Mark Vogan
Last week saw some of the hottest ever weather affect Spain and Portugal and for several places it indeed was the hottest ever observed despite national records remaining intact. Excerpt from wunderground.com Portugal and Spain. Portugal’s capital city Lisbon hit 111.2°F (44°C) on Saturday, its hottest temperature ever recorded. The previous record was 109.4°F (43°C) in 1981. […]
Like the Middle East’s Persian Gulf, the narrow Gulf of California is surrounded by desert or semi desert terrain which heats the water in between. In a typical summer the Gulf of California warms to between 25-30C (75-86F) with the thin strip of land on the west side known as the Baja of California heating […]
There’s been a lot of attention this spring and summer on the cool Atlantic and rightly so. According to Colorado State University’s index, the mean July 2018 AMO (Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation) was at it’s lowest value since 1950. The imbalance of warm Pacific, cool Atlantic through the tropics has led to stronger than normal easterly […]
Low 30s for England and mid 30s for France and low 40s for Iberia persist. With the exceptions of Iberia, this summer is turning out to be a relentless for heat. However for those sweating in southern England and much of France, there is very welcome relief on it’s way, we just need to get […]
When you think of Death Valley you automatically think extreme and heat. For years Death Valley has been considered one of, if not thee hottest place on earth and rightly so. Also for years, it was considered to have recorded the world’s second hottest ever temperature. 134.06F or 56.7C recorded at Furnace Creek Ranch back […]
The current heatwave blistering Iberia has been on the charts for at least a week and this one has grabbed global attention for the intensity. This is just the latest wave of heat in what’s been an already record warm summer for Western Europe. It’s just just Europe, local and national all-time heat records have […]
It’s been nothing short of a remarkable summer for heat globally with all-time records being set across parts of North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. The latest area is the Korean Peninsula. With a high of 40.7C in Hongcheon, South Korea sets a new all-time national heat record surpassing the previous record was 40.0C (104.0 […]
Could summer 2018 be remembered for the year the Mediterranean shifted to Scandinavia? An unusually persistent and hot sun with day after day soaring to between 27-32C on land and a lack of wind out over the water has allowed Scandinavian waters to heat to remarkable levels. Levels you’d even find warm in parts of […]
We have a blocked up pattern this week across the United States with ridging up West and East coasts with an unseasonably cool trough in between. The week opens with heatwave conditions into the Pacific Northwest interior as well as up into New England. However, with the ridge axis out over the Atlantic and closest […]
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