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In this post I shall take a look at the El Nino, it’s role and importance of strength and position over the equatorial Pacific. The role of sea surface temperatures over the North Atlantic and the overall Pacific and Atlantic’s influence on the atmosphere, the behavior of the current winter season down in the southern hemisphere and […]
Beneath a stronger than normal upper level ridge of high pressure over Northwest Africa, a temperature of 121.3°F was recorded yesterday afternoon in Marrakech, Morocco, this reading surpasses the old 120.4°F (49.1°C) national high set at Agadir on July 30, 2009. Hot temperatures in mid-July are of course a given throughout Saharan Africa and the Middle […]
Millions across the world will increasingly be turning to weather forecasts for London as we enter the later part of July. We all know just how wet it’s been but with signs of warmer air building over the upcoming weekend and into early next week, can this provide us with a level of optimism that our weather may in fact […]
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 […]
The western states are well and truely in the midst of the first big heatwave of 2012 thanks to an intensifying upper level ridge of high pressure currently centred over the Four Corners and extends all the way up into Canada. Death Valley peaked at 123° yesterday, setting a new yearly high for the site and US. Today may get close to […]
[error] THERE IS HIGH RISK OVER THE NEXT 48 HOURS FOR SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL FROM CENTRAL FRANCE TO EASTERN SCANDINAVIA WITH TORNADIC STORMS POSSIBLE OVER BALTICS [/error] Now that the low is pushing into southern Scandinavia and the front is drapped from southern France all the way to the Baltics states, expect big rains which will cause flooding, […]
Well the focus of heavy and persistent rains over the last 48 hours has been across the Southwest of England where we’ve seen rivers burst their banks in parts of Devon. Tonight will see the Southeast under the gun of heaviest rains as the low begins to migrate east. During tomorrow we see those rains persist […]
The two maps, above and below, courtesy of Dr Ryan Maue (Policlimate.com) show you the temperature anomalies for the next 8 days across Europe with the GFS above and NCEP below. What you’ll notice is that both show blue across the west indicating below normal temperatures while there is varying levels of warmth in the east […]

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