Mark Vogan
The hyper active tropics is not only allowing amplification of the mid latitude pattern but driving highs into unfamiliar territory! The high latitudes! Hurricane Teddy looks to break away from the pack and run a due north course up into eastern Canada. This force high pressure north creating a downstream buckling and allowing the first […]
This past week, NASA revealed that solar cycle 25 has officially begun and that cycle 24 ended back in December 2019 when it reached a minimum. Solar cycle 24 reached it’s maximum back in April 2014. Solar cycle 23 ended and cycle 24 commenced back in late 2008 with Britain’s coldest winter since 1978-79 occurring […]
We have quite the interesting weather pattern this weekend thanks to low pressure to the north and high pressure to the south and a strong zonal jet stream roaring in between. Here was this afternoon’s visible satellite imagery below showing cloudless skies over southern Britain while gale-force winds and persistent rain affected Scotland, even Northern […]
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 […]
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