Archive for April, 2017
It seems that day after day, severe thunderstorms are sweeping the Southern US. Just two days ago, several large and damaging tornadoes swept the South and today, that same area hit hardest Monday, is under a moderate risk again today. Within the 48 hours between Sun-Mon, some 31 tornadoes was reported. A robust squall line […]
Posted on 4 April, 2017 by Met Office Press Office Provisional full-month statistics show that East Anglia and South East & Central Southern England have had their equal mildest March since records began in 1910, and for the UK as a whole it was provisionally the 5th equal warmest March for the same period. East […]
Thanks to the continuation of a highly active Pacific storm pattern, severe weather season 2017 is well and truly here across the Southern Tier while old man winter ain’t giving up without a fight across the Northern Tier. However, lows sliding west-east is allowing the clash of cold over Canada and distinctly summer-like warmth and humidity across the South to […]
Africa’s blast furnace heat is in the process of transferring hemisphere’s from south to north. During the spring months, the sub-Sahara region is in it’s dry season and therefore hottest while the Sahara remains comfortable until the dry season shifts north allowing the sub-Sahara rainy season to get going which the heat is focused directly over the Sahara. To […]
Strong early April sun and low pressure often leads to convective showers and thunderstorms, especially over a warming Mediterranean. We witnessed sun and convective showers over parts of the UK during Saturday but the bulk of the lightning activity was focused over northeast Iberia, southern France extending across the Balearics to Tunisia where low pressure and cooler air aloft and warmer air […]
With multiple large lows spinning out in the Atlantic, downstream southerly winds and ridging brought warm, sunny weather to a large swathe of Europe to end March. Thank the stormy NW Atlantic… Temperatures soared to summertime levels on March’s final days. The heat was on over France. This chart better represents May rather than late March. Circles represent […]
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