Mark Vogan
The system hammering the British Isles over the past 48 hours is no ordinary one for September bringing major flooding across large swathes of Northern England crippling rail and road transport between Scotland and England combined with near hurricane-force winds which have torn down numerous trees, even powerlines up and down the east coast of Scotland with howlling 70 mph onshore […]
Computer models show now-strong Hurricane Miriam taking a path which brings it ashore along the central Baja coast late this week. What’s significant is not so much the storm hitting this part of the world but the potential rainfall it could bring to the Northwest of Mexico/Southwest US as well as the Southern Plains. This […]
Since early Sunday, wind and rain has been battering Southern areas of Britain and today the strengthening winds and torrential rains have been slowly spreading north with the low which continues to deepen with a web of tightly wound isobars covering the British Isles. While rains ease in the South through tonight, winds will increase out of the northwest […]
We’re now entering deeper into autumn with winter fast approaching. October is pushing ever closer and this transitionary month can be a critical telltale month as to what we may expect later down the road. It was Joe Bastardi a few years back who said to me that often (not always), where the wettest weather and trough sets up […]
A cold upper low passing over the Great Lakes Friday night brought the first snows to parts of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin with several reports of a trace to as much as 1-2 inches which of course melted quickly due to warm ground. Following a cool day Saturday, clear skies, light winds became established thanks to a lobe of colder air coming down […]
The system which has been well advertised on here for the past 5 days is now impacting southern Britain. Rains are coming down hard across large swathes of South and Mid Wales and across all of southern England and it will continue throughout the while this canopy of heavy, persistent and at times torrential rain will continue advancing north up through the […]
Following the wet day across Northern Ireland, Scotland and Northern England, the rain and cloud sinks south tonight and this gives way for high pressure to build in fropm the Atlantic. Today should be glorious with plenty of sunshine from Northern Scotland where some showers will be had but sunshine should be plentiful all the […]
While 90-mph winds blasted southern Alaska yesterday, record rains fell too with as much as 8.17 inches of rain falling at normally dry(ish) Seward, a record which caused record river rises. According to AccuWeather, Resurrection River at Glacier Bridge rose to a record 19.97 feet. Grouse Lake at Grouse Creek rose to a record 9.71 feet. Both records […]



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