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Just as the saying goes, a picture speaks a thousand words and that couldn’t be more true with the Louisiana flood situation. I-10 is unrecognisable! Only rooftops are above the flood waters! [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Dry trend on the way? YES! Cooling trend for the Central US. See today’s video. [/s2If][s2If current_user_cannot(access_s2member_level1)][magicactionbox id=”18716″][/s2If]
The Eastern heat wave and Southern Rainstorm continues but both will weaken into the new working week. Though the air temperature was just as toasty today as the past few from from Richmond to Bangor, dew points were less and therefore heat indexes instead of being 110-115, locally 115-120, it felt more like 100-105. As for the Louisiana flood situation, as […]
What can I say folks, the heat, humidity, heat indexes and rainfall is nothing short of impressive and there is little written requirement as I think the below photos and graphics say it all. Unbearable 4pm air temp/dew point combos. DC tops record 101F with a heat index of 114F. Over 31 inches of rain within 5 days? [s2If […]
The combination of a record warm ocean stronger-than-normal Bermuda high and stalled lows and associated fronts we have heat wave conditions within one of the wettest atmosphere’s you’ll see. An historic day-after-day deluge continues over Louisiana while a hot, steamy, sticky, suffocating blanket covers the Ohio Valley and East Coast raising heat indexes to dangerous levels. A record warm ocean maximises amount of available water within […]
A system pushing through the N Rockies is drawing hot and humid air northward up the Plains while an upper low drives cool, dry Canadian air over top enhancing thunderstorm and severe weather potential later today and tonight for the northeast Plains/Midwest. This system will continue east through the Great Lakes pushing the heat, humidity to the […]
From a seed in the deep equatorial rainforests of Africa, a cluster of waves rode the AEJ into the 80+F waters of the tropical Atlantic. With the combination of warm water and good atmospheric conditions, 96L was born and days later TS Earl was born west of the Lesser Antilles. Over the even warmer waters of the southwest Caribbean Sea, Earl […]
An upper low and stalled frontal boundary over 85-90F water is fuelling an ongoing major flood situation from Tampa to Panama City extending up the Gulf Coast to Mobile and possibly as far as New Orleans. A constant injection of rich tropical moisture flowing over a record warm Gulf of Mexico into the low means some areas could see over 24″ […]
Aside from heat and humidity we have two other significant weather stories currently unfolding, 1) the remnants of Earl may cross Mexico and get out over the warm waters of the east Pacific and reform and 2) a stalled system over the northeast Gulf of Mexico could drop up to 20 inches of rain in NW […]
By Jason Samenow Capital Weather Gang August 4 Hurricanes, large and small, have eluded U.S. shores for record lengths of time. As population and wealth along parts of the U.S. coast have exploded since the last stormy period, experts dread the potential damage and harm once the drought ends. Three historically unprecedented droughts in landfalling U.S. hurricanes […]
Jim Cantore tweeted earlier today on how the Northeast, Southeast drought has worsened slightly in the last week. Thought I would take a look. There’s the 1-week difference. Here’s the reason for such dry conditions currently. The below 90-day precipitation anomaly says it all. July 2016 was one of the driest on record for the Southeast. It’s been warm […]
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