Archive for May, 2018
After scorching the Southwest last week, the first major hot dome of the year slide east bringing a record hot Mother’s Day weekend from Texas to the Carolinas. The Carolinas sweated the most with a near 100-degree afternoon yesterday in Columbia, SC. https://twitter.com/NWSRaleigh/status/995788607251275776 https://twitter.com/NWSColumbia/status/995779995271335937 https://twitter.com/NWSAtlanta/status/995769089703505920 Heat Gives Way To Tropical Rains As we progress into […]
The weather may be uneventful, even boring these days over the UK and Ireland but it’s not everywhere. Thanks to a strong flexing ridge over Scandinavia, it’s looked and felt like summer with yesterday warming to 25.8C at Lahti, south-central Finland. The average for May is 16C and even for July it’s only 22C. This […]
As you can clearly see from the below temperature anomaly chart, much of the Northern Hemisphere has well and truly pulled out of winter but the interior of Greenland’s vast icecap has not. Sure, away from the coastline, it’s typically chilly during May and cold deeper inland but the chill of late has been something […]
The Desert Southwest has received a very early taste of mid summer level heat with many daily records melting. Not surprisingly, Death Valley has been the hottest spot in North America for the last 4 straight days. A high of 116 is rare for this early. A record 105 degrees set at McCarren Intl Airport, […]
The Pacific off South America’s west coast is typically too cool for support tropical cyclones and so the feature which has popped up in the last 36 hours off Chile could be a first. The below chart showing global tropical cyclone tracks say it all. There is no record of anything in this region of […]
Spring 2018 will go down as one of the most up and down and extreme that I can remember. Let’s start from the beginning, March hosted not one but two ‘beast from the easts’. On the 1st of the month many towns and cities observed their coldest March day on record from Shetland to Somerset. […]
Check out this amazing map below displaying the nearly 9 billion lightning strikes which have hit earth in the last 5 years. The map clearly shows where our lightning hot spots are around the world and where there’s least. Vaisala, a Finland-based maker of weather- and environmental-monitoring equipment, detected 8.76 billion lightning strikes from 2013 […]
No two springs are ever the same, especially on the Plains with one year too wet, another too dry, too hot and this year, too dry and cool. As your probably well aware, the great plains is home to some of the most dramatic, diverse and extreme weather on the planet. Geography and position within […]
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