Archive for 2018
It’s been an extraordinary summer so far with 16 consecutive days in which somewhere in the UK has hit 28C or higher and 5 consecutive days above 30C. Scotland typically enjoys a heatwave for no more than 10 days and often sees an end to heatwaves before England as high pressure is typically replaced by […]
The setup was perfect with strong upper ridging and offshore flow for maximum heating throughout the LA Basin last week. At UCLA in the Westwood district of Los Angeles it hit 111 degrees surpassing it’s previous all-time record of 109 set back in September 1939. Downtown LA topped 108 degrees, failing to reach the all-time […]
So the 2018 heatwave continues with yesterday seeing Britain’s 3rd straight 31C day with today an inevitable 4th as hot stable air remains firmly trapped beneath our continental style blocking high. A high which has been parked over the UK for weeks with only subtle shifts. The 2018 heatwave so far. The Irish Republic has […]
It’s been a scorching open to July 2018. The heat which engulfed the entire Eastern US this past week first impacted the Great Basin and Rockies. Denver reached 105 degrees tying their all-time record. Nearby Colorado Springs hit 100, Cheyenne, WY hit 99. Both cities missed their all-time record by just 1 degree. Along with […]
Dr. Jeff Masters · July 2, 2018, 1:26 PM EDT An unusually concentrated plume of African dust invaded the U.S. over the weekend, bringing dangerously high levels of fine particulate pollution (PM2.5, particles less than 2.5 microns or 0.0001 inch in diameter). The dust from the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) arrived in Texas on Thursday, […]
If this heatwave was to continue through the rest of July then the summer of 2018 could go down as one of the greats and longest in recorded history. It’s already been historic! It seems high pressure has been parked over the UK for weeks and in a sense it has with cool, wet spells […]
According to the Met office, a new all-time record may have been achieved for Scotland on the afternoon of June 28. Glasgow topped out at 31.9C (89F) on the same day setting a new all-time record for the city. However while the Met Office combed through all the observations that day, it appears Motherwell in […]
While Scotland has reached the relatively rare 30C mark just twice in the last 10 years and four times since the turn of the millennium, Glasgow has had 30C in it’s sights on several occasions including 2006, 2013, 2014 but has always fallen short. Yesterday changed that. Wednesday’s high climbed to 29.5C, a value the […]
30C is pretty much an annual occurrence over southeast England but the further north you go the rarer it becomes. Yesterday was the first time in many years where Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland ALL reported 30C. For Northern Ireland and Scotland, it was the warmest June day since 1995 with Castlederg, Tyrone […]
While most of the attention is on the end of June/beginning of July heat wave for the Eastern US and Canada, many across Newfoundland woke yesterday morning, Tuesday June 26th to a rare covering of ‘late June’ snow. Latest measurable snow on record Unfortunately for Gander residents, this has been a familiar sight this month. […]
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