Archive for 2018
After a cold March and even colder April, there is confliction between the modelling and my thinking as we go forward. I believe April 2018 was 3rd coldest for the US since the beginning of the satellite era. 1983 remains coldest because it was colder in the Southwest compared to this year. Confliction between man […]
Welcome to my 8th annual summer forecast for Europe. As always, there are several global, regional and local factors which have been taken into consideration when putting together this forecast including the type of winter we’ve just observed. Neutral to slight positive ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) We currently have a slight negative but neutral […]
By Jon Erdman Apr 30 2018 01:05 PM EDT weather.com Snow-removal crews at Montana’s Glacier National Park are finding the annual spring plowing of roads tougher after an impressive winter snowpack that remains well above average by late April standards. The National Park Service posted a series of photos over the past week showing drifts […]
In search of some early heat? Well your unlikely to get any during much of May across the favoured sunspots of SW Europe. In fact it’s been a very different spring this year compared to last year when dry, hot weather was the rule. This year, it’s struggling to truly warm up, well by Spanish […]
It’s been an impressive April for cold in the Northern Tier. As well as the hundreds of record cold highs and lows set, not one but two states may have set an all-time record low for April. Not something you see very often. Especially in a seemingly warming world. Michigan may well have obliterated their […]
We’ve a highly amplified pattern to end April over Europe with deep trough drilling south supporting snow in Spain while a downstream upper ridge is pumping summer heat into Italy, Balkans, Greece and Turkey. Two new national records have been set in the Balkans. The pool of unusual cool with deep surface low tracking north […]
A site on the Hawaiian island of Kauai may have set a new US 24-hour rainfall record. Hawaii is well known for heavy rainfall events but an astonishing 1-day rainfall event between April 14-15th may well have raised the bar of US extremes further. Preliminary data suggests Waipa on the island of Kauai recorded 49.69 […]
On April 24th, the city of Irkutsk, located in the heart of Siberia just west of a still part frozen Lake Baikal (contains 20% of world’s fresh water) soared to 27.9C in a sudden swing from winter to summer. While the April 24th reading is 15C above normal for late April and warmest for this […]
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