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Published: Aug 25 2016 12:30 PM EDT By Jonathan Belles weather.com Story Highlights The Gulf of Mexico has not had a single hurricane enter or develop in its waters since September 2013. This streak has eclipsed the longest drought on record, dating to 1886. No hurricanes have entered or developed in the Gulf of Mexico […]
With the trough centred over Montana we have twin ridges and record heat on both coasts while there’s snow falling in between. With the highly amplified Rockies trough/Mid Atlantic ridge we have 20 below normal and winter vs 20 above normal and mid summer. Yep snow is covering the higher elevations of Colorado today… Record highs along the Pacific […]
It remains hot, sticky and steamy throughout the Eastern US as summer 2016 draws to a close. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] The last 30 days appears to be warmest on record for many or most recording stations from eastern Massachusetts to South Carolina. For the entire 90 days of summer from June 1 through August 31, […]
It’s a busy tropical Atlantic and it looks set to stay that way for some time. The current infrared image below shows Fiona, 99L and Gaston but we also have a blow up of thunderstorms around the outer periphery of a high over the Southeast US. This is the feature that’s keeping 99L on a […]
Latest on Tropical Storm Gaston and 99L this morning. Visible satellite animation as the sun comes up. Gaston 99L General model consensus with 99L remains with a US threat as high pressure builds from US out into the Atlantic sealing off the northern escape route. We expect to see significant, potentially flooding rainfall across Puerto Rico. […]
Published: Aug 23 2016 01:45 PM EDT weather.com Story Highlights A tropical disturbance near the Lesser Antilles may become a tropical depression or storm. This system will bring locally heavy rain to the northeast Caribbean Islands on Wednesday. This may pose a threat to the Bahamas and Southeast U.S. coast late this week into the […]
For the Great Lakes, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, August 2016 and I suppose the summer of 2016 overall will stand out as warm and very humid. A lot of this can be attributed to drought, a strong Bermuda high and unusually warm waters helping drive rainforest level humidity all the way to New England. Two other areas which stand out as very warm this […]
So, we have a strong upper ridge centred over the interior Pacific NW providing record warmth all the way to the WA-OR coast while a trough is deepening southward over the N Rockies/Plains. A strengthening storm marking the separation will track NE through the Great Lakes with warm, humid, juicy air ahead, cool and dry […]
While we’re talking fall-like temps in the 50s and 60s over the Northern Plains, we’re talking record 90s and 100s for the Pacific Northwest. The extremity of the ridge and 10-15 above normal is contributing to the 10-20 below normal east of the Rockies. Severe Weather Returns to the Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes Through Saturday […]
There’s been little talk of cool in recent weeks but the trough set to drop over the Plains and slide east will bring the greatest negative anomalies in weeks with record lows possible. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] This is brief I know but I’ll have more for you tomorrow. See today’s video. [/s2If][s2If current_user_cannot(access_s2member_level1)][magicactionbox id=”18716″][/s2If]
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