Archive for July, 2017
By Jason Samenow June 29 (This post, originally posted on June 29, was updated on July 3.) A city in southwest Iran posted the country’s hottest temperature ever recorded Thursday afternoon, and came very close to the world record for the most extreme high temperature. Etienne Kapikian, a forecaster at French meteorological agency MeteoFrance, posted to Twitter […]
94L is just the latest system showing signs of organisation on departure of the African coast. Unusually warm waters combined with an unusually hot Sahara are likely behind the Cabo Verde seasons early start. No surprise in the recent early activity when the waters of the MDR (main development region) where warmest on record for the month of […]
Given the intensity of the Southwest heat wave, it should be of no surprise that some southwestern cities recorded their hottest June in recorded history. Meanwhile on the other side of the country, a persistent plume of rich Caribbean moisture directed straight at Florida essentially wiped out Florida’s drought. June’s heavy rains wash away Florida’s […]
It’s a raw and dreary Tuesday under the rain clouds draped across N Ireland, southern Scotland and northern England but north of the front while bright, it’s fresh but to the south increasingly warm and humid. The rain band split across the UK is marks the divide between fresh Atlantic air and warm, humid continental air. While conditions improve Wednesday with much […]
In the past 10 days, Europe has seen extremes on both ends of the thermometer. The heat wave commenced in the western end of the continent last month and is ending on the eastern end. July starts off the scale cool for parts of Algeria, Spain and France while it’s opposite for Greece and Turkey. […]
30 June 2017 Early statistics show June 2017 has been amongst the wettest on record, despite the hot and dry spell of weather that many saw in the middle of the month. Scotland has provisionally experienced its equal-wettest June on record (shared with 1938) with 156mm of rainfall, 75% above its average for the month. […]
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