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Now that what a proper storm that brought deep cover hailstones. A named storm for today really over reacting and just standard boring LP does nothing but rain and winds.
Just noticed this though from a couple of weeks ago.
The same site has a link to the more recent event of 8" of rain in Slovenia in 10 hours on Friday.
Chichester 12m asl
Looks like wildfires have completcompletely destroyed the town of Lahaina which was home to 20,000 people.
Formerly of, Birdlip, highest village in the Cotswolds and snow heaven in winter; Hawkinge in Kent - roof of the South downs and Isles of Scilly, paradise in the UK.
Amazing to think you could ski in the morning and then do a 3 hour 30 drive to experience 54c at Death Valley.
NW Leeds
187m asl
My PWS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66526554
Canada wildfire: Race to evacuate city as blaze approaches
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/09/iran-persian-gulf-extreme-heat/
Meanwhile, in the past week, Morocco and Turkey have both recorded 50c for the first time ever
Evesham, Worcs, Albion - 35m asl
Weather & Earth Science News
Look in the doubt we've wallowed, look at the leaders we've followed, look at the lies we've swallowed, and I don't want to hear no more
The heat index, also known as the apparent temperature, is what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature. This has important considerations for the human body's comfort. When the body gets too hot, it begins to perspire or sweat to cool itself off.
More details at
https://www.weather.gov/ama/heatindex#:~:text=The%20heat%20index%2C%20also%20known,sweat%20to%20cool%20itself%20off
At first I couldn't believe my eyes when i saw the apps showing all day rain in Death Valley this coming Sunday with max only 30C and 27C at night. I checked on BBC forecast and same thing also so that a major storm in August? I never seen Death Valley drop to 30C at day time in August. I think 37C was the lowest max. I wonder if the E Nino are the cause for major all day rain event there instead of showers that normally hit and miss type. Very interesting to observe the rain and how low the max be like in furnace August month, ,plus flash floods likely.
Working at Luton Airport, Beds (160m asl)
Looks like Hurricane Hilary is the cause of the rain forecast for Death Valley as it moves north from Baja California. Not guaranteed though as the track of the storm could still deviate.
Originally Posted by: GezM
Look like a upgraded to prolonged the rain in Death Valley from 1 day to 3 days, with Saturday get some rain or thunder at 38% with all day rain on Sun and Monday with maxes of 28C and 31C respectively. Very strange to hear a hurricane Hilary make a impact in California instead of typical Florida keys. I am sure people and animals will be very blessed with a welcome break of cool and rainy weather.
Originally Posted by: Jiries
I'm sure that they have a "Summer Monsoon" in the "desert" South West at this time of year on a fairly regular basis.
For those old enough to remember the original CSI series, they had episodes where it was pouring with rain in Vegas
Richmond, Surrey
Originally Posted by: lanky
Yes it does happen in summer but normally in a form of showers or thunderstorms so temps still go to highs 30's or 40's. I only see lowest 37C in August for Death Valley when it had rain showers and some clouds. This time round seem very overcast and rainy all day to see such low maxes of 28C on Sunday, that 18C below average for 46C in Death Valley. Very interesting to watch this weekend while here very boring dead summer continues.
The NOAA have an interesting article about this from a couple of years ago.
Current conditions (personal WS)
From https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/08/rapidly-intensifying-hurricane-hilary-heads-toward-southern-california/
Very interesting read and never had this major storm hitting California for over 80 years. so exciting observation for me to see how much rain and very cool maxes reached over Death Valley in August. I been recording Death Valley since early 2000 and highest rain was over 1 inch but never several inches in a day so that storm might deliver it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66499946
The National Blend of Models (NBM) is forecasting 3.79" of rain for Death Valley, California, over a 3-day period. None of the climate stations in Death Valley National Park have ever recorded even 50% of that amount in a 3-day period in over a century of records.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/08/californias-first-tropical-storm-watch-on-record-as-hurricane-hilary-heads-for-baja/
Originally Posted by: DEW
Most rain events always break up to light rain when entering valley regions even in winter then reform more as it move east. Hilary storm are very strong and will penetrate the valley regions. This morning app show 26C max and 100% rainfall risk. Today max will drop to 38C with rain and thunderstorms arriving. Exciting time and once in our life time event to see this.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230819-thousands-ordered-to-flee-as-heat-wind-stoke-fire-on-spain-s-tenerife-island
US National Weather Service prediction.
Heavy rain in Death Valley and currently rising to 0.39 IN from 0.11 IN a hour ago. Very cool temps at 23C but they do midnight to midnight reset temps so today max would be 29.4C 85F just after midnight, cannot be max at 23C or 24C but will classed as minimum instead which so far 22C the lowest so far. If drop to 19C that would be considered coolest or even cold record for Death Valley, not sure if 19C ever reached in August as they only appear from late October onward to Spring for night time minimums.
The Death Valley August lowest minimum is 18°C (and the September minimum is 5°C).
Four Horsemen stuff, that 😏
FFS, the news these days; getting increasingly hysterical to chase 'clicks'.
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Oooh, winds of 70mph and a bit of rain
Originally Posted by: Saint Snow
In Las Vegas, the storm total from Saturday to Monday could challenge the city’s all-time three-day rainfall record of 2.59 inches on Aug. 20-22, 1957. [Eye on the Storm site]
oo-er! But to be fair there's no vegetation to trap the rain, so it will run off as flash floods plus the occasional mudslide.