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While 109 degrees was hot in McCook, Neb yesterday, Death Valley, CA topped out at 121 degrees making this both the hottest high of the season for the site as well as for the nation. Denver topped out at 100 degrees, the hottest June 18th on record. Amazingly, while 100s blistered the Plains from Texas […]
Guchol, once a 150-mph super typhoon, made landfall today on the Kii Peninsula south of Osaka as a 65 mph tropical storm. Though significantly weakened due to cooler waters, dry air and increased wind shear, Guchol still packed quite a punch delivering strong, gusty winds throughout Japan. Winds excellerating as the air became squeezed through the narrow concrete […]
You may have noticed the increasingly active area of weather simmering over the Caribbean Sea these days. This area of disturbed weather has lingered and grown in coverage over recent days and it’s stuff like this with a large envelop of energy which must be watched when you see pressures fall and you have a favourable […]
The upcoming work week will be dominated by headline grabbing heat and humidity as temps soar into the 110s in Phoenix, 105-110 in Vegas and even the Red Bluff, Redding areas of the northern Sac Valley. Temps will soar into the upper 90s in both Salt Lake and Denver today while we likely see the first of several 120s in Death Valley.There […]
The drought in the UK is over while even France and down into Spain, drought conditions have eased considerably. In my summer forecast issued back on the 31 March I stated there would be two scenarios which would determine the type of summer season we would likely have here in the UK. One being that […]
The ECMWF has plenty of summer heat across much of the country through next week with a return to 90s for the Mid-Atlantic by Monday. While the strong and expansive west-east ridge keeps things warm, the model also shows a continuation of the rather active Pacific track storm with more strong low dropping out of the Gulf […]
A storm system working east along the International border has a cold front draped south over the Plains and as usual this is triggering thunderstorms which if they haven’t already, will turn severe as they run into increasingly hot and humid air out ahead. These surface temperatures in the map below greatly raise the lapse rate (measure of temperature difference with […]
Yesterday we saw an area of disturbed weather to the west of Central America become a depression and now during the overnight hours, the depression has intensified into Tropical Storm Carlotta. This system is currently supporting 45 mph winds and moving NW at around 9 mph. With conducive conditions of both warm waters and a low sheared atmosphere as well […]
While some glorious weather has invaded the Great Lakes and Midwest from Canada with dry air, low humidity and abundant sunshine, this allows the perfect combination of warm, very comfortable 70-degree days accompanied by cool, crisp nights in the 40s with even frost in the UP of Michigan. As we progress towards the later part of this week, this cool, Canadian […]
An astonishing 25 inches or 2 feet of rain has fallen across southern parts of Taiwan within just 24-hours while 3.5 feet has come down in 3 days, this has of course caused major flooding and sadly death with It’s all caused by a stationary boundary stretching from Southeast China eastwards across southern Taiwan and out into the western Pacific. This […]
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