2006 & 2007

Record-breakers for the 3 previous years - ( 2005, 2004 & 2003 ).
For 5 prior years: - ( 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 & 1998 )



8/14/07 -
NORWAY - Southern Norway has been suffering through its WETTEST SUMMER ON RECORD.
BURKINA FASO - rains destroying people's homes and farmland in several areas across the country. "The situation is chaotic as in some areas we have NEVER SEEN SUCH HEAVY RAINS BEFORE."
8/13/07 -
CHINA - in south China's Guangdong province, the HEAVIEST FLOOD IN 200 YEARS HIT THE PROVINCE, spawned by tropical storm Pabuk. It was the HEAVIEST RAINFALL IN 200 YEARS.
INDIA - The Khongdei landslide was the WORST IN LIVING MEMORY.
8/12/07 -
ICELAND - Researchers have uncovered a NEW TYPE OF VOLCANO UNLIKE ANY IN THE WORLD. This may be the most significant geological discovery in the last 40 years.
VIRGINIA - Lightning strikes have caused more fires and damage in Albemarle County so far this summer than during ANY OTHER IN RECENT MEMORY.
Arctic sea ice is at its 'LOWEST EVER LEVELS. Sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere has plunged to the LOWEST RECORDED ICE AREA IN RECORDED HISTORY, the lowest levels ever measured and they expect the record low to be "annihilated" by summer's end. “The new record came a full month before the historic summer minimum typically occurs. There is still a month or more of melt likely this year. It is therefore almost certain that the previous 2005 record will be annihilated by the final 2007 annual minima closer to the end of this summer.” The drop in sea ice this year is more geographically sweeping than in previous low years. "The character of 2007's sea ice melt is unique in that it is dramatic and covers the entire Arctic sector.
DEFORESTATION of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil fell by about a third in the 12 months through July to the LOWEST RATE IN AT LEAST SEVEN YEARS.
8/10/07 -
SWITZERLAND - Torrential downpours disrupted travel and transport across Switzerland as the Alpine country experienced its HEAVIEST 24-HOUR PERIOD OF RAIN ON RECORD. In canton Jura 150 litres per square metre fell over a 72-hour period – the same amount as it normally receives during the entire month of August. Zurich was also hit by its WORST RAINFALL IN A CENTURY, with 100 litres per square metre falling in 24 hours between Wednesday and Thursday.
PENNSYLVANIA - Williamsport’s rainfall remains 5.88 inches below normal for this time of year, even though A RECORD WAS SET FOR RAINFALL on Tuesday with 2.22 inches of rain in 24 hours. The previous record daily maximum rainfall for Tuesday was 1.3 inches recorded in 1908.
NORTH DAKOTA - Wednesday's RECORD RAINFALL in the area was a double-edged sword for crops. Bismarck had 1.44 inches, which broke the daily record of 1.19 inches set in 1944.
CANADA - A massive slide that hit Mount Steele could be the LARGEST IN THE RECORDED HISTORY OF THE YUKON. “It was an absolutely massive amount of rock that fell.”
JULY - If you thought the weather was a bit UNUSUAL this July, you were not alone. The U.S. had the coolest July since 2004 with 89% of the U.S. trending colder than last year along with 898 RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES set or tied during the month. Of those, 159 record low temperatures occurred during the week of July 4th with temperatures in the 30s in the Great Lakes, 40s in the Northeast and 50s as far South as Texas and California. In contrast, July 2006 was the 2nd hottest in 113 years with 2,300 record high temperatures set. The cool trends were not limited to the Northern Hemisphere as Argentina showed the greatest July year-over-year change toward colder weather in over 100 years with the first snow in 89 years in Buenos Aires. France also showed the greatest year-over-year change toward colder July weather in decades.
The Earth is headed for a RECORD-SETTING HEAT WAVE after 2009. Each year from 2010 through 2014 has at least a 50 percent chance of being warmer than 1998, the hottest on record. The results for years beyond 2014, which haven't been published, suggest that heat records will continue to be set after that. Cooling in the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific will forestall record annual temperatures for the next two years. After that, global heat will resume an upward climb.
MONTANA - Depending upon who's talking, this year's fire season has already passed by the 2000 and 2003 seasons as the WORST SINCE 1910.
ALABAMA - RECORD HEAT was recorded in several cities Wednesday. It was 103 degrees in Montgomery, Anniston and Pinson. The heat wave is expected to be even worse today.
NORTH CAROLINA - RECORD-BREAKING TEMPERATURES will again scorch area residents. The morning temperature in Charlotte was the highest on record since 1896.
The water at American beaches was unsafe for swimming a RECORD NUMBER OF DAYS last year.
8/9/07 -
INDONESIA - a 7.5 earthquake Wednesday struck near the island of Java. IT WAS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST EARTHQUAKE SINCE AN 8.1 STRUCK OFF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS IN MAY.
FINLAND - The RECORD TEMPERATURE FOR THIS SUMMER WAS BROKEN in various parts of Ostrobothnia on Tuesday.
SOUTH CAROLINA - Temperatures continued to break records across South Carolina. It has never been hotter at the Greenville airport, which recorded a high of 104 degrees. It BROKE THE RECORD for Aug. 8 by six degrees, was THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN AUGUST and tied the all-time highest reading, previously reached in 1952, 1954 and 1999. Columbia, which is typically the hottest city in the state, due to its sandy soil, low elevation and distance from the ocean, climbed to 105 degrees, BREAKING THE PREVIOUS DAILY RECORD of 102 set in 1900. Greenville's high Tuesday of 100 degrees BROKE A DAILY RECORD set in 1935 "We are seeing RECORD ELECTRIC DEMANDS to go with these record high temperatures."
GEORGIA - Albany's high temperature reached a RECORD 106-degrees Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - temperatures at Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington International Airport SET A NEW RECORD at 102 degrees beating the previous record of 99 set in 1980.
8/8/07 -
INDIA - Bihar's government admitted that the overall flood situation in the state was UNPRECEDENTED with rivers wreaking havoc in 19 districts.
TEXAS - the first 7 months of the year were the WETTEST ON RECORD FOR TEXAS.
IOWA - 1.08 inches of rain fell in Waterloo during storms on Monday setting a NEW RECORD. The previous record for the day, set in 1967, stood at 1.03 inches.
HEAT / WILDFIRES / DROUGHT / CLIMATE CHANGE-
January and April 2007 recorded what was likely the HIGHEST LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURES THOSE MONTHS HAVE EVER SEEN since records began in 1880. January was a full 1.89°C (3.4°F) warmer than average and April 1.37°C (2.47°F) warmer than average. [see link for a catalog of extreme weather events recorded across the world during the first half of 2007]
8/7/07 -
FLORIDA - The official temperature hit 97 degrees in parts of South Florida on Sunday, setting a NEW RECORD and raising concerns about coping with the heat.
8/6/07 -
Lake Superior changes mystify scientists - Superior's level is at its LOWEST POINT IN EIGHT DECADES and will set a record this fall if, as expected, it dips three more inches. A weather buoy on the western side recently recorded an "amazing" 75 degrees, "AS WARM A SURFACE TEMPERATURE AS WE'VE EVER SEEN IN THIS LAKE."
8/5/07 -
SOUTH ASIA - The flooding is the WORST IN THREE DECADES. "The flood situation is very, very serious, the situation we have now is UNPRECEDENTED in the past 30 years."
UNITED KINGDOM - Bad weather over the recent weeks is threatening the bat population. "We have NEVER EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE, it's horrendous."
AUSTRALIA - A RECORD COLD SNAP on June 20 across southern Queensland.
BRITAIN - last month's deluges were the worst England has seen in 60 years. Leylandii trees are turning an ugly shade of brown as the WORST OUTBREAK OF CYPRESS APHIDS FOR 26 YEARS.
8/3/07 -
CHINA - Last month, fierce rainstorms swept across the nation, triggering floods, landslides and mud-rock flows. Several EXTREME WEATHER RECORDS WERE BROKEN. The Huaihe River, for example, which witnessed some 460 mm of rainfall last month, is expected to record its worst floods since 1954. Similarly, authorities in Jinan, capital of East China's Shandong Province, recorded 151 mm of rain in one hour on July 18, the most since 1958. Lightning strikes across the country claimed 141 lives last month, another record in recent history.
OHIO - A strong isolated thunderstorm formed over the downtown area and brought down with it torrential rains the likes of which many lifelong Clevelanders said THEY HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
IOWA - Some areas of western Iowa, like Sioux Center and Hawarden, had no rain at all for the month, a RECORD LOW AMOUNT and records have been kept in those areas for about 100 years.
CANADA - The third day of a scorching heat wave hit Peterborough hard with RECORD-SETTING TEMPERATURES and near-dangerous air quality.
This has been ONE OF THE DRIEST SUMMERS ON RECORD across Alberta.
European fires near RECORD levels - Forests fires that have ravaged southern Europe during the past month were SOME OF THE WORST ON RECORD. More than 3,000 sq km (1,200 sq miles) of forest have already burned this year, almost as much as in the whole of 2006. July 2007 was one of the worst-ever months on record, according to figures from the European Forest Fire Information System, which date back some 20 years.
BRITIAN - RARE clouds in the shape of jellyfish have caused a sensation after being spotted in British skies for THE FIRST TIME IN A DECADE.
8/2/07 -
CANADA - The eastern third of Newfoundland is reeling after post-tropical storm Chantal dumped up to 150 millimetres of rain in places on Wednesday and damaged bridges and homes. It was THE WORST STORM IN AT LEAST 40 YEARS in the hard-hit town of Placentia on the southern Avalon peninsula.
CANADA - Traffic on the Trans-Canada Highway ground to a halt for several hours, as RECORD-SETTING RAINFALLS overwhelmed a stretch of the highway near Whitbourne. Rainfall recorded at the St. John's airport topped 96 millimetres for the day, passing a one-day RECORD RAINFALL set in 1975 of 80.5 millimetres. Monthly averages of rainfall in the area are about 108 millimetres.
IRELAND - RECORD-BREAKING RAIN - More rain fell on Dublin in June and July than in any of the 170 years for which records have been kept.
TEXAS - July 2007 was THE WETTEST ON RECORD and the third coolest July on record in Tyler.
It is the FIRST TIME TEXAS HAS GENERATED ITS OWN "DEAD ZONE" in coastal waters. The rains of June and July have pushed the Brazos BEYOND ALL KNOWN DISCHARGE RECORDS. The rate of flow was MORE THAN TWICE THE RATE EVER MEASURED on the Brazos since 1967, when records were first kept.
SOUTH AFRICA - The wildfires that have been raging across South Africa have been described as the WORST THE COUNTRY HAS EXPERIENCED SINCE THE 1980s.
CANADA - Record-breaking rainfall in June led to excess moisture, which raised the humidity index during July's heat wave. It has been more than half a century since the city of Saskatoon has experienced such heat.
8/1/07 -
CANADA - Hydrologists with the Yukon government say floodwaters in the territory's Southern Lakes area may have reached their peak, with RECORD-HIGH WATERS. The current level at Marsh Lake, which has seen the worst flooding, BROKE THE HISTORIC LEVEL of 656.994 metres set in 1981.
BRITAIN - A growing number of experts believe that this year’s unpredictable weather, which brought spring on early, then deluged Britain with record rainfall, has now taken them straight to autumn - bypassing summer altogether. The early onset of autumn can be explained in part by record high temperatures in spring, when average temperatures of 48F (9C) – the highest since records began in 1914. The soaring spring temperatures were followed by the wettest summer in more than 200 years.
CANARY ISLANDS - More than 12,000 people have fled their homes on the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife, where five days of fires have burnt 35,000 hectares (86,000 acres) of land. "These are the BIGGEST FIRES IN THE LAST 10 YEARS on the archipelago.
7/31/07 -
Heat wave wreaking havoc across Southeast Europe - Rivers are drying up, and crops are being destroyed at an UNPRECEDENTED level.
7/30/07 -
FLORIDA - 3.55 inches of rain fell at the Gainesville Regional Airport before 7 p.m. Saturday, BREAKING THE OLD RAINFALL RECORD SET IN 1926, of 2.32 inches.
ISRAEL - Electricity consumption in Israel reached a NEW HIGH on Sunday, hitting a RECORD 10,040 megawatts consumed by 3 p.m.
WEST NILE VIRUS - According to US health officials, the USA is facing the WORST WEST NILE VIRUS SEASON FOR YEARS. The number of cases reported so far this year are four times higher than the equivalent period in 2006.
7/27/07 -
BRITAIN - the three months from May to July 2007 have BROKEN PREVIOUS RAINFALL RECORDS for this period, even before July is over. 387.6mm of rain have already fallen across England and Wales, making it the WETTEST MAY TO JULY SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1766.
ALASKA - RECORD RAINFALL on Tuesday over 24 hours contributed to a landslide on the upper part of Rezanof Drive West above the Kodiak Fishmeal Company.
SUDAN - Flooding reaching UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS. On 24 July the level of the Blue Nile at Khartoum, the capital, was "FAR ABOVE" THE RECORD LEVELS seen at this time of year in 1988.
MONTANA - RECORD HEAT in the Big Sky state, where Missoula, Montana, recorded 9 days with highs of 100°F or greater during the first 23 days of July.
MINNESOTA - In International Falls, Wednesday's high of 95 degrees BROKE THE 1949 RECORD of 92 degrees. Heat indices, or "feels-like" temperatures have been hovering near 105 degrees.
CANADA - NO PLACE IN CANADA HAS EVER BEEN AS HOT AND HUMID as Carman was Wednesday, at least since Environment Canada started keeping records more than 125 years ago. The humidex reading topped out at a whopping 53 C, BREAKING THE ALL-TIME CANADIAN HUMIDEX RECORD of 52.1 C set in Windsor, Ont., in 1953.
7/26/07 -
NEW JERSEY - Atlantic City International Airport in Egg Harbor Township had a RECORD LOW temperature for July 24. The thermometer dipped to 53 degrees, breaking a record low of 54 for the date set in 1985.
TAIWAN - Taitung County in eastern Taiwan has been hit hard by the MOST SERIOUS DROUGHT IN 30 YEARS. Now water wells in Chihshang township are running dry, something local residents say they have not seen in 60 years.
TURKEY is experiencing ONE OF ITS HOTTEST SUMMERS SINCE RECORDS BEGAN.
7/25/07 -
CANADA - A RECORD-BREAKING seven straight days of rain continued through Monday. Never before has B.C.'s capital area had such a persistence of rain in July. The previous record was five days, which has happened a number of times in the past. An all-time, record-high temperature of 36.3 C was set on July 11 in Victoria. B.C.'s South Coast - "We set the HOTTEST DAY EVER ON RECORD, we set the HOTTEST NIGHT EVER ON RECORD [a 'high minimum' of 19.6 C on July 10], and a NEW RAINY STREAK RECORD.
PENNSYLVANIA - The high temperature on Monday (7/23) was 62 degrees — enough to obliterate the RECORD-LOW MAXIMUM for the date, of 69 degrees at Avoca, reached in 1976 and the record-low maximum for July for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of 67, set in 1909. The RECORD FOR 24-HOUR RAINFALL was broken for Avoca, as the 0.88 inches through 5 p.m. Monday already broke the 0.81 inches recorded in 1960.
HUNGARY - Up to 500 people have died in the past week from the heatwave in Hungary. The death rate from heat in Hungary is THE HIGHEST IN RECENT YEARS. In the southern city of Kiskunhalas, the temperature reached a RECORD HIGH of 41.9C on Friday (7/20).
CALIFORNIA - RECORD TEMPERATURES and RECORD RAIN are basting the northern coast of California, a region known for brisk ocean breezes and chilly nights all year long. In Eureka, about 270 miles north of San Francisco, temperatures in the low 70s BROKE RECORDS FOUR DAYS STRAIGHT, from Friday to Monday.
