Summer 2015
As we head into the heart of July and indeed this summer season I can see some changes taking place. A cooler, wetter pattern beginning to show in the Southeast where it got pretty hot and dry last month. The big ridge up in the Pacific Northwest and even Southwest for that matter looks to be […]
Based on model output and consistency at driving a 594dm+ upper ridge into Europe, I quickly drew the conclusion back last weekend that countries in Europe may be dealing with some of the hottest weather in recorded history. That indeed came true and records have been tumbling from France up into the UK, across the Low Countries […]
With the increasingly huge influence of the El Nino but continued warm pool in the GOA, there is a great deal of unknowns regarding the upcoming winter season over the United States. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] The exact SSTA profile over the Pacific will be key just like it’s been for the last 2 straight years keeping […]
The heat core continues to slow move away from western into central Europe with the worst of the oven-like conditions taking aim at the eastern Low Countries and particularly Germany where temps approached 40C. Here was yesterday morning’s lows. While it must have been near record warm over Belgium with minimums widely between 22-24C, it was […]
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 […]
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