Archive for 2018
We’ve not one but two pretty deep lows by late April standards set to attack southern England, the first at the beginning of the weekend and the second, deeper system at the end of it. The first is bringing wet and windy conditions into southern England and Wales later today/tonight. The late weekend/Monday system is […]
Drought often ends with a flood and when cool Aprils end in the Dakotas and Minnesota it’s often with a sudden surge of spring. That’s certainly been the case and highly welcomed by all lively in a seemingly endless winter. Just days ago it was this around Minneapolis… https://twitter.com/Fairmont_Wx_Obs/status/986613183682154496 Now it’s all about this… https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/987116528763047936 […]
Recent springs have been dominated by hot, dry weather extending from Morocco up into Southwest Europe. Remember the record heat of March, April, May June and July heat last year? It started off with Alicante on the Costa Blanca soaring to 34.8C. A new all-time record for both March and April and hottest outwith Jun, […]
Despite the current warm-up, April 2018 is likely to go down as one of the coldest on record for the Northern, possibly Central Plains and Midwest with all sorts of records falling from snow to record cold days and nights. According to Joe Bastardi of weatherbell.com, the first 21 days of April were 3rd coldest […]
It’s been an interesting month and an interesting reversal in fortune. April started cool to downright cold with the 4th seeing several Scottish towns/cities witness their coldest April day including the coldest April day in 80 years for Edinburgh. Heavy snow and tricky travel accompanied the cold air. https://twitter.com/SeanBattySTV/status/981849155655143430 https://twitter.com/SeanBattySTV/status/981851087354384385 March turned out 3rd coldest […]
There has been some quite incredible temperature variability on the Plains this spring. In yesterday’s post I showed Dodge City, Kansas but their not alone. Thank or blame the worsening drought. Dry air cools and heats much more easily. Take Gage, Oklahoma as an example. Within 36 hours the thermometer goes from 10s to low […]
The very areas which suffered the cold and snowy March are now dealing with record April heat thanks to an abrupt shift in wind direction. Even early April got off to a cold, even snowy start and so this switch from winter to summer is probably about as fast as you’ll ever see. Many cities […]
Only in the Plains states do you see weird and wacky and wild back and forth temperature swings within a matter of hours and winter at daybreak followed by mid-July by dinner that same day! That’s exactly what Dodge City, Kansas got this week. Within just 48 hours, Dodge City went from a record low […]
When producing a seasonal forecast I like to look at several global and regional factors/players. They include the current and projected state of the ENSO index (El Nino Southern Oscillation index), global SST’s and particularly for summer, soil moisture content and rainfall distribution. Of course I also like to look back at previous years which […]
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