Hyper-arid Atacama Desert recieves heavy snow, Oklahoma City tops 108°, highest temperature in 11 years, UK recieves thundershowers today

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In Today's Blog

#BRITISH ISLES-EUROPE
An improving weather map across the majority of Europe with fewer showers and warmer temperatures across the UK and France, wet boundary shifts east from Germany while it grows hotter across the Mediterrannean Sea

#USA
Northeast, Mid-Atlantic experience a heat-breaker but at the cost of bigtime thunderstorms rolling in from west

Oklahoma City tops hottest temp in 11 years with sweltering 108°, Dallas 102° while out East, Philly, Baltimore and DC reach 95°

A Years Worth of 100s Already
THE WEATHER CHANNEL

Hyper-arid Atacama Desert hit by snow
BBC

China: Heavy rain and floods wreak havoc in Sichuan
BBC

THE EXTREMES OF THE DAY

TODAY'S US EXTREMES

COURTESY OF ACCUWEATHER

HIGH: 111° at Imperial, CA

LOW: 32° at Bodie State Park, CA

TODAY'S UK EXTREMES

COURTESY OF THE MET OFFICE

HIGH: 70° (21°C) at Cambridge Niab (Cambridgeshire)

LOW: 39°(4°C) at Shap (Cumbria)

TODAY'S EXTREMES HERE AT MY HOUSE

HIGH: 66°

LOW: 44°

Thanks for reading.

-Mark