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The blowtorch is well and truly on this weekend from Southern California to Southeast Texas as that well monitored ridge really intensifies across the region while a major trough drops down over the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. The below 500mb chart off the ECMWF has been one I’ve showed you a lot throughout this week but I […]
By late June standards in Las Vegas, low 90s for a high could be considered cool but folks well know that this refreshing air ain’t going to last much longer. An unusually deep Western trough is allowing rare June ‘system’ rainfall into central California while temperatures are a good 3-6 degrees BELOW normal. While it’s cool […]
As we approach July, one must start watching the tropical Atlantic as the MJO index looks set to enter increasingly more favourable octants. While the GFS is going through phase 1, the ECMWF clearly shows it entering phase 2 and that’s prime time for western Atlantic development over the next couple of weeks. Quite often when the […]
All week long I having been keeping an eye on the ECWMF and the major ridge it’s continuously shown build over the Western United States from mid to late next week. The only change I see is that it’s strengthening further with each run. While heights really go to town from the Southwest to eventually Montana up into Canada with a sprawling 596dc high centred […]
Quick look at the ECMWF upper pattern for the next 10 days and you know it’s about to get warm and humid again over the Northeast while a spell of very hot air spreads northeast into the Lower Midwest this weekend with a potential ‘peaking’ of the heat Sunday or Monday with potential mid-90s for Minneapolis […]
The ECMWF continues to show a deepening trough over the West Coast this weekend which forces the heat east. Although it’s always looked hot over the Plains from this weekend into early and mid next week, the newer runs show particularly strong heights and some of the warmest 850mb temperatures yet and so we may well be looking at some […]
Temperatures Monday soared to an incredible 96 degrees just 75 miles north of Anchorage which not only was warmer than any town in Florida that afternoon (according to weather.com) but it was also a mere 4 degrees shy of the all-time STATE record. While it’s hot but turning cooler through the later half of this […]
Heat wave conditions are currently baking Alaska and the upper level ridge responsible continues to strengthen, meaning the past weekend’s record, even new all-time monthly records could be beaten today. Yesterday saw the temperature soar to 91 degrees at Talkeetna which is a tie for the hottest reading ever recorded here, McGrath reached 90 while Fairbanks soared to 88, 2 shy of the […]
It’s long been known than an increase in high latitude volcanic activity has been linked to an increase in winter blocking and colder winters in the mid-latitude world. We saw an increase in volcanic activity prior to the bitter cold winter of 2009-10 which shivered much of the Northern world including the United States and Great Britain. We are currently and have for […]
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