CANADA - The heat wave swept into the Prairies over the weekend, BREAKING HEAT RECORDS in several cities dating back as far as the 1930s.
AUSTRALIA - July is expected to end as ONE OF THE DRIEST MONTHS ON RECORD for Brisbane and large parts of the Darling Downs.
7/24/07 -
NORTH DAKOTA - A storm that passed through Williston Monday morning broke a 95-YEAR-OLD RAIN RECORD in the city. 1.33 inches of rain fell in Williston, which broke the previous record for July 23rd of 1.14 inches, set in 1912.
TEXAS - The so-called "rain bomb" that hit South Texas over the weekend was just the latest in a SERIES OF RECORD-BREAKING RAINFALL EVENTS. The soaking summer weather pattern has been wreaking havoc across much of the State of Texas. On June 28, Marble Falls got close to 19 inches of rain - sweeping cars, trailers and even people downstream. "I would classify it at least as a 100-year event - getting 18 inches plus is not something we see very often." These extreme rain events - or "rain bombs" - started occurring in mid June.
WESTERN EUROPE - The deluge of rain hit Great Britain hard, particularly in central England, which saw the WORST FLOODING TO HIT THE AREA IN 60 YEARS and millions of pounds in damage.
The toll of victims in the WORST UNITED KINGDOM FLOODS IN MODERN HISTORY is spiralling towards a million. Tens of thousands more families were put on red alert as rivers reached levels not seen for more than 50 years across central, western and southern England.
BULGARIA experienced its HOTTEST TEMPERATURES SINCE RECORDS BEGAN on Monday with the thermometer shooting above 45 degrees.
NORTH DAKOTA - Grand Forks on Sunday had a RECORD HIGH MINIMUM TEMPERATURE for the date, of 72 degrees. That broke the previous record of 68 degrees, set in 1964. Dickinson reached 97, after a RECORD HIGH temperature of 102 on Saturday. It topped the record of 100 degrees set in 1936.
Food and drinking water shortages, panic buying and the threat of looting have followed the WORST FLOODING TO HIT ENGLAND IN 60 YEARS.
The death toll from Romania's heat wave rose to 15 on Sunday after six more people died in the Black Sea country where temperatures hovered around 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). M Tiny ex-Soviet neighbour Moldova, one of Europe's poorest nations, is suffering from the WORST DROUGHT IN 60 YEARS, with day temperatures hovering at a record 41 Celsius. 7/22/07 -
CHINA - THE DEADLIEST RAINY SEASON IN YEARS.
CANADA - Orillia, Ontario - A 28-YEAR-OLD RAINFALL RECORD was washed away when 105.4 millimetres of rain fell on Orillia Thursday night and Friday morning. A month's worth of rain fell in one hour.
EUROPE - In Hungary, the temperature hit an ALL-TIME RECORD of 41.9 degrees celsius at Kiskunhalas, 130 km south of the capital Budapest.
MONTANA - Missoula has hit 100 degrees or higher seven times already, BREAKING A RECORD set in 1936.
CANADA - The heat wave that swept through Western Canada and the South-Western States, has hit Manitoba, sending temperatures to NEW ALL-TIME HIGHS.
7/20/07 -
CALIFORNIA - San Francisco hit a strange milestone — the FIRST-EVER RECORDED RAINFALL FOR JULY 18. San Francisco has weather records stretching back to 1849, and no July 18 on any of those days had ever seen rain, until this year.
More than an inch of rain (1.09 inches) fell in Redding California BREAKING THE DAILY RECORD of 0.19 of an inch set in 1987. The normal rainfall for the entire three-month period of June through August is only 1.15 inches. Also impressive was the RECORD RAINFALL of 0.88 of an inch in Eureka; the old record was 0.11 of an inch in 1976.
CHINA The most recent deaths were in Jinan, capital of coastal Shandong province, which received a RECORD 7 INCHES OF RAIN within three hours on Wednesday.
SUDAN - As many as 60 people have been killed and over 100 injured by the WORST FLOODING IN SUDAN IN LIVING MEMORY.
SERBIA - Kosovo's largest waterfall, in the town of Klina, DRIED UP FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1965.
BULGARIA - The temperatures in six towns in Bulgaria's Danube plain on Thursday reached RECORD TEMPERATURES - their peak in over a century.
Hungary on Wednesday saw temperatures EXCEED THE PREVIOUS NATIONAL RECORD of 38 degrees centigrade recorded in 1904.
7/19/07 -
CHINA - At least 32 people died as thunderstorms of UNPRECEDENTED INTENSITY rocked southwestern China, SMASHING RAINFALL RECORDS and paralysing transport. The storms dropped 226.6mm of rain on the city centre, the LARGEST 24-HOUR TOTAL SINCE REORDS WERE FIRST KEPT in 1892, smashing the old record of 206.1mm.
AUSTRALIA - South-east Queenslanders have woken to a RECORD-BREAKING COLD morning. Temperatures fell to a record low at Brisbane Airport shortly after sunrise today, with a temperature of -0.1 degrees celsius recorded at 6.39am (AEST). The previous record for the airport was 0.6 degrees, recorded in 1971 and 1994.
Lighthearted weather stories are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Extreme weather in the form of drought and heat dominated the United States in the first half of 2007. In the Southeast, meanwhile, NOAA recorded the second-driest January to June period on record, and the DRIEST-EVER April to June in the Southeast. Worldwide, the year to date is the second-warmest on record, which could spell increasing trouble for water-stressed nations. Perhaps most ominously, the South Pole experienced THE WARMEST JUNE ON RECORD.
7/18/07 -
JAPAN - A RECORD-SETTING DOWNPOUR hit southern Osaka Prefecture and northwest Nara Prefecture. 112 millimeters of rain fell in Katsuragi, Nara Prefecture, in a three-hour period from Monday night to early Tuesday morning, and 106 millimeters was recorded in Kumatoricho, Osaka Prefecture. Both measurements were RECORDS for the municipalities.
7/17/07 -
AUSTRALIA - Sydney has experienced its COLDEST START TO A JULY DAY FOR 21 YEARS. The temperature plunged to 3.7 degrees in the city at 6.54am (AEST), which was the most frigid recorded since 1986.
7/16/07 -
BRITAIN - Floods, weather warnings and plummeting temperatures — summer 2007 will go down as ONE OF THE WORST EVER.
UTAH - A high of 104 degrees Saturday in Salt Lake City BROKE A 68-YEAR-OLD RECORD. The old record for July 14 was 103, set in 1939. Two other Utah locales set RECORD HIGHS Saturday, July 14. Brian Head, which reached 85, broke the old record of 78 from 1998. Coalville hit 100, eclipsing the previous record for July 14 of 99, set in 2002.
7/15/07 -
JAPAN - Powerful typhoon Man-yi is ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL STORMS IN DECADES - IT IS THE WORST TO HIT JAPAN IN JULY SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1951.
CHINA - Half of China is drenched and bedraggled by UNPRECEDENTED floods. On Friday, the WORST RAINSTORM TO ATTACK THE COUNTY OF JINGSHAN IN HUBEI PROVINCE SINCE RECORDS BEGAN interrupted power and water supplies for six hours.
PERU - For the past 6 weeks Peru has been in the grip of extremly cold weather with temperatures ranging between -22º and -15º C. The RECORD-BREAKING COLD SPELL has already affected over 200,000 people
7/13/07 -
SWITZERLAND - An avalanche in central Switzerland has killed six army recruits. The accident is ONE OF THE WORST IN THE SWISS MOUNTAINS in recent years.
7/12/07 -
IRELAND - THE MOST UNSEASONAL SUMMER WEATHER IN LIVING MEMORY continues.
NEW ZEALAND - In almost 30 years living on the shores of Eastern Beach, residents have never seen anything to rival the wild weather events of Tuesday night. South-easterly blasts FAR EXCEEDED ANY HE'S EVER SEEN PREVIOUSLY in terms of brute strength.
7/11/07 -
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Seven ALL-TIME TEMPERATURE HIGHS were set across British Columbia, with most of the records falling in the Fraser Valley, the Greater Vancouver area and on Vancouver Island.
OREGON - Crews around Portland and the Willamette Valley battled the fire threat as RECORD-BREAKING TEMPERATURES soared above 100 degrees Tuesday.
SINGAPORE - Dengue levels at RECORD HIGH, with 432 cases reported last week.
SOUTH AMERICA - Buenos Aires saw its FIRST SNOW IN NEARLY 90 YEARS.
7/08/07 -
LOUISIANA - Shreveport had a RECORD FOR RAINFALL on July 6. Between midnight Thursday and 5 p.m. the rainfall for the day stood at 4.09 inches.
BRITAIN - Some flood victims in Doncaster may never be able to return home, with others facing an 18-month wait to go back. 700 "environmental refugees" in the Yorkshire town were still unable to return home. This was THE BIGGEST NATIONAL DISASTER IN THE LAST 60 YEARS that Doncaster has dealt with.
DENMARK - 124 millimetres of rain ensured that June 2007 would go down as the nation’s WETTEST JUNE EVER. The average rainfall for June is 55 millimetres. The figures broke the old June mark of 123 mm set in 1946. It is yet another weather record for Denmark, where in the past year alone SIX MONTHS BROKE MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE RECORDS and it was THE WETTEST WINTER EVER.
U.S. - This week, temperatures were approaching or exceeding RECORD LEVELS ACROSS THE WEST. In Utah, St. George measured a high of 118 degrees - an ALL-TIME RECORD FOR THE STATE. Thursday, the same station posted a 117-degree high. Temperatures in Salt Lake City were expected to tie a record 102 on Friday.
MONTANA, OREGON - Friday the 6th, was THE HOTTEST DAY EVER RECORDED in Missoula, where sidewalks shimmered in heat that reached 107 degrees. Only on five instances since 1936 has the thermometer reached 105, the most recent on July 10, 1973. In Montana, triple-digit temperatures are usually not seen until August. . By midday, records were already set or tied in the Montana cities of Cut Bank, Great Falls, Havre, and Bozeman. Some 11 heat records were broken in the region on Thursday. Eastern Oregon SET 15 RECORD HIGHS on Thursday.
7/6/07 -
RUSSIA - Klyuchevskoy Volcano in the north central region of the Kamchatka Peninsula is blasting ash up to 32,000 feet in the air, and has diverted air traffic headed toward the Far East. This is the LARGEST ERUPTION TO OCCUR IN THE NORTH PACIFIC IN A DECADE.
BRITAIN - the latest dramatic landslip in the West Midlands has been caused by the WETTEST SPELL OF SUMMER WEATHER FOR 150 YEARS. Almost three times the monthly average of rain fell locally. 7.2 inches of rain fell compared with the 30-year average of 2.4 inches.
TEXAS - Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport recorded 2.02 inches of rain, easily BREAKING THE PREVIOUS JULY 3 RAINFALL RECORD of 1.2 inches.
PENNSYLVANIA - The storm that postponed many Independence Day events brought RECORD-SETTING RAINFALL. The 2.12 inches that fell Wednesday into Thursday morning is the most ever on July 4 in Allentown.
AUSTRALIA - The Australian tropics experienced ONE OF THE COLDEST JUNE MONTHS ON RECORD, with many RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES for the month. In total, more than 31% of the land area of Australia recorded their LOWEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES FOR JUNE. They set a new RECORD FOR THE WETTEST JUNE in tropical Australia, with the area-averaged total of 46.9 millimetres to June 27, exceeding the previous record of 39.1 mm set in both 1939 and 1973.
7/3/07 -
AUSTRALIA - A key central Gippsland reservoir was filled by what a water authority described as a ONE-IN-105-YEAR FLOOD EVENT during last week's floods.
KANSAS - Rivers swollen to RECORD LEVELS because of heavy rainfall over the past week continued to bedevil residents across southeast and eastern Kansas.
7/1/07 -
AUSTRALIA - Authorities were suggesting evacuations as Gippsland entered its fourth day of flooding after the HEAVIEST RAINFALLS IN ALMOST 40 YEARS.
AUSTRALIA - Townsville - Last month LONG-STANDING RECORDS WERE BROKEN ACROSS THE BOARD – from rainfall totals to temperatures.
OKLAHOMA - In Oklahoma City, rainfall was recorded for the 18th straight day Saturday, FOUR DAYS LONGER THAN THE PREVIOUS RECORD, set in 1937.
TEXAS - The flooding in Wichita Falls has taken a turn for the worse, with RECORD-BREAKING RIVER LEVELS and more evacuations as water spilled into parts of the city.
CALIFORNIA - July 1 of 2006 to June 30 of this year, only 3.21 inches of rain fell in downtown Los Angeles — the LOWEST PRECIPITATION LEVEL SINCE RECORDS STARTED BEING KEPT in the 1880s. Other cities around the region, including Pasadena, Culver City, Anaheim and Riverside, also set ALL-TIME RECORDS. The latest studies of brush and grasslands by the L.A. County Fire Department found that the moisture level in plants is THE LOWEST IN 26 YEARS. "We've NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS. Things are going to be bigger and worse than ever."
MONTANA - the 100-degree temperature recorded Thursday at Gallatin Field airport BROKE THE RECORD SET IN 1984. In Bozeman, the temperature hit a record-high 94 degrees Thursday, BREAKING THE OLD RECORD set in 1892. Across Southwest Montana, eight RECORD HIGHS WERE BROKEN.
6/29/07 -
AUSTRALIA - Gippsland in south-east Victoria is on major flood alert after some of the HEAVIEST RAIN IN YEARS.
6/28/07 -
BRITAIN - Eight regions across England and Wales – the North-east, Cheshire, Herefordshire, Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire, Yorkshire, Flintshire and the Isle of Man – have already had their WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD.
BRITAIN - The WORST DELUGE SINCE RECORDS BEGAN burst the banks of the rivers Don and Sheaf, sending millions of gallons of water into homes in Sheffield.
"While it's not unusual to get isolated flash floods in the summer, it's UNPRECEDENTED to experience so many serious flooding incidents at the same time."
IRELAND - Kilkenny is experiencing the WETTEST JUNE EVER RECORDED ANYWHERE IN IRELAND. Kilkenny has seen 14.4 cms of rain so far this month compared with just 2.7cm for the same month last year and easily beating the previous high of 11.8cm in June of 1998.
TEXAS - It's the WETTEST YEAR ON RECORD in Austin, where more than 30 inches of rain has fallen since January, and Dallas-Fort Worth, Waco and Wichita Falls have also received near record amounts.
OKLAHOMA - Wednesday was the 15th consecutive day of rain in Oklahoma City, BREAKING A RECORD SET IN JUNE 1937. Heavy rain flooded homes and roadways.
SOUTH AFRICA - UNUSUAL heavy snowfall fell in Johannesburg for the FIRST TIME IN A QUARTER OF A CENTURY.
EUROPE - Dozens of people across southern Europe have perished in a blistering heatwave. In Greece it was the LONGEST HEATWAVE IN THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY. “The weather conditions have been UNPRECEDENTED, we have never had a heatwave lasting for eight straight days.” Athens on Tuesday registered heat up to 46.2C (115.16) in the western district of Nea Filadelfia, the HIGHEST SINCE RECORDINGS THERE BEGAN in 1955.
GREECE is experiencing its WORST HEATWAVE IN 110 YEARS. In southern Italy, after the HOTTEST SPRING IN NEARLY TWO CENTURIES.
6/27/07 -
AUSTRALIA - The WILDEST WEATHER IN A DECADE has shut the Princes Highway.
AUSTRALIA - Residents of East Gippsland in Victoria are facing ONE OF THE BIGGEST FLOODS IN YEARS.
BRITAIN - Over the last few days Britain has been subjected to the “WORST RAIN FOR 50 YEARS”.
GREECE - HOTTEST JUNE EVER.
