Archive for 2017
Amazingly, Ophelia has become the farthest east Category 3 MAJOR hurricane on record. It continues to set it’s sights on Ireland and western/northern UK early next week as a powerful and potentially destructive extra tropical cyclone. It hits bang on the 30th anniversary of the Great Storm! https://twitter.com/MeteoGib/status/919213055476752385 Track more certain than strength Track of […]
It’s an October which shall be remembered for two H words. Heat and hurricanes and I guess snow in Montana and coldest for Rockies! It appears that the remainder of the month shall stay warmer than normal and this suggests that October 2017 could wind up one of the country’s warmest east of the Mississippi. […]
There’s a heck of a lot of attention on late weekend into next week and rightly so but let’s look quickly at the here and now. The current system centered near Iceland has brought not only spells of heavy rain and gusty winds but exceptionally mild temperatures before daybreak this morning as well as this […]
By Brian Donegan weather.com At a Glance Well-above-average temperatures will continue to dominate parts of the Midwest and East the next several days. Highs will reach the 70s and 80s in many locations, making it feel more like August than October. Dozens of locations are experiencing a top-five warmest October through this point in the month. […]
The Lake District is arguably Britain’s wettest place, particularly when it comes to 24 hour rainfall. Within the last 10 years, two rain gauges within this notoriously soggy region have recorded the biggest 24 hour rainfall on record for the UK. Yesterday saw another deluge but thankfully not to the same extremity as 2009 and 2015. Seathwaite Farm first […]
California has a long dark history of destructive and devastating wildfires but the Tubbs firestorm of October 2017 will likely go down as one of the state’s worst. The scenes coming out of Santa Rosa in the Wine Country NE of San Francisco resembled those of the state’s worst fire disaster, the Oakland Hills Fire […]
Ophelia is poised to become the 10th straight Atlantic hurricane of the 2017 season which ties a very long standing record for most consecutive Atlantic named storms to become a hurricane. The other three years of which this has occurred is 1878, 1886 and 1893. This is a NHC track you don’t see everyday. TD Seventeen has […]
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