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An anomalous bowling ball low shall sweep right across Southern California this weekend, wiping out the season’s first widespread low desert 100s. Thursday hosted 105 to 107s in the Coachella Valley of CA. As for today, Phoenix hit a record 107 degrees this afternoon. Las Vegas recorded their earliest 100 today since 2004. Upper anomaly Sunday […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from May 2007 Tornado Outbreak) Jump to: navigation, search Tornado outbreak of May 4–6, 2007 Satellite perspective of the tornadic supercells over the Great Plains on the evening of May 5 Type Extratropical cyclone Tornado outbreak Duration May 4–6, 2007 Tornadoes confirmed 129 confirmed Max rating1 EF5 tornado Duration […]
What a final weekend of April for the US! A massive end of April storm brought record warmth, record flooding, severe weather with big and devastating tornadoes as well as heavy snow, strong wind and even blizzard conditions. Here was the storm from space, loomed out! Well ahead of the storm but in a strong SSW […]
This seasonal forecast for the upcoming June-August 2017 period is based on past, present and forecasted atmospheric, oceanic and ground conditions. There are 3 main aspects I have looked at when compiling this forecast. 1) Past winter and current spring rainfall distribution. 2) sea surface temperature anomalies, particularly in the Pacific and Atlantic. 3) Current and forecasted ENSO (El Nino […]
What a difference a year or even a few months can make. Since 2011, drought has become a hot topic across the Lower 48 with many millions affected. In 2012, many climatologists claimed that California and Texas in particular had started a permadrought. Between 2012 and 2015, the overall US drought area peaked. The highest percentage since 2000 […]
A major spring storm system covering a large swathe of the Lower 48 will make it’s presence felt pretty much coast to coast this weekend. The Plains storm is one thing but the strong mid Atlantic ridge and clockwise flow is driving air from east of the Lesser Antilles, through the Caribbean, Gulf and eventually reaching connecting with the […]
We have all the ingredients coming together late this week for a truly wild end to April. A storm system will fire on all cylinders with major cold driving south out of Canada into the rear while out ahead, the first real surge of heat (upper 80s/low 90s) lifts up the Eastern coastal plain. Looks like […]
Without sounding like a broken record, the large scale US pattern remains largely unchanged but expect a gradual shut down of the Pacific as heights naturally begin building over the Great Basin. It’s been a warm April except for the Northwest, sound familiar to the previous 2-3 months? April shall go out on a stormy and pretty wild note […]
According to NASA, the snowpack this year in the Tuolumne River Basin which is park of Yosemite National Park is deeper than the previous 4 seasons combined. How much water is locked within the snowpack? For some spots it’s over 100 inches. Statewide the average is 47 inches. The Sierra snowpack is near record levels and […]
A bane to shipping and a little earlier than normal but since late March over 600 huge icebergs have neared Newfoundland’s north and eastern shores. The last 3 weeks has nearly seen as many icebergs than in all of 2016. The vast majority of icebergs around the Grand Banks is calved off the Greenland ice sheet and drift south with wind and current […]
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