Mark Vogan
The very areas which suffered the cold and snowy March are now dealing with record April heat thanks to an abrupt shift in wind direction. Even early April got off to a cold, even snowy start and so this switch from winter to summer is probably about as fast as you’ll ever see. Many cities […]
Only in the Plains states do you see weird and wacky and wild back and forth temperature swings within a matter of hours and winter at daybreak followed by mid-July by dinner that same day! That’s exactly what Dodge City, Kansas got this week. Within just 48 hours, Dodge City went from a record low […]
When producing a seasonal forecast I like to look at several global and regional factors/players. They include the current and projected state of the ENSO index (El Nino Southern Oscillation index), global SST’s and particularly for summer, soil moisture content and rainfall distribution. Of course I also like to look back at previous years which […]
By Jesse Beyer Chief Meteorologist Global News April 12, 2018 This year, Edmonton has seen the spring of many seasons. We have had a massive fluctuation in temperatures every week in 2018, with temperatures fluctuating between +8 C and -10 C for daytime highs at Edmonton’s Blatchford weather station. The real story may be the […]
We knew it was coming but I must admit I didn’t expect this warm. It’s amazing how quickly a pattern can flip around given the cool first half to April. The BBC’s latest numbers for the Greater London area is up at 28C. If hit, it would be the UK’s warmest April day since 1949. […]
According to meteorologist Daryl Ritchison based in Fargo, for the state of North Dakota as a whole, the first 15 days of April is the coldest on record and records date back to the 1800s. We of course know how cold it was in the late 1800s and early 1900s in this notoriously cold part […]
Thanks to a fairly persistent east, southeast air flow during early April, we’ve had quite the extremes on both ends of the precipitation and sunshine ledger in Scotland this month. In fact the driest, wettest, dullest and sunniest places so far this April have all been in Scotland. After observing it’s coldest April day on […]
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