Mark Vogan
Cold easterlies blowing straight out of Scandinavia made much of the UK and Western Europe feel more like late February this weekend with many failing to see 10C and wind chills stuck in low single figures. Today’s surface pattern shows how our air originated in Russia. Here were today’s highs across Europe. Most were well […]
Article from ABC News By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Apr 9, 2019 10:40 PM Heavy rains killed at least 10 people and left a trail of destruction in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, raising questions about the city’s preparedness to deal with recurring extreme weather. Torrents of water gushed down streets, […]
Spring can be the most exciting time of year weatherwise for the US. A time of big atmospheric clashes and we’ve just that thanks to cold to the north, heat to the south and a still active storm track and fast moving jet stream. Low pressure crossing the Rockies often deepen to the east as […]
You’d expect days to warm as we approach mid-April, especially with a sun strength of early September but sometimes, winter doesn’t doesn’t want to let go. Remember the weird and wacky ups and down of last April with cold and snowy open followed by record warmth later in the month? Since the end of last […]
You often expect the Northern Hemisphere to deliver the biggest temperature extremes between hot and cold given most of earth’s land masses are north of the equator. The general rule of thumb is that the further you are away from a sea or ocean, the greater the swing in temperature between summer and winter with […]
From winter to summer in 5 days but… Front running 5 days. Cold lingers. We’re even talking potential plowable snow for southern New England and close to northern NYC burbs through the next 96 hours. But the following 5 days? Here comes spring! But does this warmth hold??? Not exactly… More cold dives south and […]
Without fail, if you get a mild February and or March, you haven’t seen the back of winter as it usually makes a comeback in April. February anomaly March anomaly First 10 days of April. Iberia looks particularly chilly in the 6-10 while chill eases over the UK. The 19C observed in both Sheffield and […]
While large swathes of the planet are warmer than normal this March, there are some exceptions. One of those exceptions being Antarctica and Greenland where it’s been colder than normal. Helped by a +AAO (Antarctic Oscillation) in the south and +AO/NAO in the north, the coldest air in both hemisphere’s have been allowed to bottle […]
Subtropical storms form on average once a year in the South Atlantic Ocean but fully tropical systems are much rarer. Tropical Storm Iba formed about 500 miles ENE of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last Sunday. This was the first fully tropical system to form in the southern hemispheric Atlantic since Tropical Storm Anita in March, […]
By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent Ben Nevis – the highest mountain in Britain – occasionally experiences periods at its summit when the air is bone dry. The revelation that this notoriously wet peak should have times of near-zero humidity comes from the analysis of a newly recovered, unique data-set. Weather observations were made around […]
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