MALTA - The night between Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th was the WARMEST NIGHT RECORDED OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS. The lowest temperature registered by the Meteorological Office at Malta International Airport was 28.3 deg C.
COLORADO - Denver set a NEW RECORD when the temperature reached 100 degrees at the airport, beating the record from 1988 by one degree.
TENNESSEE - Monday the thermometer topped out at 94 degrees, BREAKING THE RECORD of 93-degrees set in 1940.
6/26/07 -
BRITAIN - "We have not seen anything like this before." "These are UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF FLOODING."
BRITAIN - The torrential rain which swept across Britain Monday, brought flooding, tornados and death, created the WETTEST JUNE DAY ON RECORD.
Southern and eastern Europe & the Mediterranean - A heatwave in Greece killed two pensioners at the weekend and pushed DEMAND FOR ELECTRICITY TO NEW ALL-TIME HIGHS.
6/25/07 -
PAKISTAN - Torrential rains and gale-force winds - The FEROCITY OF THE STORM WAS UNPRECEDENTED IN RECENT MEMORY.
AUSTRALIA - The drinking water crisis in the South-West has been further highlighted with some of the Western area’s main dams at RECORD LOWS. Millstream Dam just outside Bridgetown has dropped to an alltime Statewide low of 9 per cent capacity. The dam’s current condition was the worst seen in more than 20 years in the region.
6/23/07 -
SRI LANKA - June 10 - The strange objects that lit the night skies on June 10 have now been confirmed as meteors. “This is the FIRST TIME THAT METEORS OF SUCH MAGNITUDE HAVE FALLEN IN SRI LANKA.”
6/21/07 -
AUSTRALIA - Camden has already experienced its WETTEST JUNE IN 16 YEARS with 185.6 millimetres of rain recorded up to Monday, with more rain expected in the next week. 186.2mm of rain fell on Camden in June 1975. Camden also experienced its COLDEST DAILY MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE in seven years last Thursday when the thermometer hit a daily high of 12.4 degrees. It dropped to minus 0.6 degrees at the day's coldest point.
AUSTRALIA - across Mount Isa, in north-west Queensland, RAINFALL RECORD TOTAL FOR THE MONTH was more than 100mm. The temperature has also plummeted to its LOWEST LEVEL IN 42 YEARS.
EUROPE - Last autumn-winter season was Europe's WARMEST FOR MORE THAN 700 YEARS. The last time Europeans saw temperatures similar to those of the autumn and winter of 2006-07, they were eating strawberries at Christmas in 1289. Separately the temperatures experienced during autumn 2006 and winter 2007 are likely to have been the warmest in 500 years. But the sequential combination of two such warm seasons is a still RARER event – probably the first since 1289. Hazel trees and snowdrops in Germany blossomed a full 30 days earlier than at any time in the last 50 years in spring 2007. And in 2006, horse chestnut trees in Switzerland blossomed twice instead of their usual once.
6/19/07 -
CANADA - RECORD-BREAKING RAINFALL - Saskatoon residents were busy clearing out their basements on Monday, a day after more than 80 millimetres of rain fell in ONE OF THE HEAVIEST ONE-DAY DOWNPOURS THE CITY HAS EVER EXPERIENCED.
CANADA - The deluge of rain across southern Alberta is BREAKING DECADES-OLD PRECIPITATION RECORDS. Springbank, northwest of Calgary, recorded a whopping 38 millimetres of rainfall over an 18-hour period by 6 p.m. Sunday night. The total BEAT THE PREVIOUS 110-YEAR-OLD RECORD of 29.5 millimetres set back in 1897.
NEW ZEALAND - The rain that pelted Taranaki on May 23 could have been the HEAVIEST EVER RECORDED IN THE REGION. "The intensity of that rainfall was ABSOLUTELY FREAKISH. The rainfall recordings up in the Wawhakaiho River were the HIGHEST EVER - and it all literally happened in half an hour. "There were localised areas of very intense rainfall which produced extremely high, and in some cases UNPRECEDENTED, discharges. There was one report of 50mm of rainfall being recorded in 30 minutes."
VIRGINIA - Thursday's high was a RECORD LOW - the mercury stalled at 66 just before noon. That made for the LOWEST HIGH TEMPERATURE ON A JUNE 14 IN 133 YEARS of record-keeping. The coldest high temperature for the date had been 67, set in 1933.
Spring in the Arctic is arriving "weeks earlier" than a decade ago. Ice in north-east Greenland is melting an average of 14.6 days earlier than in the mid-1990s, bringing forward the date plants flower and birds lay eggs.
U.S. - More than a third of the United States is in the grip of a menacing drought that threatens to spread before the summer ends. "It's ONE OF THE WORST DROUGHTS IN LIVING MEMORY in the Southeast at this point. This happens only about every 50 years or so."
COLORADO - Denver BROKE A 67-YEAR RECORD with the temperature reaching 97-degrees on Sunday afternoon. The previous record high temperature for June 17 in Denver was 94 degrees, set in 1940. Temperatures across the rest of the state also were high Sunday, with Greeley the hottest reported at 100 degrees.
6/18/07 -
BRITAIN - By 8am in York, Friday was already the WETTEST DAY THEY HAVE HAD IN JUNE SINCE DAILY RECORDS BEGAN, and they had more rain in six hours than the whole of an average June. Some 50mm fell on top of the heavy rain they had endured earlier in the week.
TASMANIA - Hobart recorded its COLDEST TEMPERATURE IN 12 YEARS. The temperature dropped to just below freezing in Hobart this morning, the lowest since June 6, 1995. when the minimum recorded was -1C. Bushy Park in the Derwent Valley, in the state's south east, also recorded its LOWEST TEMPERATURE FOR 35 YEARS since June 1972 with -6C.
6/17/07 -
AUSTRALIA - The extreme weather battering NSW is set to make history this weekend, resulting in THE WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD SINCE 1964. It is already THE WETTEST JUNE SINCE 1975.
6/14/07 -
BANGLADESH - a hillside collapsed following a heavy downpour which measured a little more than nine inches in 24 hours. THE SCALE OF THE PRESENT LANDSLIDE HAS BEEN THE WORST EVER RECORDED IN BANGLADESH.
COLORADO - Denver is running over 3 degrees below normal for the month and just recently had its LATEST SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURE ON RECORD. Last Friday, June 8th, Denver recorded not only a RECORD LOW FOR THE DATE (31 degrees) , but also the 2nd lowest temperature ever recorded in June.
GEORGIA - The wildfires that have swept through the Okefenokee this year are the LARGEST IN THE LOWER 48 STATES OF THE U.S. IN NEARLY A CENTURY, since 1918.
Lake Superior, the world's largest freshwater lake, has DROPPED TO ITS LOWEST LEVEL IN 81 YEARS.
6/13/07 -
BANGLADESH - Heavy monsoon rains – the HIGHEST LEVELS RECORDED IN SEVEN YEARS.
AUSTRALIA - four days of heavy storms and flooding in eastern Australia - the WORST STORMS TO HIT THE REGION IN 30 YEARS.
6/11/07 -
PAKISTAN - the 16-year-old HEAT RECORD WAS BROKEN in Mianwali when the mercury shot up to 51 degree centigrade.
INDIA - the three deaths so far have BROKEN THE 5-YEAR RECORD OF HEAT WAVE CASUALTIES in Rajasthan.
INDIA - On Sunday, June 10, Shimla recorded 31.5 Celsius, the HIGHEST-EVER TEMPERATURE. Even the night temperature touched 22.3 Celsius, which is the HIGHEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED HERE.
CHINA - algae bloom in Lake Tai formed because WATER LEVELS ARE AT THEIR LOWEST IN 50 YEARS.
6/10/07 -
AUSTRALIA - heavy storms are continuing to lash eastern Australia. "This is the WORST STORM AND THE WORST DAMAGE OUR ELECTRICITY NETWORK HAS SEEN FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS."
CANADA - The Bulkley River at Quick has already exceeded the flow of 1948, and was also expected TO EXCEED ALL PREVIOUS LEVELS IN 77 YEARS OF RECORD-KEEPING. The Skeena river was expected to match the flow of the 1972 runoff year and it could break the 77-year record set in 1948.
CHINA - central Hunan province was on high alert after four successive days of rain swelled the Xiangjiang river to 4.6m above the “warning level” and to its HIGHEST MARK IN 20 YEARS.
U.S. - this is the DRIEST SPRING IN THE SOUTHEAST SINCE RECORD-KEEPING BEGAIN IN 1895. California and Nevada just recorded their DRIEST JUNE-TO-MAY PERIOD SINCE 1924. Minnesota is in its WORST DROUGHT SINCE 1976.
ALABAMA - Weather forecasters are calling the drought most of north Alabama is experiencing right now a “ONCE-IN-50-YEARS” EVENT. This is a history-making drought with the potential to continue through the summer. Some rivers have reached HISTORICALLY LOW STREAMFLOWS.
INDIA - The entire North India was left baking on Saturday with the mercury shooting up to RECORD LEVELS at many places.
PAKISTAN - The Punjab provincial capital city witnessed the hottest day of the season, as the temperature soared to 48 degree Celsius BREAKING A 78 YEAR HEAT RECORD, while the mercury hit 50 degrees Celsius at Mianwali. The previous high temperature in the city was recorded on June 8, 1929. Other cities of Punjab also witnessed RECORD SUMMER HEAT.
6/8/07 -
VIETNAM - Hung Ha district of Thai Binh province - "This is THE FIERCEST TORNADO HITTING THE DISTRICT OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS."
SOUTH AFRICA - From midnight to the afternoon of Wednesday 6 June, Joburg experienced its WETTEST WINTER DAY IN 44 YEARS – 25mm. The last time the city saw that much rain in June was in 1963 – on 12 June.
CANADA - It has been ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE WEATHER YEARS ON RECORD in Toronto, with unheard of mild conditions in January, one of the most bitterly cold Februarys in recent memory and a strange back and forth spring that's seen conditions blow hot and cold.
6/7/07 -
OMAN - Cyclone Gonu was THE STRONGEST TO HIT THE GULF FOR DECADES.
IRAN - the severity of the storm (Cyclone Gonu) in Chahbahar and Konark was UNPRECEDENTED IN THE LAST 30 YEARS.
Cyclone GONU was 406 nmi WSW of Karachi, Pakistan.
OMAN - Thousands of people fled as the STRONGEST CYCLONE TO THREATEN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA IN 60 YEARS, SINCE RECORD-KEEPING STARTED IN 1945, blasted Oman's eastern coast with strong winds.
6/6/07 -
OREGON - RECORD-BREAKING RAIN fell across the High Desert. Bend recorded .80 of an inch of moisture in the 24 hours ending Tuesday morning, smashing the old June 5 record of .60 of an inch, set back in 1988. Madras had three-quarters of an inch, breaking a 10-year-old record for the day, but that paled to Prineville's 1.31 inches, more than double the .62 of an inch record also set in 1997.
LOUISIANA - RECORD RAIN fell in Iberia Parish Monday. The Acadiana Regional Airport received 2.58 inches of rain on Monday. The amount was the most that has fallen at the airport on June 4 SINCE THE WEATHER SERVICE BEGAN KEEPING RECORDS IN 1948.
ALASKA - This May, Kodiakans experienced only eight days without rain. May 22 was a record day for THE MOST RAINFALL ON A SINGLE DAY FOR MAY with 2.7 inches, also the WINDIEST DAY OF THE MONTH as 35 mph winds pummeled the city. April too, was rainy, THE RAINIEST APRIL IN KODIAK ON RECORD, with 12.57 inches. Normal rainfall for that month is 5.48 inches.
CANADA - the upper Fraser COULD REACH ITS HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE THEY BEGAN MEASURING BACK IN THE 1950s.
MIDDLE EAST - Gonu is THE FIRST EVER CATEGORY-5 STORM OVER THE ARABIAN SEA.
6/5/07 -
NEW YORK - New York City received 4.65 inches of rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry, as measured at Central Park - 1.62 inches Sunday and 3.03 inches Monday. The amount measured Monday set A NEW DAILY RECORD, topping the old mark of 2.75 inches set in 2003.
NORTH DAKOTA - the Red River is expected to crest about 34 feet on Friday. That's a RECORD SEVENTH CREST IN A SINGLE SEASON.
MINNESOTA - RECORD RAIN over the weekend has put northwestern area communities into alert mode. In Fergus Falls, Saturday brought 5.47 inches of rain in the area, MORE THAN ON ANY DAY IDURING AT LEAST THE LAST 10 YEARS.
WISCONSIN - 124-YEAR-OLD WEATHER RECORD WAS SHATTERED Sunday in Madison, when an early evening cloudburst on Dane County's east side dumped three inches of rain at the airport. The total rainfall Sunday in Madison was 3.06 inches, eclipsing the old record of 2.4 inches for June 3, set in 1883.
KANSAS - RECORD PRECIPITATION pushed Hutchinson's annual total rainfall far past the norm, dumping a deluge that was almost double the normal amount received during the first five months of the year. Normal rainfall year to date is 10.74 inches, however, the heavy rains the past month pushed Hutchinson's rainfall total to 20.69 inches of rain since January. Hutchinson's average rainfall for May is 4.50 inches. But this May, 13.70 inches of rain was recorded at the Hutchinson Airport. This BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD of 12.5 inches in 1995. Two miles east of Hutchinson, rainfall for May averages 3.99 inches, based on a 50-year average. This May, that same location recorded 15.74 inches of rainfall, a nearly 400 percent increase. In Great Bend, where May precipitation is normally 3.92 inches, the 1995 record of 9.69 inches in May was broken when the town received 12.57 inches of rain. Kanopolis Reservoir also broke a 1995 record of 10.43 inches of rain, receiving 11.58 inches last month. This was a 273 percent increase from the norm for May of 4.24 inches.
6/5/07 -
NEW ZEALAND has just bathed in the WARMEST MAY IN MORE THAN 140 YEARS of temperature measurements. Most of the nation also experienced the DRIEST MAY ON RECORD and enjoyed more sun than the average autumn. The unusual spell has been mirrored across the Tasman, with Australia RECORDING ITS EQUAL WARMEST MAY ON RECORD, at 2C above normal.
6/4/07 -
INDIA - Varanasi also witnessed the hottest day this summer, BREAKING A 10-YEAR RECORD with 46.2 degrees.
6/3/07 -
TEXAS - FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 30 YEARS, San Antonio got through May without the official temperature breaking 90 degrees.
NEW YORK - it was the SUNNIEST MAY ON RECORD in Buffalo. Buffalo received 84 percent of the available sunshine for May, the highest for the month since sunshine statistics began being kept in 1891. The previous best May was 83 percent, in 1934. The average May is about 58 percent.
NEW YORK - A mere quarter-inch of rain fell in Rochester last month, making it THE DRIEST MAY ON RECORD here. Rochester, which averages 2.92 inches of rain in May, got a 0.24-inch sprinkle. The previous low was 0.36 inches in May 1977.
ALABAMA - 2007 already is the DRIEST SPRING ON RECORD in much of north and central Alabama.
GEORGIA - May was THE DRIEST ON RECORD IN THE LAST 107 YEARS in the city of Macon. During the month of May, only a trace of rain was reported at the airport. The previous record low rainfall for May occured in 1918 when just .11 of an inch of rain fell.
RUSSIA - THE FIVE HOTTEST DAYS IN MOSCOW'S RECORDED HISTORY - UNPRECEDENTED stretch of hot weather.
The last day of spring in Moscow has seen ANOTHER TEMPERATURE RECORD BROKEN, the sixth this month. The mercury in the capital topped 31 degrees Celsius (87.8 degrees Fahrenheit) by midday, beating the previous record for May 31 of 30.6 degrees Celsius (87 degrees Fahrenheit) set in 1889.
6/1/07 -
NORTH DAKOTA - The RAIN HAS SET RECORDS in Bismarck and Dickinson. Bismarck got a record 1.95 inches yesterday. It tops the mark of 1.53 inches that has stood since 1884.
