Archive for 2012
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 […]
Well it’s about to get HOT throughout the Pacific Northwest just as points east of the divide start a cooling trend. While some areas stretching from eastern Montana to the Ohio Valley potentially recieve record cool temperatures for August, the Seattle to Portland corridor look on track to recieve record or near record heat and certainly […]
The back is broken in terms of summer heat from Denver to St Louis in a big way with cool shot no. 2 coming acalling late this week. Just when many thought this seemingly never ending summer would continue, the flip has begun but like I said in the previous article, this doesn’t mean summer […]
Our weather is seldom extreme here in the UK but when looking at the new models runs coming in, the same scenarios which I saw this morning for particularly this Wednesday through next Monday still stand. Our weather is looking increasingly more and more interesting from Wednesday on. What’s noteworthy about Wednesday is the depth of low which […]
It may have been a long and hot summer for the bulk of the nation but at least there is light at the end of the tunnel, starting late this week when a significant shot of cool comes down from Canada. Summer is by no means over but the back will be broken with worst in […]
Today marks the start of what will be a very unsettled week though it’s not all doom and gloom despite a series of lows spinning our way from the Bay of Biscay which from particularly Wednesday on, may pack quite a punch with heavy rains and gale-force winds. In between there is sunshine and plenty […]
June and July saw relentless heat centred from Denver to St Louis with days on end in the 90s or 100s. It was a pattern straight out of the 1950s, 1988 and of course the 1930s with the return to a cold PDO and onset of the El Nino. These factors greatly aid in supporting a dry […]
A powerful upper level ridge of high pressure has been tormenting the Spainish interior over the past 7 days with the hottest weather in 17 years for many. Cordova in the southern interior averages a high of 96° with a low of 67° but during the first 10 days of August only two days have failed to reach the century […]
Following a glorious week of weather and glorious second week of weather for the Olympic Games, we of course always have that breakdown looming, especially this summer when you creep into day 5 or 6 of warm sunshine. That breakdown will come tomorrow but it has limitations as to how much the warmth breaks and the […]
The above satellite image shows beautifully the ridge of high pressure currently controlling the Western Europe’s airspace. Note what appears to be grey, high level clouds over the Sahara and up into southern and central Spain. This in fact is the intense heat which the satalitte is picking up on and not a cloud is in the […]
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