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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 […]
Typhoon Vicente rapidly intensified over the warm waters of the South China Sea before striking the Chinese coast near Hong Kong at an intensity equivalent to a category 3-4 hurricane. It brought 83 mph winds to Hong Kong… More on this later!
There’s no question, the Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season has been noneexistant after it’s rapid start and here’s a lot of the reason why! This dry air has been carried across the tropical Atlantic by much stronger than normal easterlies, has surpressed convection and moist air and any waves which emerged from off Africa, quickly became […]
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 […]
Hot weather will dominate the upcoming workweek with the focus centred over the Plains. Through this week the 100s will spread west over the Great Basin allowing Denver to see yet more 100s as well as Salt Lake City, Reno and Boise as the week progresses. By late week, the ECMWF shows heights really […]
Following chilly afternoons up in New York City where rain, cloud and Atlantic breezes held temperatures in the low 60s a couple of days ago, yesterday it was the Baltimore-Washington area which got in on some impressive late July chill. What’s striking is how warm this month has been across the region with 13 days over 95 […]
With dominant high pressure continuing over the heart of Australia, so the chill continues also. Alice Springs in the red centre has witnessed their coldest spell of weather in 15 years but a low of -0.8C or lower on Monday morning would bag the coldest spell for the city in 35 years. According to The Weather Channel […]
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