Archive for September, 2018
Up until the beginning of last week, September was looking largely high pressure dominated but with a sharp increase in global cyclone activity, the prospects shifted quite abruptly. This pattern shift is in contrast to the remarkably persistent ridging and settled weather of June and July. The tropical Pacific has been playing a key role […]
We have an ocean to atmosphere feedback setup and pattern which could spell a serious problem to the US. Waters from the Gulf of Maine down to the Delmarva are running at record warm levels. SST’s of 84 degrees have been reported off Cape May, NJ. There’s an noticeable response in the atmosphere above with […]
First it was a record breaking rain and flood event, then record breaking heatwave which saw highs reach 41.1C setting a new national record followed by another record rain event. Now Japan is reeling from it’s strongest Typhoon to hit the country in 25 years. Japan is no stranger to typhoons. In fact they hit […]
The below article is from the Met Office. 31 August 2018 Update: Having further assessed the temperature data for the UK as a whole for summer 2018 the figures are so close that we are declaring it as the joint hottest on record together with 2006, 2003 and 1976. The margin between the mean temperatures […]
The southern Iraqi city of Basra, located 68 miles from the Persian Gulf and sandwiched narrowly between Kuwait and Iran hit 50.7C on the 1st September. This surpasses Iraq’s previous September record of 49.6C set at Nasiriyah set exactly two years ago to the day on 1 September, 2016. Info credit to Etienne Kapikian. Interestingly that same […]
Up until now the focus has been across the Pacific and it’s busy 2018 season while the Atlantic has remained quiet as expected. This is typical of warm ENSO years where the tropical east and west Pacific is warm and Atlantic cool. As you can see from the two below charts, there’s been a frenzy […]
Just two days after Braemar dipped to an overnight low of -1.3C on the morning of August 31, just two afternoon’s later and Lossiemouth warmed to 26C. Braemar’s low was the lowest UK value since May and of all the summer but with the aid of an approaching front driving warm SSW winds over the […]
Following a fairly warm winter across much of Antarctica and indeed large swathes of interior Australia, it’s turned brutally cold just when you’d expect temperatures to begin rising as spring approaches. The build-up of deep cold over Antarctica has spilled out over the Southern Ocean lately. Just how cold has it gotten in Antarctica? https://twitter.com/ZdenekNejedly/status/1034454076615012354 […]
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