Archive for 2020
It just seems like heat records are endlessly melting across many parts of the world from across northern Siberia to Thailand and up to Taiwan and Japan. Oh and California and the Western US. July of 2006 was a particularly sweltering month for the United States and particularly Southern California as countless long standing heat […]
Furnace Creek, a small town on the edge of Death Valley, California has been long regarded as the hottest place on earth as most summers here record the highest temperature on earth. According to the World Meteorological Organisation, the much disputed 134F reading set in 1913 at Greenland Ranch still remains the world record today. […]
The summer of 2020 will likely be remembered for the period between July 30 and August 10. It was between these dates an this brief period in which historic heat occurred. Otherwise it was a rather changeable and often cool, damp summer. Here’s how the 500mb geopotential height anomaly has looked for summer 2020. In […]
Summer 2020 will be remembered as ‘very changeable’ but with extremes of wet, cool and hot. In terms of 500mb pattern, the summer forecast has been good with low pressure the rule. Actual 500mb geopotential anomaly from 1 June – 10 Aug. While June was slightly warmer-than-average, July was slightly below average and as forecast, the […]
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