Archive for 2012
A sharp boundary seperates the cool Atlantic air over the British Isles, northern France, west Germany up through Scandinavia with the hot, maritime-continental air dominating Poland, Russia the Southeast of Europe . Along this boundary which acts like a trigger, brought a line of intense thunderstorms across Poland and the Ukraine in recent days with even the cancellation of the France v Ukraine match. As the ridge expands westwards, so the […]
[notice]The next 48 to 72 hours will see more sun than showers and temps which will warm into the 16-19C range for the North 18-22C for the South Tuesday, Wednesday[/notice] The rest of today, Tuesday and Wednesday should be fairly decent days with exception of Northern Ireland for western Scotland, tonight as rain spreads in from […]
The upcoming work week will be dominated by headline grabbing heat and humidity as temps soar into the 110s in Phoenix, 105-110 in Vegas and even the Red Bluff, Redding areas of the northern Sac Valley. Temps will soar into the upper 90s in both Salt Lake and Denver today while we likely see the first of several 120s in Death Valley.There […]
The drought in the UK is over while even France and down into Spain, drought conditions have eased considerably. In my summer forecast issued back on the 31 March I stated there would be two scenarios which would determine the type of summer season we would likely have here in the UK. One being that […]
As we kiss goodbye to the current system bringing a wet, windy and chilly night across Northern Ireland, parts of Scotland and Northern England, our eyes shift to the next system which will work into the Southeast of England late Sunday into Monday, this will bring a period of heavy rain to the Southeast while […]
It has been a really poor past 48 hours for June across many parts of the UK as another Atlantic low sweeps wind, rain and cold across the country. It has felt and even looked more like October rather than mid-June with my high here yesterday topping no higher than 48F (9C). The biting east wind made it feel worse. While much […]
The ECMWF has plenty of summer heat across much of the country through next week with a return to 90s for the Mid-Atlantic by Monday. While the strong and expansive west-east ridge keeps things warm, the model also shows a continuation of the rather active Pacific track storm with more strong low dropping out of the Gulf […]
A storm system working east along the International border has a cold front draped south over the Plains and as usual this is triggering thunderstorms which if they haven’t already, will turn severe as they run into increasingly hot and humid air out ahead. These surface temperatures in the map below greatly raise the lapse rate (measure of temperature difference with […]
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