Archive for 2012
While a significant trough drives autumnal air down across the Northern Plains, Great Lakes, Midwest and eventually the East Coast, ridging is pumping unusual warmth up the western flank of the continent and in fact we may see highs near 100 in Portland, OR and near 90 in Seattle, WA Saturday afternoon. This will be […]
It’s getting towards that time of year for cooler air starting to make inroads further south, but snow, already? Well for some, we may well see snow across several regions of the Northern Hemisphere next week thanks to several lobes of modified early season cold pools sink south into the mid-latitudes. What first caught my attention was […]
[warning] LONDON & SE FORECAST: Temperatures rise near 27C today, 28 or 29C Saturday, Sunday, Significant cooldown arrives next week! [/warning] Unfortunately for Scotland and Northern Ireland it looks to be somewhat of a dissapointing weekend with lower heights supporting cloud, showers and a west breeze which will make for a very contrasting weather map compared to further south. […]
The pattern across the hemisphere is rather interesting these days when you take a step back and look at the broader picture. We’ve just seen two unusually deep lows form in the high latitudes at roughly the same time. One over the Bering Sea between Russia and Alaska which bombed out at around 974mb, the […]
It’s at this time of year when you really want to make the most of those 25C+ days since you just know their living on borrowed time. This weekend I think is likely to be the last real warm period and with it arriving on the weekend, get out there and enjoy it. The bulk […]
An impressive storm system developed over the Bering Sea about 36 hours ago and during last night brought the system pushed hurricane-force winds onshore across southern Alaska as the central pressure from this winter-like monster plunged to 974 mb. Winds topped 70 to near 90 mph across Anchorage and surrounding hillsides. Power was cut to as […]
Following several days of fighting dry air and shear from an upper low to the west, now it’s shear from the north due to a high which continues to keep Leslie as a 992mb, 65 mph tropical storm. Over the next 2-4 days we are going to start seeing Leslie organise more as conditions over and around the […]
Surely, not… could we actually see Isaac regenerate back over the Gulf of Mexico? Ivan did it in 2004 after taking a big loop over the continental US and this may happen again with Isaac. If you’ve been following, Isaac’s remnant low first entered Louisiana a week ago, then headed north and took a hard […]
While it’s that time of year now when we see more and more cold front drops out of Canada, drawing down that cool, refreshing fall air mass, this time it should drive daytime highs and night lows down well into Texas as well as across the East. A substantial cool shot dives out of Canada starting […]
Every so often when the jet stream takes a southward dip over the heart of Europe, spilling cold upper level air down with it, the resulting trough often can form a low over the Med Sea, like with this instance, the low becomes cut off with the jet returning back north. With the warm waters beneath, these lows can appear to take on some semi tropical […]
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