Archive for April, 2020
Old man winter decided to not show for the winter of 2019-20 not just over the USA but the majority of the hemisphere. Now that we’re well into spring when heat, storms and even hurricanes become the focus, winter decided to arrive, albeit 2 months late. With a shift in the big tropical drivers, the […]
While Easter 2020 will be far from anything anybody’s witnessed before, the weather will actually be not too dissimilar to last year which turned out record warm throughout the UK. https://twitter.com/MarkVogan/status/1251907422438019074 Like last Easter, we have a nice warm, near summer-like high centred east of the UK off the Danish, Dutch coast, as this system […]
The global driving mechanisms of ENSO, IOD and MJO which drove the hemisphere’s warmest winter and UK’s wettest February on record have finally changed gear but much too late for the snow and cold lover unfortunately. As a result of this ‘gear change’ combined with the natural seasonal shift, the westerlies have slackened and ridging […]
The pre-monsoon heat has been building faster and more intense than usual this year over southeast Asia thus producing a new March heat record for Thailand. On both 30, 31 March, 2020 a temperature of 42.9C was achieved in Thoen, northern Thailand. The previous Thai record for March was 42.8C set back in 2005. The […]
Situated 10,500ft at the peak of the Greenland sheet, the permanently manned research site of Summit Station shivered to record cold levels while much of the surrounding hemisphere was record warm. Typically, when there’s a positive Arctic and North Atlantic Oscillation present, Greenland is coldest while the continents are relatively mild. On January 2, 2020, […]
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