Asia
Beijing, China ended April on a blistering, record breaking note. It’s now starting May with a choking dust storm which has caused pollution levels to go through the roof, forcing many millions to seek shelter indoors. Visible satellite imagery shows the cloud of dust blown in over the city and northern China in the wake of […]
April came to a close in record breaking fashion over northeast China feeling more like late July rather than late April. Hot SW winds pushed thermometers in Beijing to the highest levels since 1993 with a high of 32C. The following day saw the thermometer reach a new April benchmark with a high of 33.5C (92.3F), surpassing the previous […]
A powerful upper ridge of high pressure has tormented the Asian Sub-continent since late March and throughout April with many inland areas exceeding 38C or 100F day after day. The persistency is probably the biggest contributor to the deaths hundreds of deaths across India and Pakistan. No relief in sight with May often the hottest time of year with […]
The Middle East’s mountainous north typically endures one or two cold waves accompanied by heavy snow and subfreezing nights each winter. High elevations of Iran, Northern Iraq and even Syria see snow each winter. However, winter 2016-17 has seen Siberian origin cold dig further south than normal. You associate Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman with blistering summer heat, […]
Since Christmas we’ve seen 2 powerful cyclones near the Black Sea which have drawn and connected rich, moist air up from warmer southern climes with arctic air resulting in major snowfall. High elevation communities stretching from northern Greece through Turkey into Iran have been hit hard. The Greek capital, Athens woke to a Christmas card-like scene yesterday morning. Northern sections of Tehran province […]
Extreme cold has been gradually drifting westward across Siberia in recent weeks with the thermometer dipping well into the -50s east, northeast of the Ural Mountains. Unfortunately the Middle East has been subject to a draft sweeping down from the north and this has only exasperated the vast human suffering already in place here. Northern sections of Syria and Iraq has seen heavy […]
When looking back through my tweets and retweets, I’ve come to realise how much extreme and exciting weather is happening now or yesterday but never reach markvoganweather.com. So, every Saturday I intend to share my favourite tweets/retweets from the past week. You can follow me on twitter @MarkVogan #eustorm @EUStormMap 24h EUSM’s @Kirilldatsyuk reports Big […]
By Jonathan Belles Published Nov 23 2016 09:37 PM EST weather.com Story Highlights Tokyo, Japan, received its first snowfall on Thursday. A November snow in Tokyo is extremely rare, happening most recently 54 years ago. Snow flurries precipitated from colder-than-average skies on Thursday in Tokyo, Japan. This is the first November snow that the city […]
A bizarre chain of ocean-atmospheric events has led to a setup you never see in November. Record low arctic sea ice has led to a weak polar vortex which in turn has held a strongly negative arctic oscillation. That then has supported persistent high latitude blocking which makes for an unusually warm arctic and unusually […]
It was only a matter of time before the Siberian surface high exploded towards 1060mb following the incredible snow growth of the past 4 weeks. The GFS next week builds the high to at least 1056, generating a widespread 10-20 CELCIUS below normal across southern Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. 24-26C below normal is pretty incredible! […]
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