26 April, 2010

Today's Top Weather Stories
On Weather & Climate Through the Eyes of Mark Vogan

DANGEROUS WEATHER ALERT ISSUED FOR FLORIDA TODAY!!
(See Today's Weather across America)

Breaking Weather News
Very Stormy Day for central and South Florida (M.V)
CBS 4 Storm Team Coverage Here The place to go for local, up-to-date weather for the South Florida area including blogs, video forecasts and much more!

Also check out the Orlando Sentinel Weather Here

scotland/england, europe
Scotland leaves Mediterranean in the shade with warm weather
Sunday Mail/Daily Record Here

(from 24th April 10) April showers fail to materialise as Britain prepares for warmest weekend of 2010
Traditional April showers have failed to materialise this month with only a third of the usual amount of rain falling across the country.
Daily Telegraph Here

Photo courtesy of the Daily Telegraph

india, asia
Record Wheat Crop Expected in India, Despite Record Warmth
AccuWeather Here

SPECIAL STORY BY MARK VOGAN
Whilst Scotland prepares for more unsettled weather, England should warm into the low 70s (low 20sC)

Whilst high pressure once again sits and progresses east across Britain over the next couple of days, Scotland will see a band of rain push south from the Highlands (likely heavy at times and persistent, tomorrow) and this cloud, breezy, damp weather should hold highs only to the mid-50s (12-14C). However the high pressure will be felt more south of the border where skies though cloudy with showers today, should be clearer tomorrow and a nice warming trend should allow temps tomorrow to top the 70 degree mark (21C) for the second time this year and by Wednesday perhaps warm beyond that figure towards the 74 to 75 degrees (23-24C) . Mentions of drier than normal conditions down around central and southern portions of England are showing my forecast to have merit and this drier than normal April could help with warmer than normal weather now and more so, 4-8 weeks down the road if this dry weather continues..... I don't think it will be long until England tops the 80-degree mark or 27C though up here in Scotland, we may remain more unsettled but STILL remain slightly subpar when it comes to normal rain... Seasonal northward migration of the jet stream is still progressing and will for another few weeks, therefore pretty much all of Britain will see periods of warmth in between unsettled spells, those warm spells will increase across the South first and finally further north as we progress from early to mid-May as the jet pushes north of Scotland and high pressure holds a firmer hand on our airspace in the weeks to come.

Today's Weather across America
From AccuWeather

DANGEROUS WEATHER ALERT!
Dangerous Thunderstorms Rip Through South Florida
AccuWeather Here (Video included)

More Mountain Snow for the Northeast at Midweek
AccuWeather Here

New Mississippi Valley Severe Weather Threat this Week
AccuWeather Here

New Western Storm on the Way
AccuWeatherHere

Thunderstorms with Hail in Mid-Atlantic Monday
AccuWeather Here

Weather Talk
By Mark Vogan

First 100-degree high of 2010!

Just prior to a major trough dropping into the West bringing yet more unsettled weather and cool temps, unwelcome I'm sure to those folks of the Desert Southwest and along to the California beach areas where their hungry for some heat and sun, we see enough warming take place to finally make it to 100 at one of the prime spots for such an occurrance, Death Valley. This 100-degree reading is long overdue and it appears as though with a cooldown looming as a major trough swings south out of western Canada, it may take another 4-6 days before we have another shot at strong heating across this hot house of the nation, remember, anytime you get major heat across the nation, it's always born over the desert Southwest!

What's Reaching Today's Blogs?

Hailers Today. South Florida Storms. Severe Weather Back Again Thursday
Henry Margusity, AccuWeather Here (Includes a video!)

Range of temperature variation in India
Vagaries of the Weather (Mumbai, (India) Here

Mississippi hit hard
Valley Weather (Quebec, Canada) Here

An expanding drought
Paul Douglas Weather Here **(This post has some great info and photos on the Yahoo City tornado and also other interesting weather stuff you can't miss)**

Wild Severe Weather Outbreak Could Be Repeated
Joe Lundburg, AccuWeather Here

Today's US Extremes
Courtesy of AccuWeather

High: 100 degrees at Death Valley, CA
Low: 10 degrees at Laramie, WY

Today's UK Extremes
Courtesy of the Met Office

Warmest High: 67 degrees at Wainfleet (Lincolnshire)
Coolest High: 48 degrees at Fair Isle (Orkney)
Coolest Low: 39 degrees at Aboyne (Aberdeenshire)

Today's Extremes at my house

High: 57 degrees
Low: 46 degrees


Thanks for reading.
-Mark

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