Archive for 2012
It’s now official, it’s said in a very latest report that as much as 61% of the United States is in drought and the situation worsening by the day with drought conditions expanding as well as areas entering ‘exceptional’ status over parts of Arkansas into the lower Ohio Valley. One could blame the heat of not just June […]
[notice] SIGNIFICANT FLOODING FOLLOWING 3-6 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE LAST 24 HOURS WITH RAIN STILL FALLING CONTINUES TO CAUSE PROBLEMS AROUND HOUSTON, TX AND SURROUNDING AREAS AS WELL AS OTHER AREAS STRETCHING ALL THE WAY TO THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION [/notice] Over the past couple of days we have seen a LOT of rainfall over South Texas including the Houston […]
Yesterday saw the hottest day in a couple of years at Death Valley and for the US as the high soared to 126. While it wasn’t a record, Palm Springs topped an impressive 119 but out in Las Vegas, it did hit a record at 114. Phoenix, AZ was also hot but not as […]
The wet weather spreading in during Thursday and particularly Friday will continue the wet theme into the weekend but good news to those living in southern/central England and Wales, high pressure builds in from the southwest Sunday and will push north up as far as Manchester before coming up against resistance. Unfortunately the ridging goes no further and the north […]
I’m sure your starting to get sick and tired of all this rain, I understand where your coming from I really do. The slight good news is that we have a drier night on tap for many and where skies clear and with winds light, we could see lows dip in rural areas to 6 […]
I GUESS THE GREAT STORM OF 1987 AND ONES BACK THROUGH THE 18, 17, 1600S & BEYOND WHICH BROUGHT THE WORST OF BRITAIN’S WEATHER IS ALL DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING? IF NOT, WHAT WAS THE CAUSE THEN? It seems these days as though climate change or global warming can be blamed for pretty much everything and no explaination is needed. It […]
Over the next 5 days, the hottest temperatuires will be recorded from the Deserts to southern BC and Alberta while the coolest air (amazingly it’s still near or even slightly above norm) holds on from Denver to Atlantic City. Given the type of summer this has been, you just know the relief from Plains to […]
The western states are well and truely in the midst of the first big heatwave of 2012 thanks to an intensifying upper level ridge of high pressure currently centred over the Four Corners and extends all the way up into Canada. Death Valley peaked at 123° yesterday, setting a new yearly high for the site and US. Today may get close to […]
We saw as much as a months worth of rain fall within just 3 hours yesterday over parts of West Yorkshire and the heavy, torrential and slow moving rain clouds continue to bear down on central and eastern parts of England and Scotland at the moment. There is continuing concern for northeast England up into the Lothians […]
We have seen yet more flooding again today and tonight the amber warnings from the met office continue to stand with more heavy rains for parts of the south and north of Britain. We have from a meteorological point of view an interesting week of weather as some darn cold air is flowing southeastbound and will […]
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