Archive for September, 2018
It’s turned November-like over the western Prairies of Canada and this looks to be a hint of what’s to come further south as we depart Sept and say hello to Oct. Note the ridge building into AK. Here’s the GFS ensemble 6-10 2m temp anomaly for 6-10. CFSv2 2m anomaly for week 2 is more […]
It’s turning out to be quite the stormy September with one deepening low after the next lining up to strike the UK. It’s like the atmosphere is playing catch up after the unusually lengthy spell of quiet during the summer. The flip in the skipping rope goes down to the uptick in global tropical activity […]
Super Typhoon Mangkhut was the West Pacific’s 31st depression, 22nd storm and 9th typhoon of 2018 and was the globe’s strongest tropical cyclone of the year packing sustained winds of 180 mph at it’s peak. The highest storm warning (signal 4) was raised for the northern provinces of Luzon in anticipation of the Cat 5 […]
With a busy tropics globally of late, we have seen a lot of warm, humid air lift north thus powering an unusually strong 175 mph Atlantic jet stream. This is throwing one ‘autumnal low’ after the other across the UK. Hot on the heels of Ex Hurricane Helene, the UK, particularly Northern Ireland and southern/central […]
It’s been on the charts for several days and now we’re under Helene’s wind and rain this evening. Nothing unusual about this but sure is bringing a wet night here in Oban with local flooding a given. Latest radar shows that I’m under the shield of heaviest rains from Helene. Surface/precip chart for tonight. While […]
Florence may not have lived up to it’s initial billing as the strongest Carolina hurricane in history but it certainly did for it’s excessive rainfall which has put large parts of North Carolina and South Carolina under water, killing 18 so far. Like with Harvey last year, Hurricane Florence stalled allowing rain bands to sit […]
Article from www.wunderground.com Bob Henson · September 14, 2018, 11:21 PM EDT Relentless rainbands sweeping around Tropical Storm Florence continue to drench parts of North and South Carolina already waterlogged after days of torrential downpours. Florence’s center—located about 40 miles west of Myrtle Beach, SC, at 11 am EDT Saturday, with top sustained winds down […]
Since my last post on Florence, the hurricane’s core has weakened in intensity and structure has become disorganized, likely due to dry air entrainment. However, despite it’s core winds (a small central portion of the storm) down from 140 to 110 mph, in a sense ‘the damage may have already been done’ because the system […]
No we won’t see a hurricane but if current projections are in any way right, our weather could be reshaped by the northward presence of tropical energy. Tropical systems can do one of two things or both for Europe, 1) make a direct impact bringing wind and rain from it’s former tropical self or 2) […]
After the near silence over the Atlantic in July and through much of August, we’re approaching the peak of the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season and dealing with a tempest. Florence (as expected) has underwent rapid intensification over the bath-tub warm waters of the Western Atlantic. Florence has went from 75 to 130 mph within 24 […]
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