Now that we have Hurricane Kirk out over the central Atlantic and the fact that it’s intensified, that will help Kirk feel those upper level steering winds and the weakness in the Mid-Atlantic ridge. Certainly looking 4-5 days out it could appear as though Kirk could take a run at the UK by riding over top of […]
While Isaac relentlessly pounds the Gulf Coast and is now ever so slowly creeping north, spreading vast amounts of rain with it up across Louisiana and Mississippi, the heat is on across the Northern Plains where temperatures are climbing into the mid-100s across the Dakotas this afternoon. A strong upper high is supporting these warm numbers but with […]
Unfortunately I have nothing particularly positive to say about our forthcoming 5-7 day period as we are firmly in the firing line of a strong and zonal jet stream which will continue to throw low pressure our way for the forseeable future. However things are going to settle down somewhat over the southern half of Britain from […]
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Hurricane Isaac continues to hold an impressive structure on radar and satellite presentation despite making not one but two landfalls along the Louisiana coast. The warm, moist, swampy land down across far southern Louisiana and slow forward speed in the single digits with a period in which it stalled, drifted west and hugged the coast, all […]
It would appear from the latest satellite presentation that Isaac’s eye is trying to become better organised right at the point it looks s as though it’s coming ashore on the southeastern tip of Louisiana. The warm, marshy terrain down here would suggest little weakening for some time yet and it wouldn’t surprise me if […]
Well interestingly, Isaac above all places to get it’s true act together is as it’s coming shore along the Louisiana coast. It’s officially an 80 mph Category 1 Hurricane but recent dropsonde measurements have confirmed the system is intensifying with pressures down to 971mb and may in fact continue falling before the center comes onshore […]
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