this into the Gulf as a strong hurricane. The overal track looks more and more likely to be skirting SOUTH of the big islands and perhaps making a direct hit […]
Just when you thought those terrible, torturous 90s and 100s was done with the Plains for another summer you happen to look at the ECMWF and go, OH NO! Yes, the heat which has baked the Great Basin and West this month, a complete reversal to the overall summer of 2012 is returning to the […]
Concerns continue to grow this evening as Tropical Depression 9 spins westward towards the Leeward Islands. Right now this system doesn’t look like much at all, largely exposed with little deep convection to speak of. This has a lot to do with dry air it along with all other systems which have crossed the tropical Atlantic […]
While the warmth isn’t over for Western Europe, the hottest days likely are. It’s going to be tough to match the 32.4C we saw at Cavendish in East Anglia on Saturday and the upper 30sC we saw stretch across France with low 40s in the south and down over Spain. Those days of double digits […]
It has been a rather turbulent afternoon for some while for others, tranquil. It all depends upon whether you found yourself under one of the many big, heavy, thundery downpours which packed quite a punch. Gusty winds, hail, localised flooding rains which produced landslides, there was even funnel clouds spotted this afternoon too. Check out the above […]
Well I think it’s pretty safe to now say that the worst of the worst is now over when talking heat for both North America and Europe and really the Northern Hemisphere as we now enter the last 10 days of August. Days have shortened and nights lengthened considerably and with the sun angle lowering, so […]
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