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The heat is well and truly ON over the Midwest and has been since yesterday when Des Moines, IA not only experienced their latest 100 degree day on record but also tied their hottest ever September reading of 101. Today the heat has shifted slightly to the southeast as the jet nudges further south. This will keep Minneapolis […]
Temperatures are soaring from the Plains to Great Lakes this afternoon with 100s over Iowa and lower 90s up into Minneapolis and Chicago. Thank a trough over the Rockies, dry ground southwest winds, sunshine and a ridge. The mid-summer level heat is not only breaking daily but monthly records with Des Moines currently simmering at 101 degrees. […]
The 2nd of 3 lobes of chill drop into southern Quebec and the Northeast tonight dropping temperatures back into the 30s widely across New England by tomorrow morning with frost. We had the first cold start and the coldest start for many since late May back on Friday morning then there’s a near repeat tonight and interestingly […]
This morning marked the coldest start for much of the Northeast as well as eastern Canada since May with widespread 30s and a few 20s including 29 at Saranac Lake, NY and not surprisingly Mt Washington, NH which dipped to at least 27. The wind chill at one point on top of Mt Washington was a bone chilling […]
After looking better and better organised throughout today, Tropical Depression 7 has been declared just south of Puerto Rico and looks set to bring squally weather here as well as to Hispaniola over the next 3-5 days. The system is being closely followed by a larger system on it’s heels and it’s this feature that likely held […]
Good evening and I hope all Americans enjoyed your Labor Day weekend. I’m sure for many or most of you, it’s back to business as usual. I posted just last night about the ‘potential’ implications later down the road to a more conducive tropical Atlantic, a better African wave train and the evolving pattern over North […]
The tropics overall remain quiet and there I no immediate threat from any system out there at this time. We currently have a system bringing heavy downpours, gusty winds to the Yucatan and this feature will drift west into the Bay of Campeche tomorrow. The NHC gives this a low chance of development (20%) and will likely push […]
It sure has been a quiet hurricane season up till now. In fact 2013 now makes it only the sixth year since 1960 in which no hurricanes have formed up till now. Interestingly, each of those years which include 1967, 1984, 1988, 2001 and 2002 all eventually became active with 4-6 hurricanes forming and with the […]
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