The trough plunging into the UK behind tomorrow’s front is deep with thicknesses down to 546 over Scotland, sub 560 over London which supports very cold air aloft. An associated cut off low within the trough will keep an unsettled as well as chilly theme throughout this weekend with daytime temps holding at only 14-16C in Scotland, northern England and […]
I stand by my original forecast for tomorrow in which I believe thunderstorms WILL pep up during the mid to late morning hours onwards as the core of hottest, most humid air over France will get pushed north with mini fronts enhancing the steamy air mass firmly established over the Southeast of England. It’s not only the southbound cold front as […]
The past 6 months have been record warmest for a large swath of the Lower 48 and with drought becoming more and more firmly established over the past couple of months, so the heat has intensified directly over the heart of the nation where the drought is worst. The cornbelt is suffering, just like it did in […]
Throughout this morning there have been plenty of strong, even severe thunderstorms roaming eastwards from the Dakotas into the Great Lakes around the hot dome centering 100-degree heat to the south. While the heat has been relentless all summer across the heartland, so the lows sliding over top along the US-Canada border have acted like triggers […]
It’s been another hot day across the southern half of the British Isles, a phrase I rarely use but it pops up a couple of times a year when the temperature surpasses 30C (86F). Though we await the official high from the Met Office, the temperature has topped at least 31C (88F) today around London making this the […]
Well I think we can all pretty much agree on where August is going when it comes to the average Plains temps! The intense heat focused right over the heart of the tinderbox ain’t going nowhere during August, in fact we may even see it equally as hot during this final meteorological month of summer 2012 as what […]
We’ve made it! summer is here.. well for the southern half of the UK that is. While temps soared to a balmy 86°F or 30°C this afternoon over Great London, temps only got to between 16-17°C over a cloudy, damp Northern Ireland, northern England and southern Scotland. This corridor of dreary weather marked a boundary seperating the very […]
Typhoon Vicente rapidly intensified over the warm waters of the South China Sea before striking the Chinese coast near Hong Kong at an intensity equivalent to a category 3-4 hurricane. It brought 83 mph winds to Hong Kong… More on this later!
There’s no question, the Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season has been noneexistant after it’s rapid start and here’s a lot of the reason why! This dry air has been carried across the tropical Atlantic by much stronger than normal easterlies, has surpressed convection and moist air and any waves which emerged from off Africa, quickly became […]
A near stalled frontal boundary seperates the north with south. Along the slow southward moving front today, rains have been persistent and at times heavy. Here in Lennoxtown, it took till late afternoon for the rains to finally stop while temps soared to 28C at Writtle in Essex this afternoon. The front will hold over […]
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