Extreme 111° heat hits Texas; floods kill 9 in Haiti
Another round of unprecedented April heat hit the U.S. yesterday, and this time it was Texas' turn to see large sections of the state with the hottest April temperatures in over a century of record keeping. Seven major airports in Texas set all-time April high temperatures yesterday:
Amarillo, TX: 99° (old April record 98° on 4/22/1989 and 4/22/1965)
Lubbock, TX: 101° (old April record 100° on 4/16/1925 and /22/1989)
Dalhart, TX: 96° (old April record 94° on 4/22/1989)
Borger, TX: 99° (tied April record set on 4/22/1965)
Midland, TX: 104° (old April record 101° on 4/21/1989)
Abilene, TX: 104° (old April record 102° on 4/16/1925)
Childress, TX: 106° (old April record 102° on three occasions, most recently on 4/3/2011)
According to wunderground's weather historian Christopher C. Burt, both Texas and Oklahoma came within 2°F of their all-time April state high temperature record yesterday. Altus, Oklahoma hit 104°, falling 2° short of the April state record of 106° set at the Magnum Research Station in 1972. In the Texas Mesonet, it hit 111° at Knox City 3NW, which is just 2° short of the Texas April state record of 113° set at Catarina in 1984. According to Mr. Burt, What is amazing is that Knox City is in the north-central part of the state, not down in the Rio Grande region like Catarina. The 111° would probably be pretty close to whatever the all-time hottest temp for ANY month might be in that location (probably around 115°). On Sunday this week, Nevada just missed setting their April state high temperature record, when the mercury hit 105° in Laughlin (April state record: 106° in 1989.)
Figure 1. At least 36 of the roughly 400 major U.S. cities that maintain automated weather sensors at their local airports (8%) have set or tied all-time April high temperature records so far this month. The records set yesterday in Texas are not yet in the database, and are not included on this map. Image taken from our new Record Extremes page.
Earlier this week, all-time record April heat hit large portions of Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. At least 36 of the roughly 400 major U.S. cities that maintain automated weather sensors at their local airports (8%) have set or tied all-time April high temperature records so far this month; no all-time April cold records have been set. The U.S. has been on an extraordinary pace of setting high temperature records so far in 2012. During March 2012, an astonishing 32% of all the major airports in the U.S. set all-time March high temperature records. For the year-to-date, there have been 184 new all-time monthly high temperature records set at the major airports, and 6 all-time monthly low temperature records. Not surprisingly, the period January - March this year has been the warmest such period in the U.S. since record keeping began in 1895.
Figure 2. Total precipitable water (in mm) for this morning shows a surge of moisture moving westwards though the Caribbean. Precipitable water values in excess of 51 mm (2 inches, orange colors) are capable of generating heavy flooding rains. Image credit: University of Wisconsin CIMSS.
Heavy rains kill nine in Haiti
The rainy season has begun on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, where heavy rains that began on Monday have triggered mudslides and floods that killed nine people. Nearly 500,000 people are still homeless in Haiti from the January 2010 earthquake, making the country highly vulnerable to flooding disasters. Heavy flooding was also a problem this week in the neighboring Dominican Republic, where 11,000 people were evacuated; no deaths were reported there, however. Precipitation forecasts from the GFS model suggest that the worst is over for Hispaniola, with the axis of greatest moisture expected to move west of the island today. This surge of moisture will bring heavy rains to Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, and South Florida during the remainder of the week.
Jeff Masters
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Huffington Post: "American photographer Mitch Dobrowner has won the Sony World Photographer of the Year 2012 award, with a series of stunning photographs entitled Storms.
Dobrowner's extraordinary black and white photos of brooding skylines pregnant with impending storms defeated over 112,000 rival images that were submitted from 171 different countries."
Link
Look at the series of his photographs here:
http://lightbox.time.com/2011/09/13/mitch-dobrown er-the-storms/#1
Thanks hydrus, I guess that is what they are talking about...sounds like a lot of "wet" coming to us this weekend.
Good afternoon to you nigel.
By the way,Please call me Gams or Gamma,
my handle is way too long to type out. And everyone calls me one of those two names here.
