Seasonal Forecasts
A Happy Independence Day to everyone across the pond… Here’s how’s today is looking across the nation from the Weather Nation perspective. Surface map Temperature map Taking a look back at June and the first of three summer months and it had it’s fair share of extremes from record hottest in parts of the West while […]
It’s been a rather fascinating weather pattern in recent weeks. Remember back to the start of June when it was unseasonably cool, wet and windy with winds feeling more like March. We also experienced rare frosts in places with days were the jacket was needed. We ended the very same month complete opposite. Highs 5-10C above, not below […]
Today’s the last of the truly widespread warm days for the UK as the next cluster of thunderstorms spreading northwards from France tonight marks the start of the true breakdown. By the middle to later half of next week, a trough, not ridge should dominate much of Europe with the exceptions of the south. The […]
The MJO is at record levels, likely in response to the strengthening El Nino. With a strong phase 6 into 7 episode, the western Pacific basin is lighting up with tropical activity once again as expected putting Japan and adjacent coastal nations on the watch while the Atlantic is under a record strong and persistent high pressure zone, hence […]
After Madrid, Spain recorded it’s highest June temperature on record, the historically hot air plume continued it’s journey northward and two days after breaking long-standing records in Spain, it broke records over France and the UK too. Yesterday was no ordinary ‘hot day’. This is a map worth saving for your archives. Highs over particularly […]
Well Madrid (Gatafe Airport) managed to top out at 40.0C (104F) Monday afternoon making for the hottest June day in history. While very warm with 30C in London yesterday, it’s already well past that as of 10am. Heathrow is reporting a rather impressive 32.5C already and the July record set in 2006 of 36.5C may be under threat this […]
Over the weekend, temperatures climbed to new heights for June across eastern Washington with even one contender for a new state June record. Walla Walla hit 113 degrees Sunday which if verified, would set a new state record for June in Washington. A high of 104 in Spokane was the warmest here since all the way back to Aug 1961. […]
THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED THROUGHOUT TODAY The heat and humidity builds throughout the UK today and you’ll have noticed the increasingly muggy feel as the rise in water vapour adds to the uncomfortable feel of the air. It’s not the temperature but humidity that makes it unpleasant and even hard to breathe if bad enough. […]
Well it’s looking like a great week of weather for tennis and Wimbledon’s opening week with heat building into the upper 20s/low 30s as early as tomorrow. No change to the temperature forecast I’ve had for several days now. I fully agree with the numbers the BBC have for the Mon-Thu period. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] The […]
A high of 124 degrees was reached at Death Valley, CA Saturday which made for the hottest of the year for the United States. Meanwhile, blistering triple digits weren’t solely confined to the deserts of the Southwest but extended all the way to eastern Washington where temps reached an impressive 111 degrees at Pasco, an all-time June record […]
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