Seasonal Forecasts
The Desert Southwest gets hot every summer, it’s a desert after all. However, every 3-5 years, exceptional heat pays a visit. When typically strong upper ridges just get that little bit stronger and swell towards 600dm. We saw that last June when all-time records were challenged and for some, broken. The ridge builds over Arizona, California, Nevada and […]
A strong upper ridge over southern England is promoting very warm weather this weekend into early next week. Intensely hot Iberian air shall lift north over France into the UK this weekend with mid-30s for central, even northern France, first low 30s for SE UK. Despite some disturbed weather drifting into western Scotland on the northern flank of the ridge, […]
The Eastern heat peaked yesterday with multiple records melting including an impressive 101 degrees recorded at New York’s LaGuardia Airport while Newark on the other side of the city wasn’t far behind with a record 99 degrees. LaGuardia’s 101 was said to be the 16th warmest day in it’s history. Records date back to 1939. Watch today’s […]
Well I guess you could say the heat is on but probably just south of the border I’m afraid. Today will be a typically ‘warm June day’ in the Southeast and over northern France where highs widely rise into the low and middle 20s, locally 27C on the English side of the channel, widely 27-29 in […]
With a western trough, eastern ridge this past weekend, we’ve seen unusually chilly and even snowy conditions from the Sierra to Wasatch with highs in north-central Nevada only mustering 45 degrees for a high but east of the Rockies and particularly east of the Mississippi and blistering heat was widespread on the other side of the jet. 100s sizzled the high […]
Rain was welcome but not the storm which killed 9 people and destroyed hundreds of shacks. While it’s winter in the southern hemisphere, South Africa and particularly the Cape can expect storm systems but the one which struck mid last week was exceptional. Said to be the worst in 30 years with 2 inches of rain […]
To say the weather has been a little upside down in the Western side of North America lately is probably a bit of an understatement. While parts of Alaska experienced record snow and cold during the first few days of June, recent days has been all about the heat with the first 90s of the year and in fact […]
An unusually deep Atlantic cyclone spinning west, northwest of Ireland is driving the weather across Western Europe with cool, blustery and showery conditions for Glasgow and Belfast, pleasantly warm for London and Paris but intensely hot for Madrid down to Seville. What you can expect through the rest of this week. Glasgow Costa Del Sol Visible satellite view showing the big Atlantic depression […]
Extremely heavy rain has recently fallen over Florida and the Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission core satellite looked at that some of that rainfall on June 7. Rainfall records were broken on that date as the GPM satellite passed overhead from space. On June 7, GPM found rain falling at a rate of over […]
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