North and South America
Temperatures skyrocketed to near 110° yesterday in central South Dakota and today won’t be any cooler, Minneapolis looks like they’ll be within reach of the century mark while Chicago’s upper 90s of today may hit 100° tomorrow. The heat core is sliding east and tomorrow should see 100 once again in Washington and Baltimore, possibly 98°-100° in […]
[error] NEAR 100 HEAT RETURNS TO MINNEAPOLIS, MADISON, CHICAGO, CINCINNATI & WASHINGTON DC MONDAY & TUESDAY [/error] A west and east coast trough supports a central US ridge and 100s throughout the Plains today with low to mid-90s extending east across the Midwest. Today’s 100s over the Plains leave days 2-3 and heads for the Midwest, Ohio Valley towards the Mid-Atlantic with a peak on Tuesday. Minneapolis eyes 100 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After another day of 100s over the Mid-Atlantic on Sunday and 90s up to NYC, the main front is now spreading storms through Baltimore and DC as of this writing. The heat is well and truely broken and so 80s dominate the next 7 days throughout the Midwest, Ohio Valley Northeast and Mid-Atlantic and cooler […]
We’re now beginning to see the effects of this cold front now sweeping a line of severe thunderstorms down across northern Pennsylvania. These will eventually make a run at the Big Cities. New York is the first to see a significant temperature trim at Central Park, now down to 88 after being up at 97. Newark to the […]
The heat is very much ON throughout the Lower Midwest through the Ohio Valley and into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. For folks in Chicago, the heat wave is OVER as the front is CURRENTLY pushing through the city and dropping the temperature sharply. I do believe it did strike 100° at O’Hare just before that front […]
The temperature soared to a blistering 102° at O’Hare, Midway and Northerly Island yesterday and according to Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling of WGN-TV, this marked only the second time in 142 years where a reading of 100+ has been recorded on Independence Day. Yesterday’s high tied the record for hottest July 4th, last reached over a century ago. The […]
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