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As pointed out in the summer forecast issued back on April 1, strong El Nino summers often turn drier and warmer in Texas during August and September and sure enough it’s turning drier and at this time of year that means only one thing, warmer! I recall my first ever trip to the US and it […]
First and foremost, the system that was a mega rain producer for west-central Florida through the weekend and a possible contender of becoming a depression yesterday is now dwindling as it heads out to sea. Visible satellite is very unimpressive this morning. It was fun and games through the Mid-Atlantic and coastal Northeast yesterday as […]
The very system which has dropped 10-30 inches of rain around the Tampa Bay area in the last 3-5 days is now showing signs of life as it skirts the Carolina coast. The visible and infrared satellite view this evening suggests the warm coastal waters and a reduction in mid and high level wind shear is having influence, […]
I’m on BBC Radio 4’s ‘What’s The Point Of? tomorrow @ 9am or 9.30pm. Tune in! FM: 92.5–96.1 or online http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06418l5 The Met Office What’s the Point of…?, Series 7 Episode 1 of 4 Quentin Letts begins a new series casting a critical but amicable eye across institutions at the heart of British life, asking the question […]
You don’t need a hurricane, tropical storm or even depression to cause major flooding issues in a flat location. Just an old and dying frontal boundary which gets stuck over 85-degree waters. While shear has exhausted any organisation potential, a large mass of deep convection stuck over Florida for days now has resulted in persistent tropical rains. The flood situation in and around the Tampa Bay […]
It’s been a July of contrasts over the Western United States (particularly compared to NORMAL) with record hot and dryness for the Pacific Northwest, cool and wet over the Southwest. The heat has been intensifying in response to worsening drought up in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle, WA has just recorded an all-time record 11 days at or above 90F this […]
With a surge of monsoonal moisture streams northward into the Southwest from Mexico, the flash flood threat is ongoing. We saw some significant flooding due to thunderstorms yesterday with even the closure of I-15 linking LA with Vegas. Great shot of a strong thunderstorm towering above Twentynine Palms, CA yesterday afternoon. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Ongoing […]
An unusually potent summer low is making for a weather map more suited to fall in the Northern Rockies where heavy snow has been falling in the mountains, records winds have blew at lower elevations and temperatures are running 10-25 below normal. That same system is acting like a wheel, drawing arctic air south on […]
While temps soar to the highest values of summer in the East, we’re talking record cold, wind and even snow in the Northern Rockies. It’s been a cooler, wetter than normal summer for the Northeast following a record cold winter but this week it’s all about the heat and humidity. Yesterday’s highs and lows. Temps […]
This summer will be known as a highly transient one and because the heat and humidity comes and goes as quick as it has been and will be this week, I think 2015 for many will be quickly put to the back of minds once into the fall season. Short lived ‘hot spells’ are never […]
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