What an incredible display and variety of extreme weather on all corners of North America these days. While it snowed in Newfoundland, Alaska likely experienced it’s coldest late May system on record with temperatures of -37F at 17,000ft and an all-time record May snow in Barrow, all the while Sunday was one of Miami’s hottest days ever, never mind hottest in May. Snow covered ground in […]
In the past week, July-like heat has been surging northward out of Africa over Western Europe in between an Atlantic low near Ireland and high over Europe. Many monthly records have fallen starting off with Spain and Portugal, then France, then UK, Low Countries and now Scandinavia. Yesterday’s Europe highs The thermometer rose to a brand new May level in Norway Friday with […]
Another weekend, another storm with extremes. This time it’s the Memorial Day weekend where there’s a lot of outdoor activity from travelling to grilling. You know the drill, cool, dry Canadian air sweeps out of Alberta over the Rockies while hot builds up the West Coast and hot, humid conditions from Texas to Florida thanks to flow from Caribbean and […]
HP positioned over the North Sea and LP pushing into Ireland means we’re pulling our air up from Iberia where temps have been sweltering in the record upper 30s. Several places in western France set new monthly records for May yesterday. Brest and Nantes amoung the cities in WNW France which set new monthly record […]
By Jon Erdman and Linda Lam May 25 2017 11:30 AM EDT weather.com Story Highlights NOAA expects 11 to 17 named storms this season, more than the 30-year average for the Atlantic Basin. The Weather Company predicts 14 named storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes this season. Warmer North Atlantic sea surface temperatures and the reduced […]
By Jonathan Belles May 23 2017 02:30 PM EDT weather.com A monster 64-foot wave was measured last weekend following an exceptionally strong storm that barreled through the Southern Ocean. “This is one of the largest waves recorded in the Southern Hemisphere,” said MetOcean senior oceanographer Dr. Tom Durrant. The wave was measured roughly 400 miles south of […]
Temperatures were plenty warm yesterday but shall rise to mid-summer levels today, tomorrow and Saturday with England, Wales and even Scotland all challenging the year’s first 30C mark. Southeast England should surpass it Saturday. The reason, very hot air bubbling over Iberia and France lifts north over the UK as high pressure slides east and low pressure approaches from the west. Classic high pressure, summertime visible […]
The great reduction in US drought area during the first 4-5 months of the year has been excellent for growing areas and is likely to influence the fast approaching summer. Greater coverage of wet ground and shrinkage of drought area should translate to cooler, wetter conditions across a broad swathe of the country in June. Amazing contrast between worst (2012) […]
It was a scorcher over parts of Iberia yesterday. On the Portuguese Atlantic coast, with the aid of easterlies offshore winds, the thermometer soared to 35.1C in Portugal’s second largest city, Porto. It surpassed the city’s previous May record of 34.7C set back in 1965. The city’s all-time record is 40.9C. Meanwhile, the thermometer also soared to a […]
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