Archive for 2017
After maintaining 185 mph sustained winds for a record breaking 37 straight hours and buzz sawing through the Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Saint Martin, Turks and Caicos to name some, Irma now sets it’s sights on the southern Bahamas and Florida through the next 48 hours. Though ‘sustained’ winds were reduced to 150 mph and […]
Hurricane Irma continues to raise the bar in the threshold of hurricane power. Firstly setting a new record for strongest Atlantic hurricane outside of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico to a tie with Florida Keys 1935, Gilbert 1988 and Wilma 2005 for 2nd strongest in Atlantic based on 185 mph sustained winds. Allen 1980 has winds of 190 mph. However… […]
May and September can often be the UK’s best months for dry, settled and sunny weather and the more recent Septembers (& Mays) have proved just that. However September 2017 has gotten off to a rather changeable note and going by forecast models, there doesn’t appear to be much early autumn sun and warmth through at least mid […]
THIS POST WILL BE UPDATED THROUGHOUT TODAY Tuesday PM UPDATE: Hurricane Irma becomes first Atlantic Category 5 of 2017 and strongest since Felix 10 years ago. https://twitter.com/philklotzbach/status/905037369627222016 https://twitter.com/philklotzbach/status/905042432286277632 https://twitter.com/AndyHazelton/status/905036680457064448 Tuesday AM…. Clear of the dry air from a few days ago, Irma is free and continues to strengthen into a monster. Currently down to 937mb, Irma is packing […]
No change in the overall setup from Friday. Instead of fine sunny September weather, we appear to have stormy September weather on the way later this week and into next. According to the latest run of the GFS the first ‘windy’ low hits Thursday with coastal/high elevation gales generating rough seas. In it’s wake, it […]
Strong hair drier winds blowing from Sacramento Valley over the coastal range and through the gap towards the Pacific rewrote weather history of the Bay Area and surrounding region Friday, Saturday. An astonishing high of 106 degrees was recorded in Downtown San Francisco Friday surpassing the city’s all-time record high of 103 set in June 2000. Records date all the way back […]
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