Good evening all. Sorry for the late post. I trust you have read the post I wrote up this morning at 4.30am before hitting the road? It’s been a long but great day driving through some of the UK and world’s best scenery. I covered 600 twisty, hilly miles (2,000 miles in the past 6 days) from Glasgow […]
Hope you enjoyed the drier, brighter weather of yesterday because we’re back to reality once again this morning. In fact last night, you folks across the South of England likely saw a rather wet night. The band of rain which broght you the wet night is now positioned across north Wales and the north Midlands, […]
[warning] PARTS OF WESTERN JAPAN HAS RECIEVED THEIR GREATEST 24-HOUR RAINFALL TOTALS ON RECORD, PRODUCING LANDSLIDES AND CAUSING AS MANY AS 15 DEATHS [/warning] A boundary which sets up during the summer months over mid-latitude Asia known as the ‘rainy season boundary’, lifted north and stalled over Japan over the past 36 hours producing astonishing and record breaking […]
It’s now official, it’s said in a very latest report that as much as 61% of the United States is in drought and the situation worsening by the day with drought conditions expanding as well as areas entering ‘exceptional’ status over parts of Arkansas into the lower Ohio Valley. One could blame the heat of not just June […]
[notice] SIGNIFICANT FLOODING FOLLOWING 3-6 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE LAST 24 HOURS WITH RAIN STILL FALLING CONTINUES TO CAUSE PROBLEMS AROUND HOUSTON, TX AND SURROUNDING AREAS AS WELL AS OTHER AREAS STRETCHING ALL THE WAY TO THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION [/notice] Over the past couple of days we have seen a LOT of rainfall over South Texas including the Houston […]
Yesterday saw the hottest day in a couple of years at Death Valley and for the US as the high soared to 126. While it wasn’t a record, Palm Springs topped an impressive 119 but out in Las Vegas, it did hit a record at 114. Phoenix, AZ was also hot but not as […]
The wet weather spreading in during Thursday and particularly Friday will continue the wet theme into the weekend but good news to those living in southern/central England and Wales, high pressure builds in from the southwest Sunday and will push north up as far as Manchester before coming up against resistance. Unfortunately the ridging goes no further and the north […]
I’m sure your starting to get sick and tired of all this rain, I understand where your coming from I really do. The slight good news is that we have a drier night on tap for many and where skies clear and with winds light, we could see lows dip in rural areas to 6 […]
I GUESS THE GREAT STORM OF 1987 AND ONES BACK THROUGH THE 18, 17, 1600S & BEYOND WHICH BROUGHT THE WORST OF BRITAIN’S WEATHER IS ALL DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING? IF NOT, WHAT WAS THE CAUSE THEN? It seems these days as though climate change or global warming can be blamed for pretty much everything and no explaination is needed. It […]
Over the next 5 days, the hottest temperatuires will be recorded from the Deserts to southern BC and Alberta while the coolest air (amazingly it’s still near or even slightly above norm) holds on from Denver to Atlantic City. Given the type of summer this has been, you just know the relief from Plains to […]
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