With a western trough, eastern ridge this past weekend, we’ve seen unusually chilly and even snowy conditions from the Sierra to Wasatch with highs in north-central Nevada only mustering 45 degrees for a high but east of the Rockies and particularly east of the Mississippi and blistering heat was widespread on the other side of the jet. 100s sizzled the high […]
Rain was welcome but not the storm which killed 9 people and destroyed hundreds of shacks. While it’s winter in the southern hemisphere, South Africa and particularly the Cape can expect storm systems but the one which struck mid last week was exceptional. Said to be the worst in 30 years with 2 inches of rain […]
To say the weather has been a little upside down in the Western side of North America lately is probably a bit of an understatement. While parts of Alaska experienced record snow and cold during the first few days of June, recent days has been all about the heat with the first 90s of the year and in fact […]
An unusually deep Atlantic cyclone spinning west, northwest of Ireland is driving the weather across Western Europe with cool, blustery and showery conditions for Glasgow and Belfast, pleasantly warm for London and Paris but intensely hot for Madrid down to Seville. What you can expect through the rest of this week. Glasgow Costa Del Sol Visible satellite view showing the big Atlantic depression […]
Extremely heavy rain has recently fallen over Florida and the Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission core satellite looked at that some of that rainfall on June 7. Rainfall records were broken on that date as the GPM satellite passed overhead from space. On June 7, GPM found rain falling at a rate of over […]
After another thoroughly wet, windy and downright cool day (esp Scotland), today is fairing much better but there’s still plenty of showers following a northward area of rain lifting through Scotland this afternoon. Check out the temperature difference to start yesterday verses this morning. Big difference was the cloud, breeze and rain spreading north this […]
Last weekend hosted a heat wave over southeast Asia which put particular strain on Vietnam lately. Soaring heat quickly overcrowded hospitals and people were dying in the day by day 38+C heat. Northern parts of Vietnam suffered the most extreme temperatures and an approach on the all-time Vietnam record of 42.7C reached at Con Cuông in May 2015. The Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, […]
Yesterday was record cold by early June standards across the Northeast. Beneath laden skies, the thermometer failed to get out of the 50s as far south as New Jersey and 40s in parts of New England. Amazingly by the time we reach the end of the weekend, many sites will have recorded 90s with records […]
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