AUSTRALIA - Most of Queensland, NSW, Victoria, the ACT and Tasmania all had their WARMEST MAY ON RECORD. Sydney had its WARMEST MAY SINCE 1958, but could have hit an all-time high if it wasn't for a spell of cool nights in the past week. In Canberra, it was THE WARMEST MAY IN 68 YEARS worth of records. Brisbane had its WARMEST MAY IN SEVEN YEARS. The longest-standing record broken was that of Melbourne itself which had its WARMEST MAY IN 152 YEARS OF RECORDS. In Tasmania, Hobart had its WARMEST MAY IN 124 YEARS of records.
FLORIDA - Already dangerously dry, Lake Okeechobee dropped to a RECORD LOW. Months of low rainfall, measuring only 40 inches in the past 18 months, have been extreme enough to qualify the drought as a ONCE-IN-A-CENTURY EVENT for the 730-square-mile lake.
NEW YORK - The city of Rochester was just hours away from closing the books on its DRIEST MAY ON RECORD. Barring any torrential rains before midnight, Rochester will have received just a quarter-inch of rain for the month, making it the driest since the mid-19th century when the government began keeping weather records.
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5/31/07 -
NORTH DAKOTA - The RAIN HAS SET RECORDS in Bismarck and Dickinson. Bismarck got a record 1.95 inches yesterday. It tops the mark of 1.53 inches that has stood since 1884.
AUSTRALIA - Most of Queensland, NSW, Victoria, the ACT and Tasmania all had their WARMEST MAY ON RECORD.Sydney had its WARMEST MAY SINCE 1958, but could have hit an all-time high if it wasn't for a spell of cool nights in the past week. In Canberra, it was THE WARMEST MAY IN 68 YEARS worth of records. Brisbane had its WARMEST MAY IN SEVEN YEARS. The longest-standing record broken was that of Melbourne itself which had its WARMEST MAY IN 152 YEARS OF RECORDS. In Tasmania, Hobart had its WARMEST MAY IN 124 YEARS of records.
FLORIDA - Already dangerously dry, Lake Okeechobee dropped to a RECORD LOW. to Months of low rainfall, measuring only 40 inches in the past 18 months, have been extreme enough to qualify the drought as a ONCE-IN-A-CENTURY EVENT for the 730-square-mile lake.
NEW YORK - The city of Rochester was just hours away from closing the books on its DRIEST MAY ON RECORD. Barring any torrential rains before midnight, Rochester will have received just a quarter-inch of rain for the month, making it the driest since the mid-19th century when the government began keeping weather records.
The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Barbara follows Alvin, the first tropical storm of the eastern Pacific's 2007 season. It's UNPRECEDENTED FOR THERE TO BE TWO NAMED EASTERN PACIFIC STORMS IN MAY. The hurricane center has named only two May storms in the past, in 1984 and 1956.
OKLAHOMA - WETTEST MAY IN A DECADE - The heavy rains have made this May the wettest May since 1997 when Pauls Valley received a total of 4.75 inches of rain for the whole month. Pauls Valley’s total rainfall so far this month is 8.38 inches of rain.
NEBRASKA - DAILY RAINFALL RECORDS FELL in Broken Bow and North Platte on Tuesday. Broken Bow received 5.65 inches of rain, crushing the old one-day record of 1.79 inches set in 1903. North Platte received 2.95 inches of rain Tuesday; the old record of 1.84 inches was set in 1979.
5/30/07 -
RUSSIA - HEAT RECORD BROKEN FOR THE FOURTH DAY IN A ROW - Moscow has BROKEN THE ALL-TIME TEMPERATURE RECORD FOR MAY 30, after BREAKING THE RECORDS FOR EACH OF THE PREVIOUS THREE DAYS. The mercury reached 31.9 degrees Celsius (89.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by mid-day, beating a 116-year record of 31.4 degrees Celsius (88.5 degrees Fahrenheit) for Wednesday's date.
BRITAIN - Torrential downpours in Luton over the Bank Holiday weekend were the WORST RAINFALL FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. From 9pm on Saturday until 9pm on Monday, there was a record 99mm of rain - the HIGHEST TWO-DAY RAINFALL TOTAL in the town since local records began in 1891. "It's historic. It's a new record for the region. That is two months worth of rain in just two days."
BRITAIN - Arctic winds swept across the country at speeds of up to 50mph in ONE OF THE COLDEST Whitsun Bank Holidays SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1772.
5/29/07 -
RUSSIA - Another HEAT RECORD has fallen as Russia's capital city continues to bake in unseasonable May weather, with a temperature of 32.1 degrees Celsius (89.7 degrees Fahrenheit) beating a 116-year-old maximum on Tuesday.
AUSTRALIA - Melbourne's HOTTEST MAY NIGHT ON RECORD — 17.9 degrees — was recorded early yesterday, beating the previous record of 17.8 degrees in 1947.
EUROPE - the HOTTEST MAY DAY IN MOSCOW SINCE RECORDS BEGAN with temperatures hitting 32.7 degrees Celsius.
RUSSIA - Yesterday was the HOTTEST MAY DAY IN MOSCOW FOR OVER A CENTURY: thermometers on May 28 read +32.9 degrees Celsius (91.2 degrees Fahrenheit), and meteorologists say that the Russian capital HAS NOT SEEN SUCH A SUSTAINED STREAK OF +30-DEGREE DAYS IN MAY FOR 128 YEARS. "It's really an extreme event." "For the last week – May 23, 27, and 28 – several temperature records have been broken." As a result of a high-pressure system, all of European Russia is experiencing hot weather – since last week, every other city in this region has seen new temperature records set.
5/27/07 -
TEXAS RAIN RECORDS WERE SMASHED THROUGHOUT CAMERON COUNTY. Friday’s record beat Brownsville's previous 1890 record of 1.73 inches.
TEXAS - A tornado swept through Killeen, destroying homes and businesses in its path. The storm struck after emergency workers had been dealing with two days of deadly flooding. "This weather is crazy. IT'S UNHEARD OF ALL AT ONCE."
CHINA - a southwestern region is suffering its WORST DROUGHT IN 60 YEARS.
BRITAIN - A warm spring has brought about the early arrival of some UK wildlife. "This has been OUR EARLIEST SPRINGWATCH YEAR, well ahead of the normal time we would have expected to see these events 30 years ago."
CANADA - Ottawa - on Jan. 5 it was a balmy 50 degrees Fahrenheit, by far the WARMEST SUCH DATE THERE IN RECORDED HISTORY. People were out golfing, the FIRST TIME IN RECORDED MEMORY people could golf in eastern Ontario in January.
LITHUANIA - NEW HEAT RECORDS were registered throughout Lithuania this week as more hot weather and thunder showers are forecast for the weekend. On Tuesday, May 22, the nation’s highs were 27 - 30 degrees Celsius, exceeding the temperature records for that day at as many as 15 meteorology stations. More heat records were expected to be broken Saturday.
MASSACHUSETTS - Boston hit 92 degrees, recorded at Logan Airport. That BROKE A DAILY RECORD GOING BACK TO 1932, when it was 91. Worcester's 88 degrees tied the record, also set in 1932.
5/25/07 -
HAWAII - A magnitude-4.7 earthquake centered beneath Kilauea volcano's east rift zone jolted the Big Island Thursday morning, and was followed by a smaller aftershock. The temblor was THE LARGEST IN THAT PARTICULAR AREA IN AT LEAST THE LAST 50 YEARS.
5/24/07 -
SOUTH AFRICA - The South African Weather Service reported 54 NEW RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES nationwide.
5/23/07 -
GEORGIA - Drought could stop all outdoor water use, after ONE OF THE DRIEST SPRINGS IN RECENT HISTORY.
ALABAMA - It's being called the WORST DROUGHT IN ALABAMA IN NEARLY FIFTY YEARS.
5/22/07 -
FLORIDA -The rainy season officially arrived May 14, almost a week ahead of schedule and the EARLIEST START SINCE 1995, when it began on April 25. On average, the rainy season begins May 20.
INDIA - It was the FIRST TIME IN THE MONTH OF MAY THAT PEOPLE FACED DRY HOT WINDS popularly known as "loo" in this part of the world.
5/21/07 -
MALDIVES - the government has appealed to the international community for aid to deal with the damage caused by floods from tidal swells which began on Tuesday. The UNPRECEDENTED sea swells caused extensive flooding. Tuesday’s “simultaneous flooding of 55 islands was UNPRECEDENTED...there is no record of such an event apart from the tsunami.” "This is the SECOND BIGGEST FLOOD DISASTER IN OUR HISTORY AFTER THE TSUNAMI. NEVER IN THE COUNTRY'S RECORDED HISTORY HAD SO MANY ISLANDS FACED FLOODING SIMULTANEOUSLY.
5/20/07 -
CANADA - A Manhattan-sized ice island off the northwest coast of Canada's Ellesmere Island could soon be on the move because of extraordinary conditions in the eastern Arctic. It is 66 square kilometres in area and between 30 and 40 metres thick, making it the LARGEST ICE ISLAND IN CANADA IN 30 YEARS.
5/18/07 -
VIETNAM - In Phan Rang - Thap Cham Town, in the south central province of Binh Thuan, rainfall measured 120mm, the HIGHEST LEVEL IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS.
Earth's natural defences against climate change 'beginning to fail' - The earth's ability to soak up the gases causing global warming is beginning to fail because of rising temperatures, in a long-feared sign of "positive feedback," new research reveals. "The climate clock is beginning to tick faster...The shift that has been detected in a four-year study...is ONE OF THE MOST OMINOUS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE. It implies a breach in the planet's own defences against global warming."
5/17/07 -
THAILAND - A powerful earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, with its epicentre in northern Laos, jolted many parts of the country. "This COULD BE THE BIGGEST QUAKE EVER EXPERIENCED IN THE NORTH."
GEORGIA - The WORST WILDFIRES IN GEORGIA SINCE THE 1950s have blackened more than 600 square miles of dried-out forest and swampland in drought-stricken southeastern Georgia and northern Florida.
5/16/07 -
ANTARCTICA - Vast areas of snow in Antarctica melted in 2005 when temperatures warmed up for a week in the summer (January). A new analysis of satellite data showed that an area the size of California melted and then re-froze - THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THAWING IN 30 YEARS.
5/15/07 -
AUSTRALIA - Melbourne has notched up its DRIEST YEAR ON RECORD, with less than half the average annual rain falling on the city. The 40-year record was smashed with a measly 316.4mm of rainfall recorded in the past 365 days. Melbourne's average annual rainfall is 638.8mm. UNPRECEDENTED severe drought conditions persisted in Melbourne and surrounding areas over the last year. They have had an UNPRECEDENTED 10-year pattern of below-average rainfall.
NAMIBIA - RECORD TEMPERATURES at the coast soared at the weekend, as the dreaded annual east-wind conditions set in. Friday's maximum temperature was in fact the HIGHEST THE CENTRAL COASTAL AREA HAS EVER EXPERIENCED.
5/14/07 -
REUNION - a storm was the WORST IN LIVING MEMORY.
GEORGIA - crops are at risk because of a drought that has reached extreme conditions in 33 out of 159 counties. The dry weather is the WORST SEEN IN 38 YEARS by the agriculture department director. The extreme drought conditions in 33 counties are expected by weather experts only ONCE EVERY 50 YEARS. Another 46 counties are rated as having severe drought, meaning the dry spell is as bad as experts would expect ONCE IN 20 YEARS.
CALIFORNIA - CATTLE - San Luis Obispo County cattle ranchers are selling cattle off in RECORD NUMBERS after this season’s meager rainfall failed to produce enough grasses to sustain their herds.
5/11/07-
Andrea was THE FIRST NAMED STORM IN MAY IN MORE THAN 25 YEARS.
It was the WORST FLOODING IN 50 YEARS in Uruguay.
CALIFORNIA - the WORST FIRE IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS IN 50 YEARS." Southern California is suffering its DRIEST YEAR ON RECORD.
CALIFORNIA - Sonoma County is facing UNPRECEDENTED LOW WATER LEVELS in Lake Mendocino.
FLORIDA - UNPRECEDENTED drought conditions.
5/10/07 -
NEBRASKA - Omaha SET A RECORD FOR RAINFALL for the first seven days of May. Based on readings at Eppley Airfield, the city received 7.46 inches of rain during that period. That exceeded the previous high by nearly 2.5 inches. Omaha has seen its WETTEST YEAR ON RECORD, too. The city recorded 17.03 inches of precipitation from Jan. 1 through Monday. The record was 14.58 inches in 1973. TWO DAILY RECORDS for May were set, too.
CANADA - the mercury climbed to RECORD-BREAKING LEVELS across southern and central Manitoba. At 5 p.m. CT, it was 31 C in Winnipeg. The city's previous record for May 9 was 30.7 C, set in 1992. Winnipeg isn't the only Manitoba locale to smash a heat record Wednesday. "We had RECORDS SET, for example, in Dauphin, at Gimli, at Swan River, at Fisher Branch, Gretna, Melita and even in central Manitoba."
5/9/07 -
U.S. MIDWEST - RECORD-LEVEL FLOODING predicted
BURMA - Some 8.94 inches of rain were recorded in Pegu on May 6. It is the MOST RAIN RECORDED OVER A 24-HOUR PERIOD IN THE MONTH OF MAY IN 42 YEARS in Burma. Rain in the former capital from May 4-5 was the HEAVIEST IN AT LEAST FOUR DECADES. The 11.14 inches of rain that fell in Mingaladon in Rangoon was the HIGHEST IN 60 YEARS. (photo)
CHINA - Beijing is experiencing its EARLIEST SUMMER IN MORE THAN 30 YEARS. The temperature rose to 33.5 degrees Celsius (92 Fahrenheit) on Monday, the highest in the capital this year and HOTTEST FOR THAT DATE SINCE 1986. Sunny weather expected in Shanghai could also mean the EARLIEST SUMMER IN 100 YEARS in the commercial hub. The average temperature across the country in April was 1 degree Celsius higher than normal. The early summer follows one of the warmest winters in decades and a sizzling 2006, China's hottest year since 1951.
5/8/07 -
The BRIGHTEST STELLAR EXPLOSION EVER RECORDED has occurred in a nearby galaxy and a similar explosion may be ready to go off in our own galaxy. "This was a truly monstrous explosion, a hundred times more energetic than a typical supernova. That means the star that exploded might have been as massive as a star can get, about 150 times that of our sun. We've never seen that before." It is UNPRECEDENTED to find such a massive star and witness its death. Eta Carinae's explosion COULD BE THE BEST STAR-SHOW IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN CIVILIZATION."
CALIFORNIA - Ventura County was seeing RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES. By 10 a.m., the temperature in Camarillo was 85 degrees, breaking a record that had stood since 1949, when the thermometer reached 84 degrees. It was a similar story in Oxnard, where it was 89 degrees as of 10:10 a.m. The record high for Oxnard for May 7th had been 85 degrees set in 1929.
CALIFORNIA - Santa Ana winds normally come in the fall and are RARE for May.
CALIFORNIA - Santa Ana-like winds baked the San Francisco Bay Area Monday, sending temperatures soaring toward RECORD LEVELS. The weather pattern tied or broke three local records on Sunday. Richmond recorded a high of 87, tying the previous mark set in 1969. Oakland soared to 90 degrees downtown, topping the previous high of 86 set in 1987 and topped 89 degrees at the Oakland International Airport to best the mark of 86 in 1949. Several long-standing records were being threatened early Monday including San Francisco's 93 set in 1879 and Santa Rosa's 91 set in 1916.
CALIFORNIA - Santa Ana's high on Monday was 99 degrees, SHATTERING THE RECORD for the date in 2004 by 8 degrees. Fullerton also set a NEW RECORD Monday at 97 degrees.
