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While arctic sea ice extent has been decreasing over the last 15+ years, the Antarctic has been increasing, particularly in recent years. As of Sunday morning, a new all-time record for areal coverage of sea ice surrounding the continent of Antarctica. According to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Cryosphere Today, 2.074 million square kilometres covers and circles […]
A lot of attention is drawn these days to global warming and the earth heating up, bringing greater floods, heat waves and droughts than ‘ever before’, yet the media and governments bypass what’s happening down under where the Antarctic is breaking records for GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE ICE EXTENT while SE Australia get’s smacked by a major […]
The northward migration of the sub-tropical high is well underway. The first of two hot zones is already scorching. Ahead of the rainy/monsoon season, sub-Saharan Africa, parts of the Arabian Peninsula and sub-continental Asia is now in the 104-110F range widely across Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Arabia. It’s yet to get to the unbearable stage over Northwest India and Pakistan but once […]
When looking through the various charts this morning, there was one thing that grabbed my attention. The GFS and to an extent the ECMWF, has snow even in Africa in the coming days. That would be impressive given the averages are way up there by now. It should be getting warm, not cold in the desert […]
What an incredible storm system we’ve seen and are seeing with huge variation of wild weather over North America. From snow in Texas to severe weather across Arkansas and Mississippi to the biggest ice storm in years across Southern Ontario, northern Vermont and New Hampshire, heavy snow and drifting over northern Maine all the way to Newfoundland. To top […]
As advertised here throughout the past week, we’ve seen one of the strongest arctic high’s in some 10 to 20 years drive southeast from Alaska and is now shivering the Midwest and East in temperatures more suited to mid-January with temperatures from northeast Mexico all the way to southeast Canada in the 20-35 below normal […]
Super Typhoon Haiyan is fast approaching the central Philippines as one of the most powerful, if not thee most powerful Tropical Cyclone ever recorded on earth. ‘Official’ sustained wind speeds according to JTWC are now at 195 mph with gusts of 235 mph. Check out this stunning night satellite image of this once in a lifetime storm. The unbelievable […]
Quick post tonight but wanted to quickly show you the jet pattern and it’s current influence over the UK at the moment. As you can see from the below chart, it’s basically splitting the air mass with night lows of -6C in the Highlands while waves of energy riding the under side of the jet is promoting not […]
I thought I would join up both North America and Europe posts today and take a closer look at some aspects regarding the winter forecast and my long term ideas. When it comes to winter and looking at the big global drivers, there is often a strong teleconnection between North America and Western Europe and with the right setup, there can be […]
The overall fall pattern is unfolding as predicted back in August with a largely warm September and start to October with cold end. Also, as expected, the pattern is shifting and November overall is looking milder and wetter for the East while the trough repositions back over the West as the indexes flip. Based on all current […]
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