Archive for 2017
The above visible satellite images captures Monday evening’s intense storms over the Plains with their waves and overshooting tops at sunset. The clash between unusual cool encompassing a large portion of the country vs typical August heat and humidity coming up from the south is harnessing persistent stormy weather over the central and southern US. […]
There’s no question, it’s been a cool or very cool 1st half to August for the majority of the Lower 48 especially from Denver to New York as seen from the below temp anomaly map. Question is can we pull back summer before entering fall? CFSv2 weeklies indicate building warmth across the Northern Tier weeks […]
It’s been a month dominated by low pressure and a jet stream positioned to the south of the UK. So, following rain bearing weather fronts, it’s been a largely sunshine and shower regime with winds primarily WNW. Yesterday’s 25C (77F) became the UK’s warmest of August so far. We saw a mixed bag of weather […]
The tropics are lighting up with potentially the season’s 2nd hurricane and 8th named storm within the next 24 hours. Thanks to a cold front exiting the East Coast, Tropical Storm Gert shall remain a fish storm and pose no direct threat on the US but indirect impacts include increased surf and rip currents on […]
Your well aware of how poor and repetative our weather pattern has become in recent weeks and even in recent days I pointed out the importance of the Tropical Atlantic waking up and it’s role in potentially resetting the mid latitude pattern. Gert has formed east of Florida and shall ride the western flank of […]
Despite being in the midst of an above normal water year, Seattle is witnessing it’s driest summer on record with day after day of hot smoke filled air. The city has comfortably set a new record with 52 days without measurable rain. The lack of rainfall has aided in providing Seattle with it’s hottest opening […]
It’s been a noticeably disappointing first half to August over Ireland, British Isles and near continent even extending as far south as France and northern Iberia. In stark contrast to a well below normal opening 10 days for UK, N France, it’s been a well above normal open over Italy and the Balkans. August’s 2m […]
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