Mark Vogan
THIS POST SHALL BE UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF HURRICANE HARVEY AND IT’S IMPACTS ON TEXAS. Saturday evening BST At 10pm CT Friday Hurricane Harvey came ashore as a Category 4 storm generating wind gusts of 132 mph. Scenes of severe damage continue to stream in around Rockport, Port Aransas and Port Lavaca where the […]
Thanks to a southward dive or split jet west of Ireland with main low nearer Iberia, we’re stuck in a slack air flow aloft over the British Isles with a slow moving low near NW Scotland which is providing cool, frequently showery conditions. However it’s much sunnier and warmer further south and east where pressure […]
Just a couple of days ago Harvey had faded to near nothing over the Caribbean and now we’re watching the same system rapidly organise into what could be a major hurricane and America’s first since Wilma of 2005. Pretty much all models point to Harvey coming ashore near Corpus Christi, TX late tomorrow evening / […]
Just two years ago we witnessed the survival of 73 snow patches, lasting from one winter to the next. The most since 1996. This year we’re seeing the least with only 3 remaining. 1 on Aonach Beag, the other two tiny patches tucked within Garbh Choire Mor on Braeriach. https://twitter.com/theiaincameron/status/899326138169921536 Garbh Choire Mor, Braeriach, 10 […]
We’re fast approaching the end of meteorological summer 2017 and below are some of the key talking points which will be remembered. Certainly to the east of the Rockies, heat wasn’t a big story but more rain and through the second half of summer, the cool, especially for the central US. Like last year, the […]
It’s been a VERY cool August for the majority of the US thus far and models don’t show much of a heat wave through September except for the Northwest. This will probably be the coolest August for the country since 2004 and perhaps coolest on record for parts of the Midwest. Interestingly, according to Steve […]
Today is quieter than recent days thanks to the departure of low pressure. The resbite is brief however as one low pulls out only allowing the remnants of Gert to move into southwestern areas this evening. Both Friday and Saturday saw gusty winds and frequent heavy, thundery showers. https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/899206607611072512 Today is MUCH better. Interestingly […]
Tropical Storm Harvey swept through the eastern Caribbean nation of Barbados Thursday-Friday causing damage and flooding rainfall. Winds gusted in excess of 50 mph with some locals saying this was the worst impacts from a tropical storm to hit the island nation since the 1980s. https://twitter.com/ClaudeTITINA/status/898541739740459009 https://twitter.com/ClaudeTITINA/status/898541849727709184 https://twitter.com/anumetservice/status/898643638183448576 https://twitter.com/anumetservice/status/898637785103511552
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