Seasonal Forecasts
It was a cold Fathers Day over Central Europe. Last 7 days not much better… The water temperature anomaly over the Atlantic and Mediterranean has a lot to say for the type of pattern we’ve had across Europe. Temp anomaly for last 30-days. Things may be about to flip around BIG TIME as we head […]
Scorching weekend for the Deserts of the Southwest and early next week for the Southeast once again. Yesterday topped 111 degrees in Las Vegas which made for the highest reading of the year to date. Phoenix topped out at 113, down 2 from the previous day’s 115! The SW ridge peaks in strength over the […]
Tomorrow is not only Father’s Day but our longest day of the year and no it won’t be a scorcher by any means. In fact it may feel more like autumn across parts of Scotland… For the SOUTHERN half of England and Wales dad’s day is looking decent with some sun and bright spells, temps […]
Phoenix soared to new temperature heights yesterday with a high of 115. RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 0143 AM MST FRI JUN 19 2015 …RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT PHOENIX AZ AND YUMA AZ… A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 115 DEGREES WAS SET AT PHOENIX AZ YESTERDAY. THIS TIES THE OLD RECORD OF 115 […]
Believe it or not but the summer solstice is a mere two days away. I know many will ask, what summer? The good thing is that the warmest period of the year comes AFTER the solstice despite the fact that nights ‘technically’ shorten again. Just like the coldest period of the year follows the winter […]
After a cool, damp spring, the summer ridge is finally firing with major desert towns and cities finally catching up with the calendar and even firing into 10-20 above territory. As upper heights soar to 594dm, Phoenix topped out at a sweltering 114 degrees yesterday tying a record which dates all the way back to 1896. […]
More often than you’d think, when tropical heat gets lifted north into the mid-latitudes, a ripple effect is created and quite often, this signals a large-scale pattern shift. Up till now and really since the beginning of 2015, there’s been a fight between the Azores high and Iceland low. The weather has always been that […]
While the heat is well and truly on over the Southeast, it continues to build over the West too with Bill pushing northward between the twin ridges. While we’re seeing the hottest weather since 2011 over parts of the Southeast coastal plain, the first 110s of the season are now sweating both Phoenix and Vegas. Here were the […]
Up till now, we’ve experienced a very mixed weather pattern with fight between the Azores high and Icelandic low. The cold waters of the Atlantic is most certainly suppressing the atmosphere’s ability to heat the UK lower atmosphere and with a mean ridge position to the SW of Ireland, the flow has been northwesterly. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] […]
Tropical Storm Bill made landfall about 4 hours ago on Matagorda Island around 11.45am CDT with max winds of 60 mph. Here was the visible satellite image at the time of landfall. Despite Bill being inland and well to the south, it’s a downright stormy afternoon at Galveston. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] What a difference 400-800 miles makes either […]
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