5/7/07 -
BURMA - Burma's biggest city, Rangoon, is trying to recover from severe flooding caused by days of heavy rain. Houses across the city are flooded, walls have collapsed and trees toppled in the WORST RAIN IN DECADES.
CHINA - The Altay region had seen little precipitation since last winter and has recorded its DRIEST SPRING SINCE 1974.
CHINA - RECORD TEMPERATURES in Beijing which saw the mercury hit 31.9 degrees (89.4 degrees Fahrenheit) on May 3, the HIGHEST IN 40 YEARS. This followed the WARMEST WINTER ON RECORD in the Chinese capital, when temperatures rose to 16 degrees Celsius in early February, far above the normal average of around freezing. Northeastern China and the Himalayan region of Tibet also witnessed abnormally high temperatures during the winter months, which were the WARMEST IN BOTH REGIONS FOR DECADES.
CALIFORNIA - the measured water content of snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains was 71 percent below normal, the LOWEST IT HAS BEEN IN 20 YEARS.
5/6/07 -
MONTANA - Heavy rains and even some snow soaked western Montana on Thursday, BREAKING WET-WEATHER RECORDS.
CANADA - In Calgary on the 3rd, the city got hit with a RECORD 36.6 mm of rain in a 12-hour period - washing away the previous May 3 record of 15.2 mm from 1996.
INDIA - Heavy rains during the last three days has taken a toll of 11 people. More than 500 trees were uprooted in the city of Mysore and more then 50 vehicles were damaged. The authorities have been struggling hard to clear the trees which affected traffic at various points. Meanwhile the entire city was under dark due to power supply failure following torrential rains. The water supply to the city was also affected.
In Lucknow,India, May 3, the 43-mm rain recorded was the HIGHEST EVER IN THE FIRST WEEK OF MAY.
SCOTLAND - Warm weather causing the HIHGEST SALMONELLA LEVELS IN 5 YEARS in Scotland.
5/3/07 -
ALASKA - Rain, rain and more rain made last month the WETTEST APRIL ON RECORD in Kodiak.
MALTA - Last month, with only 5.2mm of rainfall, was ONE OF THE DRIEST APRILS OF THE PAST 84 YEARS.
WEST VIRGINIA - A new RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE for May 1 was added to the record books Tuesday in Bluefield. The old record high was 82 set back in 1962.
SOUTH DAKOTA - Sioux Falls set a RECORD HIGH Sunday of 90 degrees and tied a record high Monday of 92 (set in 1992). On Sunday, it broke the record of 86 set in 1965. On Sunday, Yankton also tied a record high of 92 set in 1891.
CALIFORNIA - snowpack in the Sierra is near its LOWEST LEVEL IN TWO DECADES.
5/2/07 -
THAILAND - WORST STORM IN 46 YEARS - the heaviest rainfall in 46 years.
5/1/07 -
NEW JERSEY - a RECORD 11.85 inches of rain fell in Newark this month, surpassing the old record of 11.14 inches in April 1983.
GEORGIA - The LARGEST WILDFIRE IN GEORGIA HISTORY.
ICELAND - Temperatures hit NEW RECORDS across Iceland Sunday. In Ásbyrgi national park in northeast Iceland the temperature went up to 23°C, which is THE HIGHEST EVER RECORDED TEMPERATURE IN ICELAND IN APRIL. Heat records were broken in other parts of the country too. The temperature in Akureyri, northeast Iceland, went up to 21.5°C, which is a record temperature there for April.
EUROPE - The month of April was so warm and so dry across Western Europe that it REWROTE THE WEATHER RECORD BOOKS IN COUNTRY AFTER COUNTRY. April 2007 was the eighth consecutive month of higher-than-normal temperatures in Germany, and the 13th straight month of unusually warm conditions in France. April — and the 12 months ending in April — are set to be the WARMEST IN 350 YEARS that records of the Central England Temperature have been kept. In Germany, April set records in three categories — it was the driest, sunniest and warmest April since comparable records have been kept, starting in 1901. The average monthly temperature across Germany was 53 degrees Fahrenheit, 8 degrees above normal; the previous record of 51 degrees was set in 1961. The sun shone for 283 hours in the month, nearly double the average. The sunniest April on record had been that of 1968, when 217 hours of sunshine were logged. In the Rhineland, in the western part of Germany, there were 15 days with temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit) in April, more than are seen in a typical July. And only 7 percent of the usual amount of rain fell in the month. In the north and much of central Italy, the temperature in April was 11 to 13 degrees warmer than the historic average.
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4/30/07 -
ARIZONA - The temperature in Lake Havasu City inched past the RECORD HIGH over the weekend. The thermometer shot to 104.6 degrees at 4:10 p.m. Saturday. The previous record was 104 degrees, set in 2000. Normally at this time of year, it would be 15 degrees cooler. The RECORD HIGH temperature in Imperial, Calif. was also broken Saturday, when it hit 106 degrees. The old record was 101 degrees, set in 2004.
4/29/07 -
UNITED KINGDOM - this month is likely to be the WARMEST APRIL SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1943. The provisional mean temperature for the UK is 10.0C (50.0F), beating the previous historical high of 9.2C (48.6), recorded in 1943. Forecasters say this month is on course to set new records in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The average temperature for the UK over the past 12 months is also shaping up to RECORD A NEW HIGH of 10.4C (50.7F) Meteorologists also expect this month to be the WARMEST APRIL IN CENTRAL ENGLAND FOR MORE THAN 300 YEARS.
4/27/07 -
EUROPE - Since the start of April, the temperatures and dryness have SET RECORDS in parts of France and Germany. Northern Italy and pockets of central Italy experienced RECORD-SETTING heat in April. Airparif issued its EARLIEST EVER OZONE-ALERT this year on April 15, beating a record of May 30, which was set in 2003.
4/25/07 -
AUSTRALIA - Wollongong has received its heaviest rainfall in more than six months. In the 30 hours to 3pm yesterday, 180mm - or more than seven inches - of rain fell at Bellambi. A total of 112mm was recorded at the University of Wollongong during the same period. Wollongong's average rainfall for the entire month of April is 127.1mm.
MASSACHUSETTS - RECORD TEMPERATURES - At Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, the temperature reached 87 degrees in mid-afternoon, beating the previous record for the date, 83 degrees, set in 1996.
CANADA - Each Maritime capital BROKE ITS TEMPERATURE RECORD on Monday by a significant margin. Charlottetown, Halifax and Fredericton all experienced temperatures in the mid- to high-20s, shattering some long-standing records. Fredericton's 28.1 C broke the 1984 record of 22.6 C; Charlottetown's 21.7 C bested the 1956 high of 15.6 C; and 23.7 C in Halifax topped the old mark of 18.3 C, a record set in 1913. Other Maritime areas saw record temperature jumps Monday. Czernkovich noted Miscou Island, N.B., which was 21.6 C, had a previous record high of 13.9 C.
4/24/07 -
BRITAIN - Legions of tiny frogs have been spotted among colorful flowerbeds across the UK. The pond-dwellers have rushed through the tadpole stage to become fully formed MANY WEEKS EARLIER THAN ANY PREVIOUS YEAR.
MASSACHUSETTS - A RECORD HIGH of 86 degrees was reported in Boston on Monday.
4/23/07 -
CANADA - SOME OF THE HIGHEST WATER TO HIT NORTHEASTERN SASKATCHEWAN IN THE LAST 50 YEARS. FLOODWATERS ARE AT RECORD LEVELS and are expected to continue rising.
CALIFORNIA - on Friday, RECORD LOW HIGH TEMPERATURES were reached for the day. Until the storm hit, it was the LONGEST INTO A SEASON DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES HAD GONE WITHOUT A DAY OF AT LEAST A HALF-INCH OF RAIN. The previous record was March 2, set during the 1923-24 season. The season begins July 1 each year. So far, this is THE DRIEST SEASON TO DATE, with 3.17 inches - nearly 12 inches below the normal rainfall to date. If fewer than 1.25 inches of rain fall by the end of the day on June 30, it will be the driest season since records began being kept in downtown Los Angeles in July 1877.
4/22/07 -
CANADA - Seal hunters are still stranded on menacing pack-ice in SOME OF THE WORST CONDITIONS ON THE NEWFOUNDLAND COAST FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS.
4/20/07 -
KUWAIT has been hit by a bizarre bout of torrential rain, with giant hailstones battering one of the driest countries in the world. Twice as much rain fell in 30 hours than the average level for the WHOLE OF THE YEAR. These levels are thought to have been UNPRECEDENTED.
AUSTRALIA - Last year's river inflows for the Murray-Darling Basin, which includes much of Queensland, NSW, Victoria and South Australia, were 60% LOWER THAN THE AREA'S LOWEST MINIMUM SINCE RECORDINGS BEGAN 115 YEARS AGO.
4/18/07 -
BEES - Beekeepers from 24 U.S. states have reported losses of up to 90 per cent of their hives from the mystery ailment — called Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD — that investigators say is UNLIKE ANYTHING THEY HAVE ENCOUNTERED BEFORE.
4/17/07 -
U.S. EAST COAST - The HEAVIEST RAINFALL IN 124 YEARS pelted the New York area as a storm swept in from the Midwest.
4/16/07 -
KANSAS - The cold snap with RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES has wreaked havoc on early-season crops.
4/13/07 -
MICHIGAN - A snowstorm dumped a RECORD AMOUNT of snow on Muskegon - 5.1 inches between 1 a.m. Wednesday and 1 a.m. Thursday. Wednesday's snowfall more than doubled the previous record for snowfall on April 11 - the 2.3 inches recorded in 1944 - and more than doubled the 2 inches of snow that normally falls here during the entire month of April.
4/12/07 -
Scientists have reported RECORD-HIGH EMISSIONS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY ON THE SUN, the biggest since the 1970s.
WISCONSIN - An April storm delivered enough punch to SET SNOWFALL RECORDS FOR THE DATE in Milwaukee and Madison.
INDONESIA - Scientists have reported what is thought to be one of the WORLD'S GREATEST MASS DEATH OF CORALS EVER RECORDED as a result of the earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia on March 28, 2005.
4/10/07 -
REUNION - Volcano experts say the shattering of one of the two craters of a giant volcano on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is the ERUPTION OF THE CENTURY. Scientists have made their first expedition to the site of the eruption, which took place more than a week ago, and say THE SCENE THERE IS APOCALYPTIC.
MYSTERY FISH - Scientists on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion have discovered hundreds of fish of unknown species, floating belly-up in the sea, following the spectacular volcanic eruption over the past week. "It's crazy. We've NEVER SEEN THIS WITH PREVIOUS ERUPTIONS." The dead fish have bulging eyes, heads sometimes protracted by a beak and appear to have surfaced from depths of about 500 metres.
CANADA - People in Whitehorse have had to wade through even more snow than usual in past months: it was ONE OF THE SNOWIEST WINTERS SINCE RECORDS BEGAN in 1940s. From November to March, the city had 149.7 centimetres of snowfall. In comparison, the record was set in 1991-92, when the city had 177.7 centimetres of snow.
KANSAS - On the 8th, it was the COLDEST EASTER MORNING ON RECORD in Topeka.
FLORIDA - Gainesville had a low temperature of 35 degrees Sunday morning, BEATING THE RECORD LOW of 38 degrees set in 1950. Jacksonville had a low of 31 degrees Sunday morning. That temperature beat the RECORD LOW FOR THE DAY of 37 degrees set in 1971 as well as the RECORD LOW FOR THE MONTH of 34 degrees set in 1987.
CALIFORNIA - Water officials are now predicting water shortages in 2008 because of a lower than predicted snow pack; the LOWEST IN TWO DECADES.
4/9/07 -
U.S. - Fruit growers in Missouri and Illinois face significant losses after record-low temperatures wreaked havoc on orchards. The growers said this could be the WORST DAMAGE THEY'VE HAD IN MORE THAN A DECADE.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two weeks into the spring season, more than one-third of the U.S. received unseasonal snow showers in ONE OF THE WEIRDEST WEATHER PATTERNS SEEN IN THE US OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS. Both Saturday and Sunday saw ONE OF THE LOWEST APRIL TEMPERATURES RECORDED IN THE LAST FEW DECADES. The Washington capital region HAD NOT SEEN SNOW IN APRIL FOR 17 YEARS.
TEXAS - Longview broke a 91-year-old weather record Saturday with the LOWEST RECORDED HIGH TEMPERATURE SINCE 1902, when weather data here was first recorded.
4/8/07 -
BRITAIN - The Easter weekend is set to BREAK ALL RECORDS after temperatures soared way above their average levels in April. If the hot weather continues, the Met Office has predicted the 1984 high in London of 23.7C could be smashed. The average UK temperature for early April is around 12C.
OREGON - Friday was Portland's warmest day so far in 2007, breaking a 22-year RECORD for the date. The temperature at Portland International Airport broke it with a high of 78 degrees at 4:20 p.m. Vancouver's high of 78 degrees broke the previous record of 76 degrees.
TEXAS - The trend toward a drier, hotter southwestern U.S., including all of Texas, probably has already begun and could become strikingly noticeable within about 15 years. Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, are HIGHER THAN AT ANY TIME IN THE PAST 650,000 years, and probably higher than in the past 800,000 years.
4/7/07 -
VIRGINIA - Flurries dusted the Norfolk area - It hadn't snowed in Norfolk in April since 1989. It hadn't snowed on April 7 in Norfolk SINCE OFFICIAL RECORD-KEEPING BEGAN in 1890.
A brutally cold surge of arctic air into the eastern half of the United States will easily bring RECORD-LOW temperatures on Easter morning and will allow temperatures in many cities to challenge THE COLDEST LOWS EVER REACHED DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL.
4/6/07 -
MICHIGAN - Negaunee Township measured 24 inches of snowfall Wednesday, BREAKING A 1974 RECORD of 12 inches.
U.S. - the "dust bowl", a Depression-era environmental disaster that drove 500,000 people from the southwestern American states, may soon return, US scientists have warned. The more arid climate will be UNLIKE ANY CONDITIONS THAT EXIST ON RECORD FOR THE AREA, which covers the southwest of the US and parts of northern Mexico and will leave the American Southwest in perpetual drought for the next 90 years. Unlike that area's recent droughts, which were caused by sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean know as El Nino, “the new aridity is caused by a poleward expansion of the subtropical dry zones.”
TEXAS - Kerrville has seen an unusual amount of rain since the start of 2007 with more in the forecast for April. A NEW RECORD was reached in March for rainfall with a total of 9.65 inches during the month. The previous record was 6.96 inches recorded in 1979.
The City of Fredericksburg has recorded a RECORD-BREAKING total of 8.33 inches of rain for the month. Not only did the city receive 6.70 inches more than it usually does in March alone, but last month’s 8.33-inch total also easily surpasses the annual average of 4.64 inches (by 3.69 inches) that fall here during the first three months of any year. Never since 1962 (when the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post began tabulating rainfall amounts) has the park rain gauge had a wetter March than this year’s.
4/6/07 -
Scientists confirm that GPS services were impacted by a December 2006 solar eruption. Forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observed two solar flares on December 5 and 6, 2006, which occurred during a solar minimum when solar activity is supposed to be much calmer. However, these solar radio bursts were powerful enough to stop receivers from reading the GPS signal on the entire sunlit side of the Earth, and "… produced as much as 10 TIMES MORE RADIO NOISE THAN THE PREVIOUS RECORD."
4/5/07 -
MADAGASCAR - "This is the WORST CYCLONE SEASON IN THE RECORDED HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY." Tropical cyclone Jaya was the sixth mayor cyclone to hit this season.
4/5/07 -
Southern African communities, local authorities and humanitarian partners are finding their resources stretched to the limit with the early arrival of the rainy season and relentless precipitation as well as an UNPRECEDENTED series of cyclones and tropical storms. Despite recent improvements in the capacities for disaster and emergency preparedness and response, areas of Angola, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia are working to rebuild their homes and recover their livelihoods after months of heavy rains.
