Summer 2017
Before touching on today, I just want to throw up the maximum temperatures across the UK from yesterday and check out the contrast between Scarborough and London… As forecast. It’s even warmer and more humid in the South this afternoon. Thanks to low pressure drifting over Kent from the Bay of Biscay, it’s also a stormy July afternoon/evening. A fairly warm air […]
By Jason Samenow June 29 (This post, originally posted on June 29, was updated on July 3.) A city in southwest Iran posted the country’s hottest temperature ever recorded Thursday afternoon, and came very close to the world record for the most extreme high temperature. Etienne Kapikian, a forecaster at French meteorological agency MeteoFrance, posted to Twitter […]
94L is just the latest system showing signs of organisation on departure of the African coast. Unusually warm waters combined with an unusually hot Sahara are likely behind the Cabo Verde seasons early start. No surprise in the recent early activity when the waters of the MDR (main development region) where warmest on record for the month of […]
Given the intensity of the Southwest heat wave, it should be of no surprise that some southwestern cities recorded their hottest June in recorded history. Meanwhile on the other side of the country, a persistent plume of rich Caribbean moisture directed straight at Florida essentially wiped out Florida’s drought. June’s heavy rains wash away Florida’s […]
It’s a raw and dreary Tuesday under the rain clouds draped across N Ireland, southern Scotland and northern England but north of the front while bright, it’s fresh but to the south increasingly warm and humid. The rain band split across the UK is marks the divide between fresh Atlantic air and warm, humid continental air. While conditions improve Wednesday with much […]
In the past 10 days, Europe has seen extremes on both ends of the thermometer. The heat wave commenced in the western end of the continent last month and is ending on the eastern end. July starts off the scale cool for parts of Algeria, Spain and France while it’s opposite for Greece and Turkey. […]
30 June 2017 Early statistics show June 2017 has been amongst the wettest on record, despite the hot and dry spell of weather that many saw in the middle of the month. Scotland has provisionally experienced its equal-wettest June on record (shared with 1938) with 156mm of rainfall, 75% above its average for the month. […]
An estimated 44 million Americans are taking to the roads today and through the holiday weekend and weather is likely to play a big factor. Northeast severe threat tomorrow (Saturday) Watch this morning’s video.
June 2017 may go down as one of the warmest from Iberia to UK but it’s ending downright chilly across most of Iberia. Month so far. Blame an unusually far south dip in the jet stream which is driving fresh Atlantic air to sweep Iberia but the jet lifts way up into NE Europe, driving Sahara intensity heat […]
The cool, crisp and even frosty conditions witnessed on the Plains and Midwest a few days ago was centred over the Northeast into the central Appalachians yesterday. Not everyday do you start off a day at the end of June in the mid to upper 30s even in the mountains. The cool start gave way to a […]
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