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Phoenix soared to new temperature heights yesterday with a high of 115. RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 0143 AM MST FRI JUN 19 2015 …RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT PHOENIX AZ AND YUMA AZ… A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 115 DEGREES WAS SET AT PHOENIX AZ YESTERDAY. THIS TIES THE OLD RECORD OF 115 […]
After a cool, damp spring, the summer ridge is finally firing with major desert towns and cities finally catching up with the calendar and even firing into 10-20 above territory. As upper heights soar to 594dm, Phoenix topped out at a sweltering 114 degrees yesterday tying a record which dates all the way back to 1896. […]
While the heat is well and truly on over the Southeast, it continues to build over the West too with Bill pushing northward between the twin ridges. While we’re seeing the hottest weather since 2011 over parts of the Southeast coastal plain, the first 110s of the season are now sweating both Phoenix and Vegas. Here were the […]
Tropical Storm Bill made landfall about 4 hours ago on Matagorda Island around 11.45am CDT with max winds of 60 mph. Here was the visible satellite image at the time of landfall. Despite Bill being inland and well to the south, it’s a downright stormy afternoon at Galveston. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] What a difference 400-800 miles makes either […]
Since yesterday’s post, NHC has upped the chance of 91L to 80% as it continues to slowly organise over the warm Gulf of Mexico. It’s likely to become Tropical Storm Bill and the seasons 2nd named storm prior to landfall sometime overnight Tuesday into Wednesday. It’s biggest threat remains flash flooding. Not just Texas! [s2If […]
After a record wet May, the Houston NWS office received an impressive 6.71 inches of rain yesterday. That’s the biggest 24-hour rainfall total in over 5 years and there could be even worse to follow as 91L gathers to the south. The MJO pulse is crossing from east Pacific into the Gulf, hence the increase in convection around the […]
As shown in today’s video, the upper pattern is beautifully mirroring the soil moisture content. By that I mean it’s warm where dry and cool and wet where wet. Warmer-than-normal water, dry ground combined with time of year means a strengthening SE or Bermuda ridge and it’s turning increasingly hot underneath. Check out the 7-day QPF, there’s a distinct ‘ring of […]
The pattern is becoming much more summer-like as we head for mid June. The Bermuda high is strong now and in a westward position allowing temps to climb into the 90s from North Florida to New York City. Rainfall in the open of June has been Southeast to Northeast focused but thanks to the strengthening […]
While Blanca tracks NNE across the Midwest over the next few days providing showers and storms over the heartland, this system will act like a heat pump, boosting heights to it’s east and driving the warmest air of the year through the South and East of the country. Upper heights rise to 588dm over the […]
May 2015 will go down as not just the wettest month for the Southern Plains but for the entire Lower 48! From NOAA May was wettest month on record for contiguous US Devastating floods end multiyear drought in Southern Plains The May contiguous U.S. average temperature was 60.8°F, 0.6°F above the 20th century average, near […]
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