Archive for 2012
There is plenty of scientific evidence which shows net temperature fluctuations around the globe correlates perfectly with ocean temperature. While much of the media would have you think that the increase in Co2 is rising our planets temperature, the rise since the start of the 1980s is down to an increase in sun activity which warms […]
I guess a good reason behind the well above normal precipitation which set in back in April and continued ever since across the UK and Scandinavia is thanks, in part to the flip from back to back La Ninas to an El Nino, helped by the still warm North Atlantic Oscillation and prodominantly -NAO. The big question is what […]
Good afternoon and hope your all enjoying your weekend so far. Did you enjoy the opening ceremony? It certainly was quite the specticle and certainly makes one proud to be British. Hope you enjoyed the warm sunshine last week because we’re set for a reality check which will take us through the next 7 days on […]
The summer of 2012 from Denver to St Louis and really to Washington DC will be remembered for a long time as one long , brutal, hot, dry and dusty summer. Folks throughout the heart of the Plains, Front Range of the Rockies and Midwest have had no rest this year and over the next […]
Any showers which affected parts of the Southeast today into tonight will clear and this should leave a fine, dry and fairly bright Saturday though considerably cooler and less humid than today has been. It was yet another 80+F day in London with high humidity but tomorrow expect highs to struggle reaching 70F and by […]
The above image was captured on live TV in New York City yesterday during the height of the wild storms as they pushed through the city. It was an impressive day for severe storms with a copious amount of wind damage reports and there was some tremendous lightning displays. In the below chart, notice there […]
Here is a cool chart created by AccuWeather.com about the extremes of weather during past summer olympic games…
The trough plunging into the UK behind tomorrow’s front is deep with thicknesses down to 546 over Scotland, sub 560 over London which supports very cold air aloft. An associated cut off low within the trough will keep an unsettled as well as chilly theme throughout this weekend with daytime temps holding at only 14-16C in Scotland, northern England and […]
I stand by my original forecast for tomorrow in which I believe thunderstorms WILL pep up during the mid to late morning hours onwards as the core of hottest, most humid air over France will get pushed north with mini fronts enhancing the steamy air mass firmly established over the Southeast of England. It’s not only the southbound cold front as […]
The past 6 months have been record warmest for a large swath of the Lower 48 and with drought becoming more and more firmly established over the past couple of months, so the heat has intensified directly over the heart of the nation where the drought is worst. The cornbelt is suffering, just like it did in […]
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