CHINA - On Monday a RARE sandstorm blanketed the city of Shanghai with yellow dust, causing its WORST AIR QUALITY CRISIS SINCE MONITORING BEGAN.
4/3/07 -
CHINA - A RECORD decline in the water level at Huguangyan's volcanic lake in Guangdong has raised concern that the sleeping volcano is about to have a wake-up call.
4/2/07 -
SOLOMON ISLANDS - Since 1900, the Solomons has borne the brunt of 36 earthquakes registering 7.0 or more on the Richter scale, but none had reached 8.0 until today. "This is A ONE-IN-100-YEAR EARTHQUAKE for this area.
AUSTRALIA - Victoria's entire agricultural landmass was drought declared for the FIRST TIME IN THE STATE'S HISTORY.
OKLAHOMA - The latest wave of storms set a NEW RECORD FOR RAINFALL in Oklahoma City. The National Weather Service says more than 3.4 inches of rain fell in Oklahoma City yesterday, making it the RAINIEST MARCH DAY ON RECORD in the city. The most rain to fall on a March day previously was 2.84 inches on March 28th, 1988.
TEXAS - Lubbock has received more than 700 percent of its normal March rainfall, with much of the RECORD-BREAKING RAIN falling within the last week. The city has officially received 5.94 inches of rain since March 1, smashing the previous record for the entire month (3.56 inches), which was set in 1941. Also joining the record books is San Antonio, which has received 7.06 inches of rain so far this month, making it the WETTEST MARCH ON RECORD. The previous record was 6.12 inches set in March 1992.
MINNESOTA - The weather pattern that seems parked over Central Minnesota dropped 0.67 inches of rain Friday on St. Cloud, BREAKING THE PREVIOUS PRECIPITATION RECORD for the date by .06 of an inch. The fallen record was 14 years old. An older — and more formidable — record of 1.3 inches set in 1896 also was within reach.
CALIFORNIA - The mountain snowpack vital to water imports from Northern California is at the LOWEST LEVEL IN NEARLY TWO DECADES. The snowpack in the eastern Sierra is shaping up as ONE OF THE LOWEST SINCE THE START OF RECORDKEEPING in 1940. The Los Angeles area has received RECORD LOW RAINFALL this winter. And the Colorado River system remains in the grip of ONE OF THE WORST BASIN DROUGHTS IN CENTURIES.
Los Angeles is going through its LONGEST DRY SPELL IN AT LEAST 130 YEARS. "The rain season is currently the driest to date in downtown Los Angeles since records began in 1877." The city had received just 2.47 inches (6.27 centimeters) of rain since July 1, 2006, far from the normal precipitation of 13.94 inches (35.4 centimeters) in the same period. The worst earth-scorching year on record in the United States was last year in 2006, when fires burned nearly 15.5 thousand square miles (39,957 square kilometers) - an area close to the size of Switzerland.
NEW ZEALAND - the rain that fell during the past two days in some parts of the region was a ONE-IN-150-YEAR EVENT. Three months' worth of rain fell within 36 hours in several parts of Northland.
4/1/07 -
ALABAMA is as dry as it has been in generations. Alabama's drought - in its 27th month --reaches this severity ONLY ONCE EVERY 50 YEARS. Most rivers and streams across the state are experiencing below-normal streamflow, and many of those waterways are at RECORD-LOW LEVELS. In many Alabama locations, the first three months of 2007 have been the DRIEST ON RECORD.
NEVADA - Santa Cruz residents will soon be facing restrictions on water use due to some of the DRIEST WEATHER IN OVER A DECADE.
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3/30/07 -
TAIWAN - A warm and dry fohn wind boosted temperatures in southeastern Taitung County to 37.6 degrees Celsius at around noon Tuesday, the HIGHEST LEVEL IN A CENTURY. The high temperature of 37.6 degrees is a NEW RECORD WITHIN THE PAST 200 YEARS, breaking the previous record of 37.2 to 37.4 degrees set in 1996.
TEXAS - the county is experiencing ITS WETTEST MARCH IN 45 YEARS, SINCE RAINFALL RECORD-KEEPING BEGAN HERE in 1962. The Fredericksburg area is almost five inches ahead of where it normally would be by this time of the year.
WISCONSIN - 100 YEAR RECORD HEAT - On Monday, in Madison, the high of 79 BEAT THE PREVIOUS RECORD for the date (76) set in 1907. A high of 80 at Milwaukee topped the previous record for the date of 75 set in 1998. Even Wausau's high of 77 far exceeded the previous record for the date of 69 set in 1991. Wausau's normal high on March 26 is 44.
NEW ZEALAND - Parts of Northland have recorded their HEAVIEST RAINFALLS IN MORE THAN A CENTURY. NEW RECORDS were set in the Puhi Puhi hills north of Whangarei: 366mm of rain fell there in 38 hours, exceding the previous record set in 1905. Kaeo saw its highest rainfall since 1971.
3/29/07 -
AUSTRALIA - The Kimberley and Pilbara in northern Western Australia have had ONE OF THEIR WETTEST MONTHS ON RECORD due to three cyclones and a low-sitting monsoonal trough. "The previous wettest March on record was only 250mm back in 1967, so 426mm is well and truly the NEW RECORD."
3/28/07 -
TENNESEE - this month has been one of the WARMEST AND DRIEST MARCHES IN TENNESSEE HISTORY. Temperatures in Lafayette reached 86 degrees this Monday, March 26, matching a record set in 1910. Sunday's 86 degree high BROKE THE 100-YEAR RECORD for that date.
3/27/07 -
MINNESOTA - The Twin Cities reached a RECORD HIGH of 81 degrees on Monday and it was still 70 degrees in Minneapolis at 9 p.m. - anything but typical weather for March 26. The former record high for March 26 in the Twin Cities was 74 degrees, set in 1991.
ARGENTINA - Unusually heavy late-summer rains led to extensive flooding across northern Argentina from January through March. The rains were the HEAVIEST SEEN IN ARGENTINA IN 45 YEARS.
3/23/07 -
SOUTH AFRICA - Scientists monitoring waves off the South African coast say the highest wave measured during the violent storms off KwaZulu-Natal this week was a startling 12m, measured off Richards Bay. The waves in this week's storms were the HIGHEST THEY HAD MEASURED on the KZN coast IN 23 YEARS.
3/22/07 -
PAKISTAN - The prolonged winter rain spell dumped RECORD RAIN DURING THE MONTH OF MARCH.
SOUTH EASTERN U.S. - Spring's arrival follows the DRIEST December, January and February SPAN IN 117 YEARS OF RECORD-KEEPING in the Tennessee Valley Authority's seven-state region (Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.)
3/21/07 -
Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm activity will be 75% higher than usual this year according to Tropical Storm Risk. TSR’s FORECAST IS THE HIGHEST SINCE THEIR RECORDS BEGAN 23 YEARS AGO.
3/19/07 -
MASSACHUSETTS - Worcester had RECORD-SETTING snowfall Friday and Saturday.
3/18/07 -
MARYLAND - The rain totals at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport topped 2.13 inches by 9 pm. That BROKE THE 131-YEAR-OLD RECORD of 1.14 inches for the date, set in 1876. It was the city's oldest daily rainfall record for March.
VIRGINIA - RECORD DAILY RAINFALLS occurred at Reagan Washington National and Washington Dulles International airports on the 16th. National Airport received 1.55 inches, breaking the 1896 record of 1.09 inches for the date, and Dulles got 1.49 inches to eclipse the old record of 0.9 inches for the day, set in 1972.
3/18/07 -
Nature running riot after Europe's WARMEST WINTER EVER - Wheat harvested a month early, markets bursting with prematurely ripened produce, animals migrating too soon or not at all - Europe's warmest winter on record has made nature run amok, experts across the continent have reported. This winter was the warmest for the entire Northern Hemisphere of the planet since it began keeping records 128 years ago.
ARIZONA - It was another day of RECORD-BREAKING heat in Phoenix on Friday, the 16th - the high at Sky Harbor was 99 degrees. That's four degrees hotter than the old record of 95 set in 1921. "This is THE EARLIEST DATE IN HISTORY that we've ever seen a 96, 97, 98 and of course, 99. They usually get the first 99 degree temperature in Phoenix on May 9.
3/14/07 -
CANADA - The weekend's downpour produced the HIGHEST ONE-DAY RAINFALL TOTAL FOR MARCH IN ALMOST 60 YEARS. By the time the storm had passed, the capital region had its second-wettest March day ever, with 50.6 millimetres. The only wetter March day was in 1948, when a 54.1 total was recorded on the 21st.
The "Pineapple Express" resulted in RECORD-BREAKING TEMPERATURES in the South Okanagan. It was a record warm day with a high of 17.7C in Penticton. That broke the previous record for March 12 of 16.1 C set in 2004.
3/11/07 -
NEW ZEALAND - Fire crews are on high alert as the Waikato bakes in ONE OF THE DRIEST SUMMERS ON RECORD.
AUSTRALIA - the Thomson dam, which provides more than 60 per cent of Melbourne's water supplies, reached the RECORD LOW of 20 per cent.
3/9/07 -
JAPAN - RECORD EARLY BLOOM for cherry blossoms - Cherry trees are expected to bloom in Shizuoka as early as March 13, and in Takamatsu and Matsuyama four days later, the EARLIEST DATES ON RECORD. Agency officials expect the cherry trees to come into blossom in central Tokyo on March 18, 10 days earlier than normal and the second earliest date since the agency began keeping records on cherry blossoms in 1953. Cherry trees are expected to blossom in Nagoya and Fukuoka on March 20, and in Osaka on March 25, five to eight days earlier than average. The national average temperature was 1.52 degrees Celsius higher than normal from December to February, TYING PAST RECORDS.
3/8/07 -
HONG KONG - Temperatures plunged to just over 10 degrees Celsius in Hong Kong Wednesday, just days after the city announced it had basked in its WARMEST FEBRUARY ON RECORD. The average February temperature of 19.5 degrees was the HIGHEST EVER RECORDED, and there were 32 hours more sunshine than usual with 129.6 clocked for the month. It was also the DRIEST FEBRUARY ON RECORD. In mid-February, Hong Kong had its HOTTEST LUNAR NEW YEAR with temperatures on the first day of the Year of the Pig climbing above 25 degrees.
VIRGINIA - it was the COLDEST FEBRUARY SINCE 1980 in Roanoke.
MAINE - the minus 6 degrees reading at 7 a.m. on the 7th at the Portland Jetport broke the old RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE FOR THIS DATE of minus 3 set in 1989. The high temperature of 18 on Tuesday was the COLDEST HIGH TEMPERATURE EVER FOR MARCH 6, dating back to when weather records were first recorded at the Jetport in 1940. Although the low temperature of zero Tuesday morning was not a record, when combined with the record low high temperature, it gave Portland an average for the day of 9 degrees, breaking the record of 10 degrees for the LOWEST AVERAGE set on March 6, 1948.
NEW HAMPSHIRE - March 6 was the COLDEST MARCH DAY IN STATE HISTORY.
ILLINOIS - snowfall amounts in central and northern Illinois were typically 4-16 inches above normal, including 20 inches in Champaign-Urbana, the HIGHEST ON RECORD THERE SINCE 1903.
3/7/07 -
CHINA - hit by the WORST TIDAL WAVE IN 39 YEARS.
SOUTH AFRICA - Pietermaritzburg saw a NEW RECORD FOR HIGHEST DAILY RAINFALL IN MARCH, the previous high being 81mm. Other KZN towns that had broken their March records were Matatiele (55mm), Ixopo (50mm) and Greytown (77.2mm).
BRITAIN - Huge areas of Coventry and Warwickshire are threatened with further floods as the RECORDBREAKING wet weather shows no sign of letting up. And after the WETTEST START TO MARCH IN HALF A CENTURY, the forecasters say that there is more rain to come. A month's worth of rain fell on Coventry and Warwickshire in just three days and Friday was the WETTEST MARCH DAY IN MORE THAN 50 YEARS.
CANADA - RECORD COLD hit in Hamilton. A reading of -22 at 7 o'clock am at John C Munro International Airport was good enough to smash the old record of -19.4 which stood since 1960. February was the COLDEST ON RECORD SINCE 1979. Not a single drop of rain fell last month - which has happened ONLY ONCE SINCE RECORD-KEEPING BEGAN.
MASSACHUSETTS - At the Taunton office of the National Weather Service at 11 a.m. it was 3 degrees above zero with a wind child of about 20 degrees below zero. The temperature at midnight was 16 degrees which is the March 6 RECORD FOR THE LOWEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE FOR THE DATE.
CALIFORNIA - Los Angeles on pace for DRIEST RAIN YEAR EVER - With little moisture in usually wet February, meteorologists said Los Angeles is facing its driest year ever with less than 2 1/2 inches of rain so far.
3/6/07 -
RUSSIA - More than two monthly amounts of precipitation were recorded in the southern districts of the Territory and in Vladivostok during twenty-four hours. The current snowfall was the HEAVIEST EVER IN THE ENTIRE 130-YEAR HISTORY of the local weather forecasting service.
CANADA - IN Toronto, experts say this is the FIRST TIME in the CN Tower’s history - construction was completed in 1976 - the structure has seen such an ice buildup.
3/5/07 -
Tropical Cyclone George - Australia - The amount of rain dumped on the Northern Territory over the last week SMASHED RECORDS.
CHINA - The STRONGEST MARCH SNOWSTORM IN 56 YEARS hit northeast China's Liaoning province.
3/4/07 -
AUSTRALIA - the city of Canberra has begun a multi-million-dollar clean-up after a FREAK SUPER STORM, ONE OF THE WORST IN THE ACT'S HISTORY, swept across the city dumping tonnes of hail and torrential rain.
3/2/07 -
NEW YORK - WORST FLOODING IN DECADES inundated Mamaroneck.
JAPAN - The Japanese capital has experienced its FIRST WINTER WITHOUT SNOW FOR 131 YEARS.
CALIFORNIA - Less than an inch of rain fell in downtown Los Angeles in February, helping make the current rain season the SECOND DRIEST ON RECORD.
INDIA - Thursday’s showers in the city of Chandigarh BROKE ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS of rainfall available for the months of January, February and March. The Met department recorded 90.2 mm rainfall. The previous highest for these three months had been 67.5 mm, recorded in March 1982.
3/1/07 -
AUSTRALIA - Canberra SET A RECORD FOR THE MOST THUNDERSTORMS IN A SINGLE MONTH, with 14 so far in February.
VIETNAM - This February was the HOTTEST IN 50 YEARS.
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2/28/07 -
AUSTRALIA - Adelaide has sweltered through its HOTTEST FEBRUARY FOR THE PAST 100 YEARS.
EUROPE - This winter in central Europe has been the WARMEST ON RECORD.
2/27/07 -
WISCONSIN -This past weekend's storm SET A RECORD for the first time more than four inches of snowfall has been recorded on three consecutive days - the historical records date back to 1869. The National Weather Service reports six inches of snowfall for Madison on Friday, 4.4 inches for Saturday and another 4.9 inches on Sunday, for a weekend total of 15.3 inches.
PENNSYLVANIA - The sleet that fell on Feb. 13 and 14 was a wild and extraordinary event. It was ONE OF THE MOST DISRUPTIVE NORTHEAST STORMS ON RECORD.
BOLIVIA - Residents of Trinidad, capital of the northern department of Beni, may be evacuated due to the danger of flooding, something UNPRECEDENTED IN THE HISTORY OF THE REGION. The roadway encircling the city that acts as a dike to protect it from flooding was just 40 centimeters short of being washed over.
WIND -
2/26/07 -
TEXAS - it has been about 20 YEARS SINCE WESTERLY WINDS WERE AS STRONG as they were Saturday.
