Archive for August, 2012
This graphic by AccuWeather says it all. I’ve been talking about this coming chill all week and here it comes. Expect low 40s for many across the Dakotas and Minnesota tonight with some rural areas likely falling into the chilly, near frosty upper 30s. The chill will extend south, southeast and deep into the same […]
Believe it or not but Tropical systems practically every late summer will take that long recurve route all the way around the North Atlantic Basin perhaps having struck the US East Coast or simply remained a fish storm between the US and Bermuda, a common tropical cyclone track. They can eventually they sweep across Western Europe […]
The low pressure which deepened to an impressive 980mb yesterday off Ireland brought unusually strong August winds with gales for some. It also brought a brief blast of torrential rain northwards across Britain and Ireland as the front swept through followed by heavy downpours. We continue to hold onto our warm, humid air mass with little cooling thanks to the low continuing to spin and remain deep just […]
High Latitude Blocking Looks To Keep USA & Great Britain Cool, Unsettled Through Remainder of August
Thought it would be worthwhile taking a quick look at the 8-14 day outlook courtesy of the Climate Prediction Center. While folks in the US will be asking, Is this coming cool a sign of things to come, folks here in the UK are likely asking, is this warmth and intensifying warmth this weekend also a sign of things […]
It’s interesting to see the reports fly in about how ‘relentlessly’ hot it’s been in the last 10 days over the West with Phoenix being highlighted. 9 out of the last 10 days has seen Phoenix top 110° with the highest value being 116°. Much more impressive is Death Valley with just 2 out the […]
I guess the one good thing about this week’s weather is that it’s at least warm, giving us at least a feel of summer. Since last weekend i’ve been closely monitoring the models which continuously show one heck of a hot weekend over Spain and France. So hot that all-time records may be challenged and many of […]
Thought id show you this beautiful satellite image I’ve just grabbed off weatheronline which clearly shows how this well advertised, deepening low is behaving as forecast. This image captures the perfect baroclinic contrast and the work warm and cold air masses do when pulled together. It’s the circulation itself which is drawing down cold air from Iceland while it’s cold front which […]
Sorry for the briefness of this post tonight guys and gals. I am just heading off to work and I’m already running late 🙁 I wanted to leave you with this before heading. Take a look firstly at the above 850 chart off the ECMWF and notice how far south this takes the coming cool shot […]
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any hotter than what we saw in Spain back at the weekend when Seville set a new all-time August record high of 114° (45.6°C) and in France where it’s been a fairly decent and not too hot summer compared the recent summers, the ECMWF, GFS and other models suddenly drop the red […]
SOME METEOROLOGY For days now the models have had a storm forming over the Bay of Biscay at the base of a deep trough. A lot of energy spilling into the trough is forcing rapid bundling and development. This tends to force a lot of heat and moisture into the system adding more energy which forces […]
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