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It’s been a scorching open to July 2018. The heat which engulfed the entire Eastern US this past week first impacted the Great Basin and Rockies. Denver reached 105 degrees tying their all-time record. Nearby Colorado Springs hit 100, Cheyenne, WY hit 99. Both cities missed their all-time record by just 1 degree. Along with […]
Dr. Jeff Masters · July 2, 2018, 1:26 PM EDT An unusually concentrated plume of African dust invaded the U.S. over the weekend, bringing dangerously high levels of fine particulate pollution (PM2.5, particles less than 2.5 microns or 0.0001 inch in diameter). The dust from the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) arrived in Texas on Thursday, […]
There’s nothing unusual about thunderstorms and the heavy, sometimes flooding rains that they deliver. However, the thunderstorms which sweep the area stretching between Richmond and Fredericksburg, VA between Thursday and Saturday was anything but typical. The intensity of the rain was about as extreme as it gets for any part of the US late last […]
We have seen probably one of the most dramatic spring temperature flips in a lifetime across the US. From one of the coldest April’s and coldest nationwide since 1997 to warmest May on record and June so far is one of the warmest also. May June so far No major increase in drought area or […]
Article from wunderground.com Bob Henson · June 19, 2018, 12:22 PM EDT Flash flood watches were strewn from northern Montana to the Texas Gulf Coast on Tuesday, the result of unusually rich moisture stranded across the United States beneath lackadaisical upper-level winds. It’s a classic summer setup for generating the kind of slow-moving showers and […]
In recent years, heat has without a doubt been the dominant weather/climate story across Alaska. However, thanks to a cold trough spinning over northern Alaska a spell of unusual cool payed a visit to the Alaskan interior. Fairbanks International Airport recorded a minimum of 36 degrees which ties a record low dating all the way […]
As we progress into June, the models have the core of heat centred right where the worst of the drought is. This is coinciding well with my long terms ideas in which at least the front end of this summer will be hottest from the Four Corners to Texas and points north into the Dakotas. […]
There’s not a lot of text to go with this post as the numbers and graphics say it all. We’ve likely seen one of the greatest flips from winter straight to summer in a LONG time. A year without a spring as Sam Lillo says? Remember April was the coldest nationwide since 1997 and likely […]
This is not a forecast or outlook but more thoughts regarding this year’s Atlantic hurricane season. Today is of course the first day of the season and we’ve already seen Alberto. Not a particularly noteworthy system from a tropical point of view but it helped contribute to the wettest May on record for parts of […]
Below article from weather.com By Chris Dolce May 31 2018 12:51 PM EDT weather.com Story Highlights Colorado State University expects 13 more named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes, a slight reduction from its initial forecast. This is near the 30-year average for the number of hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic Basin. […]
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