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The heat has been relentless and outstanding across the Southern Plains but in the past 5 days it’s Oklahoma which have been centrepoint with Oklahoma City yesterday seeing day 16 at or above 100°, day 3 of 110°+ and an unprecidented day 2 of 112°+ and to top it all, they tied their all-time record high of 113°, set back […]
The warm, juicy atmosphere over the Northeast combined with a frontal boundary has allowed strong thunderstorm to blowup and cross the Greater New York City area. During the early afternoon today, heavy storms dropped a rapid 2 inch plus rain which caused significant flooding over Queens and other parts of Long Island. There are also […]
Each of the next at least 5 days will see temperatures from Wichita Falls, Texas to Wichita, Kansas top 110° thanks to a very powerful upper level ridge which has been intensifying in recent days but has really brutalised the Plains all summer long. The stronger the upper ridge, the greater the depth of sinking […]
With the big dome of high pressure parked directly over the Southern Plains states, there’s a pinwheel of deep, tropical moisture cycling around the ridge and up into the Southwest. As the strong late July sun does it’s work and strongly heats the lower atmosphere over the Deserts and Great Basin and with all the moisture streaming […]
If you thought today was hot with widespread 105° to 110° heat, it looks like things are about to grow even hotter from central Texas to north Kansas in coming days as the upper ridge intensifies overhead. Such cities as Wichita Falls, TX, Oklahoma City, OK and Wichita, KS to name just 3, may surpass […]
The summer of 2012 from Denver to St Louis and really to Washington DC will be remembered for a long time as one long , brutal, hot, dry and dusty summer. Folks throughout the heart of the Plains, Front Range of the Rockies and Midwest have had no rest this year and over the next […]
The above image was captured on live TV in New York City yesterday during the height of the wild storms as they pushed through the city. It was an impressive day for severe storms with a copious amount of wind damage reports and there was some tremendous lightning displays. In the below chart, notice there […]
The past 6 months have been record warmest for a large swath of the Lower 48 and with drought becoming more and more firmly established over the past couple of months, so the heat has intensified directly over the heart of the nation where the drought is worst. The cornbelt is suffering, just like it did in […]
Throughout this morning there have been plenty of strong, even severe thunderstorms roaming eastwards from the Dakotas into the Great Lakes around the hot dome centering 100-degree heat to the south. While the heat has been relentless all summer across the heartland, so the lows sliding over top along the US-Canada border have acted like triggers […]
Well I think we can all pretty much agree on where August is going when it comes to the average Plains temps! The intense heat focused right over the heart of the tinderbox ain’t going nowhere during August, in fact we may even see it equally as hot during this final meteorological month of summer 2012 as what […]
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