Mark Vogan
It seems like mother nature just loves to swing from one extreme to the other. Last month was the coldest, snowiest April on record. Minneapolis went from scenes like this last month… to this yesterday… Minneapolis was not alone. Within 43 days, Minneapolis went from a 26.1 inch all-time record April snowstorm to it’s earliest […]
With a strong upper level ridge of high pressure is parked over Scotland, we continue to enjoy a coastal California-like May with gloomy low cloud and sea mist morning’s which give way to glorious blue sky and 20s by afternoon. This was the scene in Oban yesterday. Even with the slackest of easterly flows, North […]
Yesterday and the previous few days have seen a marked east to west temperature contrast across Scotland. Brisk easterly winds crossing a cool North Sea meant coastal areas struggled to get much above 12C, made worse by low cloud, mist and fog known as haar. Further west and as the air crossed a warming land, […]
Recent Severe Cyclone Sagar set a few records last week by becoming the westernmost ever cyclone within the Indian Ocean basin. The cyclone was also the strongest to ever hit Somalia after traversing the entire east-west length of the hot Gulf of Aden. Despite being locked in on three sides by desert, the Gulf of […]
Remember the bitter cold and heavy snow of April? That may seem like a distant memory for Minneapolis and Minnesota now given the ‘sudden summer’ pattern currently underway. Today marks the fourth straight 90-degree day for Minneapolis which ties the longest stretch of consecutive 90s for the month of May. https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/1000775095433023489 Tracy, Minnesota has topped […]
It’s been a very dry past 10 days for Scotland, Northern Ireland and N England as well as right across Scandinavia and the next 10 days could be equally as dry. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some, perhaps many places which see little to no rain over the next 10 days where high […]
Subtropical storm Alberto has formed in the western Caribbean off the Yucatan and promises to track north towards the US Gulf Coast hammering Memorial Day weekend for beachgoers. Not the best of afternoon’s in Cancun due to the presence of Alberto just off to the east. Pre June 1 development has happened often over the […]
Thanks to a strong and anchored Scandinavian blocking high extending over Scotland much of this month, we can enjoy a rare, warm back to back May bank holiday weekend’s Remember back to the first weekend of the month and we set two records. With RAF Northolt recording a peak temperature of 28.7C, this surpasses the […]
While April was the coldest since 1997 for the US, in the starkest of contrasts, May is going to be the warmest for the US since 1983. While warmest for the nation, May has turned out very wet across Florida and Southeast and this soggy pattern looks likely to continue through much of June. June […]
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