2/25/07 -
VERMONT - Engineers say it's the FIRST TIME SINCE RECORDS HAVE BEEN KEPT that the river in Montpelier has been so packed with ice in what is called a "freeze up jam".
2/23/07 -
MONTANA and much of the rest of the U.S. West are seeing ONE OF THE WORST AVALANCHE SEASONS IN YEARS and there still is a lot of winter left.
2/22/07 -
MOZAMBIQUE - Cyclone Favio is the STRONGEST TO EVER HIT the southern African country.
2/20/07 -
Weeks of rain and unprecedented high temperatures, in central Russia. Temperatures registered in Russia this winter since November 20 have TOPPED EVERY RECORD.
2/19/07 -
FLORIDA - A freeze Friday night BROKE A RECORD in place since 1920.
2/18/07 -
CHINA - Beijingers will celebrate their WARMEST SPRING FESTIVAL ON RECORD. The highest temperature on the eve of the festival will reach 10 degrees centigrade, making it the warmest festival eve since the station began to keep records in 1951.
2/16 -
AUSTRALIA - 5.2-magnitude earthquake off Shark Bay, 800km north of Perth was THE BIGGEST RECORDED IN THE AREA IN 50 YEARS.
It was by far the HOTTEST JANUARY EVER. Records on the planet's temperature have been kept since 1880. Spurred on by unusually warm Siberia, Canada, northern Asia and Europe, the world's land areas were 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than a normal January. That didn't just nudge past the old record set in 2002, but broke that mark by 0.81 degrees, which meteorologists said is a lot, since such records often are broken by hundredths of a degree at a time. "That's PRETTY UNUSUAL FOR A RECORD TO BE BROKEN BY THAT MUCH." The scientists went beyond their normal doublechecking and took the UNUSUAL step of running computer climate models "just to make sure that what we're seeing was real." From one standpoint it is not unusual to have a new record because we've become accustomed to having records broken." But January was A BIGGER JUMP THAN THE WORLD HAS SEEN IN ABOUT 10 YEARS.
2/15 -
VERMONT - A new 24-hour SNOWFALL RECORD was set when Burlington received 25.3 inches. The previous record was set on Jan. 14, 1934, when the city received 23.1 inches. "This is just phenomenal." The storm was Burlington's BIGGEST FEBRUARY SNOWSTORM SINCE 1883. With a RECORD 17.4 inches of snowfall in the Queen City at 6 p.m., it surpassed the previous February snowstorm record of 16.8 inches set in 1995.
INDIA - Shimla, over the last few days, has recorded over two-and-a-half feet of snow. It is the MAXIMUM IN 17 YEARS.
2/13/07 -
NEW YORK - the 11 feet, 9 inches of snow that fell in Redfield was a NEW STATE 'SINGLE EVENT' RECORD.
2/12/07 -
BULGARIA - RECORD-BREAKING HEAT - Air temperature in the Bulgarian northeastern town of Veliko Tarnovo reached 20 degrees C (68 F).
2/11/07 -
PAKISTAN - The recent spell of rain and hailing in Noshanki and Quetta BROKE THE SEVEN-YEAR RECORD.
2/7/07 -
CHINA - Beijing is experiencing its WARMEST WINTER FOR 30 YEARS.
2/6 -
NEVADA - it was a RECORD 69 degrees in Reno. That's two degrees warmer than the old record set 56 years ago in 1951.
TURKEY - Nearly the whole of Turkey has been experiencing ONE OF ITS DRIEST SPELLS IN MEMORY, courtesy of a large anti-cyclone that just won’t go away.
MALTA - The past month was the WARMEST JANUARY ON RECORD.
2/4 -
FLORIDA - South Florida SET RECORDS for summer-like weather - temperatures hit 89 degree in Ft. Lauderdale, breaking the previous Groundhog Day record by three degrees, and tied the current record of 87 degrees in Miami.
AUSTRALIA - the summer wildfire season is ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE ON RECORD, with most of the country gripped by its WORST DROUGHT IN A CENTURY.
SPAIN is suffering its WORST DROUGHT EVER. Its been three years of drought now.
The MOST POWERFUL TORNADO TO HIT FLORIDA IN NEARLY A DECADE.
2/2/07 -
CALIFORNIA experienced one of its driest Januarys on RECORD. The state's snowpack is 57 percent below normal levels, and the northern Sierra Nevada only saw about 17 percent of its normal precipitation in January, among the region's driest EVER RECORDED. Sacramento recorded its driest January since it began keeping records in the mid-1800s. The city is on track to having its driest year ever, receiving only about 20 percent of the rainfall expected at this time of year.
OREGON - this January will rank as the driest on RECORD at the Baker City Municipal Airport. Precipitation fell on just two days.
EUROPE - Many European countries had their WARMEST JANUARY SINCE RECORDS BEGAN. In the Netherlands, January temperatures were the highest since they were first measured in 1706. January was set to be the warmest on record in Swiss cities and in most parts of Austria. Hungary also said January had been its warmest on record. Britain said this month could be the second warmest, with 1916 holding the record.
ALASKA - Anchorage recorded a high of 48 degrees, two degrees warmer than the previous RECORD HIGH of 46 degrees in 1977.
CANADA - January logged three weather RECORDS in Victoria, British Columbia - The first seven days brought almost 150 mm of rain, making this the WETTEST START TO JANUARY ON RECORD.
2/1 -
MISSOURI - the number of tornadoes in 2006 cracked the 100 mark for the first time in history. There were 102 documented tornadoes throughout the state. That SHATTERS THE PREVIOUS RECORD of 84 that was set in 2003. The state average of tornadoes is between 20 and 28.
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1/31/07 -
TASMANIA - 2006 was extraordinarily dry across the state, with some sites reporting their DRIEST YEAR FOR 100 YEARS. Tasmania also experienced some record hot and cold temperatures. EVERY MONTH but September saw a long-term monthly rainfall or temperature RECORD BROKEN. May saw the lowest temperature for the month ever recorded. June experienced the lowest total rainfall. October set records for the hottest day, coldest night, warmest night and lowest rainfall. The strongest gust for the year came on 21 September with 174 km/h at Maatsuyker Island. Macquarie Island had one of its warmest and driest Aprils on record. At the other extreme, Macquarie Island had its coldest November on record.
1/30/07 -
Mountain glaciers are shrinking three times faster than they were in the 1980s.With the scenarios predicted, we will enter CONDITIONS WHICH WE HAVE NOT SEEN IN THE PAST 10,000 YEARS, and PERHAPS CONDITIONS WHICH MANKIND HAS NEVER EXPERIENCED."
UTAH - Sunday was another bad day of heavy smog inhalation across the Wasatch Front, as the RECORD BREAKING inversion continued to sock the entire area. Health experts say this is THE WORST WINTER FOR UTAH'S INVERSION EVER.
1/23/07 -
CANADA - RECORD-BREAKING SNOW in Whistler, British Columbia. The Whistler resort has received 893cm (29.41feet) of snow since early November. More snow is in the forecast.

BULGARIA - RECORD-BREAKING TEMPERATURES surprised even experts from the National Institute of meteorology and hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sunday with highs in the mid-twenties in the dead of winter. December was unseasonably warm, too, the HOTTEST SINCE 1988. Unsurprisingly, that succession of warm months ensured that 2006 WAS THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD in Bulgaria. And so far this year, if the weather continues as it has been, they will be in for the WARMEST JANUARY SINCE RECORDS BEGAN too.
1/24 -
SPAIN -Many Spanish ski resorts are experiencing their WORST SEASON FOR YEARS due to the high temperatures and lack of snow.
1/22 -
NEVADA - RECORD-BREAKING COLD - Chilly Las Vegas was shivering last week beneath a blanket of cold the likes of which it hasn't seen for a decade, setting a RECORD FOR THE LOWEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE EVER FOR A JANUARY 14.
CYPRUS - The island has experienced 25 per cent less rainfall than is usual for the time of year. The recent lack of rain has caused the Yermasoyia dam to be at its LOWEST LEVEL IN ITS HISTORY.
1/21 -
Parts of the North Atlantic are setting WINTER HEAT RECORDS. Temperatures in Arctic waters off northern Europe at the tail end of the Gulf Stream, for example, are about 6.7C, the HIGHEST FOR EARLY JANUARY SINCE RECORDS BEGAN in the 1930s. "There have been MANY RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES in recent months. In Lista by the North Sea, for example, water temperatures were a RECORD 8.5C, 2-3 degrees above normal for January.
Poland and the Czech Republic were two of the latest countries to have been hit by the storm (Cyclone Cyril) that has swept northern Europe leaving at least 43 people dead. Winds hit hurricane force in Germany, the WORST IN NEARLY A DECADE. ( Photos )
AUSTRALIA - Wild rain has lashed South Australia in the last three days, isolating several communities. Worst hit was Hawker, 370km north of Adelaide, where 150mm fell in three days, seven times the January average, cutting off the town. It is THE BIGGEST WET FOR AT LEAT 16 YEARS. It could well be THE HEAVIEST TO HIT South Australia's Flinders Ranges since European settlement.
1/19 -
NORTHERN EUROPE - A violent storm lashing northern Europe has hit the Netherlands and Germany after passing over Britain and France. The winds were THE HIGHEST RECORDED SINCE JANUARY 1990. In Germany, hurricane-force winds claimed at least seven lives. Meteorologists in Germany said the storm was THE WORST IN FIVE YEARS, with winds gusting up to 190km/h (118mph). The Dutch weather service said the country had NOT SEEN SUCH A STORM FOR YEARS.
1/18/07
This cold spell in California is ONE OF THE MOST SEVERE RECORDED IN THE LAST 57 YEARS.
1/17 -
AUSTRALIA - The bushfires are UNPRECEDENTED. "This is the WORST BUSHFIRE CONDITIONS WE HAVE EVER HAD in Victoria's history."
RUSSIA - The consistently mild temperatures being registered throughout European Russia this winter are UNLIKE ANYTHING EXPERIENCED BEFORE.
1/16 -
UNITED KINGDOM - FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES, the temperature in the region has failed to dip below zero degrees centigrade so far into the month.
The ocean right now is about as warm as it is in April, even hitting 50 degrees off Cape May, New Jersey on Sunday. The average water temperature in January is 37 degrees. On New Year's Day, the water temperature at a buoy 26 miles southeast of Cape May BROKE A RECORD FOR JANUARY. The temperature reached 52 degrees there, besting the previous record of 50 set in 2002 and 1991 "That's crazy because the ocean is . . . very tough to chill and to warm at times, unlike the atmosphere." Sea surface temperatures are "running high just about everywhere on the East Coast" and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. I can't remember it being like this, in all the years I've been studying this" - since the late 1970s. "We've NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE."
1/14 -
CALIFORNIA - citrus growers braced for potential disaster Saturday as temperatures across the state dropped to RECORD LOWS.
1/13/07 -
UNITED KINGDOM - traditionally the coldest day of the year, the 13th was ONE OF THE WARMEST ON RECORD. Temperatures averaged 12C, above the seasonal average by 9C. "The Crocus tomassinianus was in flower on New Year's Day, which is A RECORD.
1/12 -
AUSTRALIA - Today was the national capital's HOTTEST JANUARY DAY IN ALMOST 40 YEARS.
RUSSIA - Moscow's UNUSUALLY WARM winter weather continued to break records Thursday as temperatures hit 5.3 Celsius, making it the HOTTEST JANUARY 11 IN MORE THAN 50 YEARS.
CALIFORNIA - the WORST COLD SNAP IN FOUR DECADES.

CANADA - For a second straight day Thursday in British Columbia, severe weather wreaked havoc. "It's been ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WEATHER WINTERS ANYONE HAS SEEN IN RECENT MEMORY...There's been a trio of weather wars: rain, snow and wind."
1/11 -
KANSAS - The mercury reached 70 in Wichita, BREAKING THE RECORD of 66, set in 1911.
Comet McNaughtis now the BRIGHTEST COMET IN 30 YEARS. Solar heating will continue to puff up the comet, causing it to brighten even more. It COULD BECOME ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST COMETS IN CENTURIES.
1/10/07 -
U.S. saw its WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD in 2006. Worldwide, 2006 was the sixth warmest year on record. Five states — Minnesota, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire — had their warmest December on record and no state was colder than average in December.
U.S. - January 6 was the 30th consecutive day with a high temperature of 32 degrees F or greater in Madison, Wisconsin, BREAKING ITS WINTER RECORD of 29 days.
1/9 -
SCOTLAND - Last year was the HOTTEST EVER RECORDED in Scotland. July was the WARMEST MONTH EVER RECORDED NORTH OF THE BORDER, with an average temperature 0.6C above the previous hottest July, in 1983. September 2006 was the HOTTEST SEPTEMBER EVER in Scotland and in the UK, nearly 3C warmer than the average. November and December were THE WETTEST EVER - respectively with 244mm (10in) and 270mm (10.6in) of rain. THE FOUR WARMEST YEARS EVER RECORDED were the last four years.
SOUTH OF SCOTLAND - A strong earthquake has been clearly felt on the Shetland island of Unst. Measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale, it was the LARGEST EARTHQUAKE OF ITS KIND IN THE AREA FOR 10 YEARS.
1/8 -
CONNECTICUT - The National Weather Service says Saturday marked the WARMEST JANUARY DAY ON RECORD in Greater Hartford in more than 100 years. The thermometer at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks hit 72 degrees Saturday afternoon, shattering the previous January high of 58 degrees set in 1929.
WISCONSIN - The National Weather Service's Milwaukee/Sullivan office saw a RECORD NUMBER of 413 SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS in 2006, ranging from severe thunderstorms to flash floods. That shattered the station's record of 240 events set in 2005. On April 13, three hailstorms combined to create the COSTLIEST STORM DAY IN WISCONSIN HISTORY.
TIBET - Tibet is experiencing RECORD-BREAKING TEMPERATURES over the last couple of days.
Earlier in the week, howling winds and torrential rain battered coastal towns Thursday in the WORST STORM FOR 30 YEARS in Western Australia.
1/7 -
CALIFORNIA - Meteorologists say it's ONE OF THE STRONGEST WIND STORMS IN YEARS.
U.S. - The National Weather Service reported RECORD or near-record TEMPERATURES across the region Saturday after a long warm spell. Albany International Airport hit 71 degrees. In New Jersey, ALL-TIME RECORDS set in 1950 were broken in Newark, Trenton and Atlantic City.
COLORADO - Monster avalanche in Colorado takes no lives - The BIGGEST AVALANCHE IN COLORADO'S HISTORY.
UTAH - Thursday, Salt Lake City broke its DAILY MAXIMUM SNOWFALL RECORD when it received nearly 6 inches of snow. This breaks the city's old record of 3.3 inches of snow which was set back in 1929. Meanwhile, ANOTHER RECORD WAS BROKEN following the major snow storm. Salt Lake City received 0.44 inches of water from the melted snow. The old record was 0.27 inches of snow set back in 1978.
PAKISTAN / KASHMIR - Like most other parts of the province, Provincial Metropolis remained in the grip of cold wave on Saturday with mercury dipping below the freezing point in the city for THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1935.
1/6/07 -
NEW YORK - biologists saw eastern tiger salamander eggs the first week in December - the EARLIEST YET RECORDED.
1/5 -
THE ARCTIC - 2006 was a year of weird, warm weather across the eastern Arctic - On Feb. 26, temperatures reached 6.8 C in Pangnirtung and 4.2 C in Iqaluit, breaking a 60-YEAR MONTHLY RECORD for the capital. In Iqaluit, temperatures reached 6.8 C on Oct. 15, and 6.9 C on Oct. 16, which also BROKE RECORDS that day. On Oct. 17, Grise Fiord’s high reached 6 C, which is a full 20 C above the average high for that date. Resolute Bay hit .8 C. This broke a RECORD of -1.4 C set in 2002 for that date, and set a NEW EXTREME MAXIMUM for the month. And temperatures hit NEW HIGHS in Europe’s circumpolar region. April weather readings for Norway’s High Arctic Svalbard Islands produced new RECORDS. A temperature of 7.5 C in Longyearbyen in April was the highest temperature RECORDED on Svalbard since measurements began in 1912.
