Piece from Weather Underground Blog An already-hot summer has kicked into overdrive over a large swath of southeast Europe, where one of the worst droughts in decades has taken hold this summer. Temperatures again soared above 100°F on Thursday across large sections of drought-ravaged Italy. On Tuesday, the iconic city of Florence set an all-time […]
Tropical Storm Franklin is set to make landfall overnight tonight on the southern end of Mexico’s Yucatan. Currently winds sustained at 60 mph but this system could approach hurricane status prior to landfall and if so would be the 2017 season’s first for the Atlantic. Check out these webcams out of Cancun earlier capturing the […]
For seemingly an eternity, a stubborn upper low has brought distinctly non-summer-like weather to Ireland and the UK with fronts providing spells of persistent rain, gusty winds coupled with a sunshine and shower regime either side. While the UK remains poor and cool, it’s blazing hot in southern Europe… It’s all down to the jet […]
The weather and forecast wasn’t great with low cloud and a risk of showers but I was ready for another climb. The alarm sounded at 12am Sunday 31 July with two areas in mind. 1st choice was the mighty 3,789ft Lochnagar, 2nd choice was 3 munros to the west of the Glenshee Ski Area. The forecast for Lochnagar […]
Article from Capital Weather Gang By Jason Samenow August 4 at 3:05 PM The first of several deep pools of cold air dropped into the Upper Midwest on Thursday, ushering in a period of below-normal temperatures for the next 10 to 14 days for the eastern two-thirds of the country. In Wisconsin and Michigan on […]
The upper air pattern remains the same with the trough supplying cool and showery weather to the UK, while a downstream ridge keeps the blowtorch going across South and East Europe. The extreme heat remains relentless over southern Spain (44.7C in Cordoba yesterday), southern France (41C), Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy and the Balkans (42C) with widespread mid to upper 30s, low 40s. RED […]
We’re into August and right on schedule the tropics are beginning to bubble with a healthy chain of AEW (African easterly waves) riding a prominent AEJ (African easterly jet) out over a warmer than normal MDR (Main development region) stretching from Africa to Mexico. There are two waves currently being monitored and are expected to develop. https://twitter.com/EricBlake12/status/893103154212065280 […]
The cool, breezy and often showery pattern holds firm over the UK and Ireland while the blowtorch continues to the south and east. A 2nd unusually strong blast of African air has engulfed the Balearics in recent days. First we see an overnight minimum temperature fail to drop below 33.6C. https://twitter.com/AEMET_Baleares/status/892650181937836032 Followed by a low […]
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