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Beneath the core of the Denver to Charlotte high pressure zone it’s been steamy and for some stormy, but the strongest storms packing severe weather continues to run the northern periphery and these storms is slicing the heat across the Dakotas, Minnesota into the Great Lakes and Northeast. Storms continue to fire along the jet racing across the Northern Tier. […]
Summer heat and humidity has well and truly arrived with many enduring the first mid and upper 90s Saturday from Omaha to Atlanta up to DC! Highs from the Central and Eastern US yesterday. More heat, humidity and storms today with severe weather riding the jet across the N Tier. Cool remains over New England, Northeast while […]
It’s been a dry spring for the interior Southeast and Northeast and with evaporation rates high at this time of year, drought conditions can quickly worsen. With dry ground, strong incoming solar energy goes into heating but wet ground, evaporation hence why Texas is finding it hard to get to normal or above. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] 4-8 […]
With the strongest upper ridge continuing to build over the Central US and troughs either side, we have a significant temperature contrast in the Northwest and Northeast with autumnal air of 50s and 60s, dew points 20s and 30s while we’re talking full blown summer heat of 90s, even 100s and heat indexes of 100-110. This temperature […]
In this morning’s video I showed how the heat crosses the Rockies into the Plains presenting the first widespread upper 90s and low 100s from Minot to Wichita. Further south the wet ground sure does take the sting out of the heat for Texas. With a trough pushing into the West this weekend on into next […]
Several things going on at the moment, 1) Colin is leaving the playing field, 2) record heat continues Out West but will moves east in coming days 3) in response to the strong western ridge we have unusually chilly June air moving through the Great Lakes and will eventually make it’s presence felt over the Northeast, 4) the […]
A quick update on Tropical Storm Colin. He’s stronger but looking windswept with shear displacing convection to the east. Water temps appear warm enough to maintain a moderate to strong TS as it comes ashore within the Florida Bight but shear may hold back further intensification. GFDL sees strongest winds on south side with little […]
A brief post this evening as I’m about to hit the road for Scotland’s far north to climb another two munros. I’ve not got much to add from before. Texas continues to get hammered but there’s drying on the way thankfully. Scene from Galveston, TX. Heat is on big time Out West with Phoenix likely […]
Lots going on this weekend with floods continuing to hit Texas hard. Out West and we’ve got the first heatwave of 2016 set to send temps to record levels from Phoenix to LA up to Seattle. The Texas system should exit eastward late weekend but the combination of this system and one sweeping east through the Lakes, […]
We know there’s been a ton of rain over the Southern Plains, primarily Texas in the past 30 days but how much? 800% of normal! Notice the above normal precip over the N Plains and Wisconsin but considerably drier from Alabama, Georgia up the spine of the Appalachians. The Southwest and Northwest has been driest and […]
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