Lol, I think that's why the NOGAPS is considered a bad model!
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
205 PM EDT THU APR 26 2012
CARIBBEAN SEA...
SOUTHWESTERLY UPPER LEVEL FLOW DOMINATES ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN W
OF 67W THIS AFTERNOON BETWEEN AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH DIGGING
SOUTHWARD OVER THE YUCATAN PENINSULA AND SE GULF OF MEXICO AND
AN UPPER LEVEL ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION CENTERED OVER NORTH-
CENTRAL VENEZUELA NEAR 10N67W. MIDDLE TO UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE
CONTINUES TO BE CONCENTRATED TO THE SE OF THE TROUGH AXIS THAT
SUPPORTS A STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDING FROM THE SW NORTH ATLC
ACROSS NW HISPANIOLA TO 19N74W. A SURFACE TROUGH IS ALSO
ANALYZED OVER THE SW CARIBBEAN FROM 18N83W TO 12N80W TO 10N76W.
WITH THESE BOUNDARIES IN PLACE ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN
CARIBBEAN...MAXIMUM LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE COUPLED WITH
FAVORABLE UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE CONTINUES TO GENERATE SCATTERED
TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED TSTMS FROM 10N-20N BETWEEN
71W-81W. TRADES HAVE INCREASE OVER THE CENTRAL CARIBBEAN DUE TO
AN TIGHTENING PRESSURE GRADIENT AS A 1023 MB HIGH HAS SETTLED
INTO THE SW NORTH ATLC CENTERED NEAR 29N71W THE PAST 24 HOURS.
THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO BECOME MORE DIFFUSE BY FRIDAY...
HOWEVER LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE WILL LINGER ACROSS THE NORTH-CENTRAL
AND SW CARIBBEAN FOR THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. AS A RESULT..AN
INCREASED PROBABILITY OF PRECIPITATION FOR HISPANIOLA...
JAMAICA...AND EASTERN CUBA INCLUDING THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING ACROSS HAITI AND PORTIONS OF THE
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND EASTERN CUBA ARE EXPECTED THE NEXT FEW
DAYS. OF NOTE...PRECIPITATION TOTALS ACROSS THE DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC HAVE TRENDED DOWNWARD FROM A PEAK 24 HOUR RAINFALL
TOTAL OF 6.9 INCHES REPORTED AT MONCION ON APR 24 TO 1.5 INCHES
REPORTED AT EL SEIBO ON APR 25.
NEWS RELEASE April 26, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.
*** FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL PARISHES AS RAINS CONTINUE ACROSS THE ISLAND *** The Meteorological Service has issued a Flash Flood Watch for low-lying and flood-prone areas of all parishes until 5:00 a.m. tomorrow A FLASH FLOOD WATCH means that flash flooding is possible and residents are advised to take precautionary measures, keep informed by listening to further releases from the Meteorologica Service and be ready for quick action if flooding is observed or if a Warning is issued. Showers and thunderstorms associated with the Trough east of Jamaica continued to affect the island today. Rainfall data indicates that light to moderate showers and isolated heavy showers occurred across sections of all parishes. With the rains forecast to continue into tonight and through Friday, flash flooding is possible over low-lying and flood-prone areas. Friday, flash flooding is possible over low-lying and flood-prone areas Strong winds are expected mainly over southern parishes and offshore waters. A Small Craft Warning is in effect for offshore areas of the south coast and fishers and other marine interests are being advised to exercise caution, as gusty winds and rough seas are likely in the vicinity of showers and thunderstorms. The Meteorological Service will continue to monitor the situation
Welcome Hydrus. Always a pleasure to find something new I can contribute from faraway Germany ...
Edit: Youtube video. The making of Dobrowner's photos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQbmXxU2dkg
Yeah, no problem
Where do you think the first landfalling storm of the Atlantic season will make landfall?
A. Northeast US
B. Southeast Atlantic Coast
C. Florida
D. Gulf Coast
E. Mexico
F. Other Central American country
G. One of the Caribbean islands
H. Bermuda
I. Spain
J. Canada
I say F.
actually Dr. Masters called it one of the reliable models:)
I say G.
