United States of America
It’s a tail of two halves or extremes this afternoon across North America. While Sunshine Village, Banff (Alberta) get their first snow of the season, New York City sees their hottest day of the year (92F). A little earlier at Sunshine Village, Banff Now While chilly in the Canadian and northern US Rockies today, it’s feeling more like mid summer […]
It’s been a cool summer and cool year overall for the US, pretty much opposite of the UK and Western Europe. Like with Europe, in today’s post I want to compare my US summer forecast issued back in April with what actually happened. Like with winter 2013-14, I think you’ll agree that it’s been a […]
Following a modest summer up and down the East Coast and cool in the Midsection, the models are showing a warm September and Fall for the very areas which have seen little sustained heat and arguably no summer. Given the large-scale pattern both in the atmosphere and ocean, I agree with the warmer outlook. We saw this flip from cool summer […]
The science and even meteorological community are watching Bárðarbunga very carefully these days as stirrings from deep below the surface of Iceland are occurring. Yet another small earthquake occurred beneath the volcano just this morning but technically, there’s no real eruption. It’s more of a simmer. The question however is, is there one true eruption building? […]
As summer 2014 is about to draw to a close, the upper air pattern is finally shifting! It looks like the Midwest and East will finally see summer, outwith summer! By that I mean we’ll see summer warmth when ‘meteorological summer’ is over. Keep in mind that fall officially begins Sep 1. Like winter, the […]
California is enduring it’s worst drought in a century and of course the blame is quickly reverted to climate change. However, when you look at the big picture. A lot of the blame is not down to a warming planet but in fact a cooling Pacific. Since the PDO turned cold, high pressure has become stronger […]
As we head for August’s end and the traditional ‘heart’ of hurricane season, the pattern is starting to become favourable both over N America as well as in the deep tropics. We’re seeing the classic end of summer/start of fall upper air pattern with heights rising further north which supports increased tropical concerns along the US coastline. […]
We have a new tropical depression (four) just declared by the NHC. A feature which models have been all over for the past 4 to 6 days. This is a complex system with a complex outlook. A system which could take a route westward into the Gulf of Mexico, north and stay off the US East […]
The current 7-day stretch across the Eastern two thirds of the country may well be the hottest of the entire summer from Dallas to Charlotte up to Chicago. For cities such as Indianapolis and Pittsburgh whom have not yet hit 90, we will watch this current heat surge carefully! ECMWF 7-day mean 500mb heights 7-day mean 2M temps/anomalies Yesterday’s highs. […]
While the hottest air of summer builds over the South and eventually north up into the Midwest, the Western monsoon has really meant business over the past 36 hours with major flooding causing havoc across the West and Greater Phoenix area in particular. Impressive 24-hour rain totals [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Here’s the write-up from the NWS of Phoenix. […]
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