North and South America
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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…
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 […]
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 […]
While the cauldron of heat continues it’s relentless grip over the Midwest today, thunderstorms are firing along the jet stream which flows across the Great Lakes down towards the Mid-Atlantic. Strong, multicluster thunderstorms are currently pushing southeast through New York state and eastern Pennsylvania into New Jersey where a serious cluster of slow moving storms is causing […]
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 […]
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