Hey ET. Yes I am
I would say E or G
I'm not polling, I'm surveying ;-)
Well the past three seasons where the ENSO was going into El Nino events (2004, 2006, 2009) the first storm to make landfall in the Atlantic Basin was in the Gulf Coast.
So I'll go with the trend, and say the Gulf Coast, D.
(Mind you, they were all weak tropical systems, as can be expected for early season mischief from fronts, etc.)
Hubble was launched April 24, 1990, aboard Discovery's STS-31 mission. Hubble discoveries revolutionized nearly all areas of current astronomical research from planetary science to cosmology.
Geek, think I go with G.....
That was an adventure to get that on there.
This week April 26, 2012
Bob's guests this week are Lanny Dean from ExtremeChaseTours.Com. Lanny was in Kansas during the April 14,2012 Tornado Outbreak. We will discuss this and the Storm Chaser/Spectator convergence in Kansas that day.
Also, Chance Hayes, Warning Coordinating Meteorologist from the National Weather Service in Wichita, Kansas. We will discuss the April 14th event, and how quickly this day materialized as a Severe Weather Outbreak.
Starts in 15minutes
Storm Chat This is where I'll be. Come join me. Sign-in with your WU nick.
Catch ya's there.
I say C
Has anything ever made landfall in Spain?
Coastal sprinkles don't count as precipitation :)
lol
From the fires of Mount Doom?
Or from the Crucible of Training?
Wow, Gamma Gams... they's all sayin' you're hotter 'n X-rayted Legs.
I think it was from "Star Trek: The Return of Spock"
Spins it up into a moderate tropical storm by 216 hours (futureland)
Then tries to develop a second low by 228 and kills it off in the Caribbean.
Then another one by 300 hours.
AKA, not going to happen.
Hey, what's up?
The 228 and 300 hour lows won't happen, but for me generally anything inside of 10 days I take a little more seriously, so I wouldn't give the first potential storm no chance...
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
701 PM CDT THU APR 26 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
EASTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 701 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FRANKLIN...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FRANKLIN AND EAGLEVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3579 8653 3569 8666 3571 8669 3570 8674
3592 8694 3601 8683
TIME...MOT...LOC 0001Z 318DEG 21KT 3593 8687
$$
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lol I could believe it
CARIBBEAN SEA...
HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NOW FOCUSED OVER THE SW
CARIBBEAN WATERS...AS A 1010 MB LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND
ASSOCIATED TROUGH GENERATE SCATTERED MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 74W-84W. THIS SYSTEM IS CENTERED NEAR
11N77W WITH A SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDING NW FROM THE LOW CENTER TO
NEAR 17N82W. GUSTY WINDS UP TO 30 KTS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS CLOUD
TO SEA LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE ISOLATED WATER SPOUTS ARE LIKELY
WITHIN THE CONVECTIVE REGION. SEAS UP TO 10 FEET ARE FORECAST TO
EVOLVE TONIGHT FROM 11N-18N BETWEEN 64W-80W. TOTAL PRECIPITABLE
WATER IMAGERY SHOWS HIGH VALUES OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AS WELL AS
MIDDLE TO UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE CONCENTRATED WITHIN THE
CONVECTION REGION ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. SHORT RANGE COMPUTER
MODELS SUGGEST CONTINUOUS CONVECTION OVER THIS REGION AND
EXPANDING NNW ACROSS CUBA DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
WE SHALL FORGE A NEW FUTURE AS ONE
Like heck. I ain' 'bout to let no Blob swaller me.
(sneaky how I got the topic back to weather, ain't it?)
You live on High Ground right? I picked G but I wasn't aiming for your island.
You got some extra rain today, always more that you need it seems. Doing OK here. Our rain event just passed and it wasn't much of one. Very little fell here.
I'll bet you did! But we have to keep it Civil. It was worth the effort.
Apr. 26, 2012 - 22:45 UTC
Apr. 26, 2012 - 22:45 UTC
Yes I do, most of the the island above 200m, but we have many rivers which is the source of most of the flooding here....sorry you didn't get much rain
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