Today has been a much improved day across London and the Southeast compared to yesterday where heavy showers and thunderstorms roamed the region, impacting and disrupting some events including the cycling and tennis to name just two. As I glance at the current models, the outlook doesn’t give an overly warm picture nor a particularly […]
If you thought today was hot with widespread 105° to 110° heat, it looks like things are about to grow even hotter from central Texas to north Kansas in coming days as the upper ridge intensifies overhead. Such cities as Wichita Falls, TX, Oklahoma City, OK and Wichita, KS to name just 3, may surpass […]
Olympic Weather: Thunderstorms Struck Today But A Brighter Monday Is On Tap Before More Rain Tuesday
As expected, the rains arrived across the Southeast with some decent thunderstorms producing local downpours, gusty winds and decent lightning displays. The good news is that Monday looks drier, brighter and a little warmer as there is a break between systems tomorrow. The bad news is that this dry, sunny slot is short lived as more rain […]
There is plenty of scientific evidence which shows net temperature fluctuations around the globe correlates perfectly with ocean temperature. While much of the media would have you think that the increase in Co2 is rising our planets temperature, the rise since the start of the 1980s is down to an increase in sun activity which warms […]
I guess a good reason behind the well above normal precipitation which set in back in April and continued ever since across the UK and Scandinavia is thanks, in part to the flip from back to back La Ninas to an El Nino, helped by the still warm North Atlantic Oscillation and prodominantly -NAO. The big question is what […]
Good afternoon and hope your all enjoying your weekend so far. Did you enjoy the opening ceremony? It certainly was quite the specticle and certainly makes one proud to be British. Hope you enjoyed the warm sunshine last week because we’re set for a reality check which will take us through the next 7 days on […]
The summer of 2012 from Denver to St Louis and really to Washington DC will be remembered for a long time as one long , brutal, hot, dry and dusty summer. Folks throughout the heart of the Plains, Front Range of the Rockies and Midwest have had no rest this year and over the next […]
Any showers which affected parts of the Southeast today into tonight will clear and this should leave a fine, dry and fairly bright Saturday though considerably cooler and less humid than today has been. It was yet another 80+F day in London with high humidity but tomorrow expect highs to struggle reaching 70F and by […]
The above image was captured on live TV in New York City yesterday during the height of the wild storms as they pushed through the city. It was an impressive day for severe storms with a copious amount of wind damage reports and there was some tremendous lightning displays. In the below chart, notice there […]
Here is a cool chart created by AccuWeather.com about the extremes of weather during past summer olympic games…
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