AUSTRALIA - A major storm brought high winds and heavy rain to the south coast of Western Australia on Thursday after remnants of tropical cyclone Isobel combined with a strong front to create extreme weather. It is believed to be THE WORST STORM TO HIT WESTERN AUSTRALIA IN 30 YEARS.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA'S water storage level has dropped to its LOWEST LEVEL IN NINE YEARS, at just 38.7 per cent of capacity.
CANADA - RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES were set in more than a dozen Manitoba communities on Wednesday.
WISCONSIN - Wednesday broke a 57-YEAR-OLD RECORD when the mercury hit 51, topping 1950's record high of 46.
New Jersey had its WARMEST DECEMBER SINCE RECORDS STARTED being kept 111 years ago.
1/3 -
CANADA - RECORD-BREAKING HIGH TEMPERATURES on the first day of 2007 in Toronto. Toronto just emerged from THE WARMEST DECEMBER ON RECORD. The city also SET A NEW LOW FOR SNOWFALL IN 2006. The 30 centimetres that fell was about half of the previous record for the least snow in a year.
New York had no snow this past December for the FIRST TIME IN 129 YEARS since 1877.
1/1 -
KANSAS - Beginning 2006, nothing was typical. It was the WARMEST JANUARY ON RECORD for the state with temperatures 15 degrees above average. December will go down on the record as ONE OF THE WETTEST for southwest Kansas.
NEW MEXICO - Mother Nature slammed New Mexico with a RECORD-SETTING SNOWSTORM.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - The December just finished was the COLDEST FOR AT LEAST TWO DECADES. The average maximum temperature last month was just 23.0C, which is 4.7C down on December 2005.
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12/31/06 -
MINNESOTA - The drought conditions have dropped Lake Superior’s level to a degree NOT SEEN SINCE THE 1920s. And without an increase in precipitation soon, the lake could break even that 80-year old record. Climatologists in the state are beginning to watch water levels on inland lakes and streams as well, since many are also experiencing LEVELS NOT SEEN IN DECADES.
NEW ZEALAND - Wild, unseasonal weather is marking the final days of 2006 - an apt ending to ONE OF THE COLDEST YEARS ON RECORD.
GAZA, PALESTINE - The Gaza Strip, home to 1.2 million Palestinians, has faced an UNPRECEDENTED RAINFALL this week.
AUSTRALIA - Hobart has experienced its DRIEST YEAR ON RECORD. The city's total rainfall for 2006 was just 343mm, well below the long-term annual average of 619mm. This made it significantly less rain than in the previous driest year, 1979, when 390mm fell.
SOUTH Australia has had one of its driest years on record. Just 16mm of rain fell in Adelaide during December, compared to a long-term average of 28mm, making it the driest December since 2002, when just 9mm fell in the city. If it wasn't for one quite unusual system, we would have been very close to experiencing our driest December on record.” Adelaide's total rainfall for 2006 was 280mm, half the long-term average of 563mm. On Christmas Day the temperature was just 18C, making it the coldest December day since 1993 and the COLDEST CHRISTMAS DAY ON RECORD.
AUSTRALIA - Bendigo is suffering the worst drought in recorded history, with 2006 rainfall figures indicating the worst five-year period since records began.
U.S. - This year of weather extremes, from incessant rain in the Northwest to chronic drought in the heartland and wildfires in the West, could go down as the second-warmest on record when it ends. The first 11 months of 2006 already were the second-warmest January-to-November since national record-keeping began in 1895. "The warmth has been incredible." Last January was so warm that North America had the second-lowest amount of snow on the ground for that month. Only January 1981 had less. Several major cities broke records this year: •Seattle had the most rainfall in a single month in November, topping its 73-year-old record with 15.63 inches — about three times the city's average for the month. •New York broke a 59-year-old record when 26.9 inches of snow blanketed the city Feb. 11-12. •Phoenix had a record 143 straight days without measurable rain before a March 11 downpour. The wet weather in Washington and Oregon is UNUSUAL because an El Niño climate pattern now in place normally would make it drier. "This El Niño we've got going right now is ONE OF THE WEIRDEST ONES THAT I'VE SEEN. We should not be having the weather we're having."
NETHERLANDS - Weather records tumbled all over the world in 2006, and the Netherlands was no exception. But the difference lies in the fact that the Dutch have been keeping records longer than most, since 1706. The first 300-YEAR RECORD was surpassed in July, when the average daily temperature hit 22.3 degrees Celsius, by comparison with the 17.4 degrees regarded as normal. The measuring station Westdorpe recorded a scorching - for the Netherlands - maximum of 37.1 degrees on July 19, BREAKING ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS. At the De Bilt national measuring station in the province of Utrecht, it was the SUNNIEST JULY SINCE 1904. A RECORD AMOUNT OF RAIN fell in August - although this time it was only of around 100 years' standing, as accurate measurements do not reach as far back as with temperature. The average of 184 millimetres that fell in the month smashed the previous record of 152 millimetres set in 1969. September saw ANOTHER 300-year TEMPERATURE RECORD fall by the wayside. The average daily temperature came in at 17.9 degrees, compared with the normal 14.2 degrees. The ensuing autumn was the warmest - or 'softest' as the Dutch like to say - since 1706. The average daily temperature for September, October and November came in at 13.6 degrees, SMASHING THE PREVIOUS RECORD by more than one degree. The last 10 days of November were the WARMEST EVER RECORDED for that period. The year as a whole had been the WARMEST IN 300 YEARS, with an average of 11.2 degrees. The record was particularly noteworthy, as the first three months of the year had been colder than usual. And it pointed to perhaps the most alarming record of all. On November 1, as the worst storm of the year passed, a water level of 4.83 metres above Normal Amsterdam Level, was measured at Delfzijl on the far northern coast. 'A water level as high as this HAS NEVER BEFORE BEEN RECORDED."
12/29/06 -
MISSOURI - This year's shipping season on the Missouri River was the WEAKEST IN 55 YEARS as low water levels forced companies to find other avenues for freight. In Kansas City, the river has hit RECORD LOWS.
RUSSIA - This year Russia has registered the HIGHEST NUMBER OF UNFAVORABLE AND DANGEROUS NATURAL PHENOMENA IN THE HISTORY OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION. European Russia experienced RECORD WARM temperatures this month.
12/27 -
NEW ZEALAND - it the COLDEST START TO CHRISTMAS IN THE CAPITAL SINCE RECORDS BEGAN.
CANADA - January 2006 was the warmest January on record, going back to 1952-53 and there were RECORD-SETTING warm temperatures in December.
AUSTRALIA - UNUSUALLY chilly weather in Queensland during the traditionally white-hot Christmas period has been BREAKING RECORDS. Virtually every location under a cloud band hovering over the state's southeast through to the central highlands had either stooped to a new low or was close to eclipsing records.
TAIWAN One person was killed and 24 others wounded in Hengchun in what is known as the LARGEST QUAKE IN A CENTURY (7.1).
SCOTLAND - Residents in a Scottish town reported their houses shaking violently and windows rattling yesterday after the MOST POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE IN BRITAIN THIS YEAR was recorded in Dumfries. The 3.5-magnitude tremor struck the town just before 10.45am and lasted for about ten seconds.
12/26 -
Evidence is mounting: the next solar cycle is going to be a big one. Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011 "looks like its going to be ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE CYCLES SINCE RECORD-KEEPING BEGAN ALMOST 400 YEARS AGO."

MALAYSIA - THE WORST FLOODS IN 37 YEARS have displaced nearly 100,000 people. The floods followed this week's HEAVIEST RAINFALL IN A CENTURY.
NEW ZEALAND - The thermometer should have hit the 20s around much of Canterbury on Christmas Day but this is still shaping up as THE COLDEST DECEMBER ON RECORD. This month 96mm of rain has fallen in the city of Christchurch, compared with the long-term average of 49mm. But it is the cold that has been most noticeable. Christchurch's mean temperature this month has been 12 degrees, 4 degrees below the average. "That could be a record-breaker." In Australia on the other hand, Melbourne, which reached 36deg on Thursday, had ITS HOTTEST NIGHT IN 45 YEARS, with temperatures staying around 29deg.
NEW YORK - The weather has been so unseasonably warm experts are wondering if this month will be the first December without snow in Central Park since 1891. There was about 0% chance of snow for Christmas.
12/22 -
CANADA - Places like Quebec City and Thunder Bay, Ontario, "are going to see, for THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, a green Christmas." So will most of British Columbia, most of Central Canada and the Atlantic region.
It’s the same story all across Europe - lack of snow. Bookies are so sceptical that a single snowflake will fall on London's weather centre on December 25 that they were offering odds at a whopping 16-1, the LONGEST THEY HAVE EVER OFFERED.
12/21 -
MALAYSIA - More than 21,000 people have been evacuated in Malaysia's southern Johor state after continuous rains, causing what officials say are the WORST FLOODS IN YEARS & THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IN A CENTURY.
12/20 -
FLORIDA - A downpour on the 14th deluged Palm Beach with 7.63 inches of rain. It was DOUBLE THE PREVIOUS RAINFALL RECORD of 3.75 inches in 1955.
SINGAPORE - Singapore on Tuesday was hit by the THIRD HIGHEST RAINFALL RECORDED IN 75 YEARS.
MONTANA - Montana's WIND RECORD was blown away. A wind gauge on Snowslip Mountain, just east of the Continental Divide along Highway 2, clocked a gust of 164 mph Wednesday, the 13th. That's akin to a hurricane. A category 5 storm carries sustained winds of more than 155 mph. And it blew away the old state record of 143 mph set in 2002.
More than two inches of rain- 2.17 inches - was recorded at the National Weather Service office in Seattle. That BROKE THE RECORD of about an inch-and-a-quarter (1.24 inches) set on December 14th in 2002.
CANADA - Wind gusts at Race Rocks, off the Island's southwest tip, reached a RECORD 158 kilometres an hour as the third intense wind storm in a week plowed a trail of destruction through southern Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland on the 15th.
RUSSIA - is having its WARMEST DECEMBER IN 136 YEARS, since 1870.
CANADA - Quebec City, for the FIRST TIME IN RECORDED WEATHER HISTORY, will not have any snow on the ground for Christmas. Average temperatures are breaking all the time. This week in Kenora the first day of winter is looking as though it might break a warm weather record. The warmest past temperature was recorded Dec. 21, 2003 with an average of 1.7C. This Thursday, the forecast is calling for a high of 3C, which will make it almost double that record, if what’s predicted comes through Kenora.
DELAWARE - RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES hit Downstate Monday. The National Weather Service reported record high temperatures of 71 degrees in Georgetown and 70 in Wilmington. The previous records for the date were 64 in Georgetown in 1992 and 66 in Wilmington in 1990.
SPAIN - This year is on track to be the WARMEST ON RECORD in Spain, a country which was already hot before global warming set in. So far this year, temperatures have been 1.46 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 average as a searing summer gave way to mild autumn and winter.
EUROPE - It was the coldest of times and the hottest of times in the Baltic states with weather records being set all year round. 2006 started out with record lows that by the summer turned into record highs. The year ended in a similarly topsy-turvy manner with December being the warmest on record.
CALIFORNIA - Southern California remains in the grip of a cold spell with near-record breaking low temperatures. RECORDS WERE BROKEN in many areas.
CHINA - people are already starting to feel the effects of a changing climate. Chinese coastlines experienced some of the WORST TYPHOONS AND FLOODS ON RECORD this summer.
SCOTLAND - Scotland has not had a dry day now for more than 40 days. It was the WETTEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD. July was the hottest month ever recorded and it was the warmest September. Autumn was also the warmest for that season on record. The whole of this year was the warmest on record - amazing when January to April was actually colder than normal.
12/19 -
CANADA - On Thursday and Friday, TWO RECORDS WERE BROKEN when the temperature reached 10C and 11.8C, respectively.
12/18 -
QATAR - there are all indications that Qatar has received its HIGHEST-EVER RAINFALL during the current season. Long time residents told the newspaper that they had never witnessed such a heavy rain in Qatar during the last four decades. The season's RECORD RAIN rain has virtually thrown the life out-of-gear in the Industrial area. With the minimum temperature dipping to a RECORD 10 degree Celsius.
12/15 -
FLORIDA - West Palm Beach received about 6 inches of rain before noon Thursday, breaking a 51-YEAR-OLD RAINFALL RECORD of 3.75 inches for the date, set in 1955.
The globe's sixth warmest year on record. Europe had its warmest summer on record. Australia had its warmest spring on record. Canada experienced its warmest winter and warmest spring since its national records began in 1948. Australia has had its hottest decade on record.
12/14 -
SCOTLAND - Scotland has suffered the WETTEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD, and there is more bad weather to come. Worst hit has been Glasgow, which has endured the HIGHEST LEVELS OF RAINFALL ON RECORD SINCE THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
In Britain - A SUCCESSION OF RECORDS DATING BACK TO 1659 HAVE BEEN BROKEN. This year has been the warmest since records began, boasted the hottest month on record in July, the warmest ever September, hottest April to October and the mildest autumn, leading into a warm and wet December. The figures show 2006 has boasted:
* The warmest September since 1729 at16.6C - 2.9C above the 30-year average
* The hottest July at 19.9C - 3.4C above average
* The sunniest November on record
* A total of 54 per cent more sunshine across England and Wales than average.
EUROPE - the average temperature for 2006 was almost certainly the HIGHEST EVER SEEN IN 347 YEARS of measurements. The average temperature for the year up to 13 December stands at 10.84C. In the 1950s, the CET showed an average of about 9.4C. "This year sees the highest average temperature recorded since the CET series began in 1659, and the rise above the average is significantly higher than that for the two hottest years we have experienced." Among the OTHER RECORDS set were:
the warmest ever April to October growing season, with a mean temperature of 14.6C
the warmest month on record - July, which saw a mean temperature of 19.7C
the warmest ever September, with an average of 16.8C
the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK during July - 36.5C, at Wisley
the warmest ever autumn, with a mean temperature of 12.6C
the highest July temperature ever recorded in Wales - 34.6C at Gogerddan
even though temperatures were cooled in the first half of the year by La Nina conditions in the Pacific Ocean. The top 10 warmest years recorded globally have all occurred during the last 12 years.
Russia - Four ALL-TIME HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS have been registered in Russia since the start of December.
CALIFORNIA - T RECORD RAINFALL pounded San Mateo County early Tuesday morning.
12/13 -
TASMANIA - Conditions continue to deteriorate in Tasmania after RECORD LOW RAINFALL AND RIVER FLOWS. The State is experiencing ONE OF ITS WORST SEASONS IN 100 YEARS.
TEXAS - Drought Having Major Impact On Lake Water Levels - it's been 42 years, since 1964, since Lake Travis has been this low in a December.
JAPAN - Iwojima may be headed for eruption - a 12-cm elevation in the land on the southeastern region of the island in the last month, the BIGGEST INCREASE SINCE 1997 when it began taking measurements.
SWEDEN - One of the WARMEST DECEMBERS SINCE RECORDS STARTED.
EUROPE - Alpine ski resorts are churning out artificial snow, daisies are flowering by the Kremlin in Moscow and retailers are fretting that Europeans are simply too warm to go Christmas shopping with a RECORD mild winter. One historian says that Europe has just had its warmest autumn in 500 years. In Russia, record December temperatures have kept bears from hibernating.Usually gripped by ice, Moscow basked at a record 7.7 Celsius (45.86F) on Dec. 7. In the Netherlands, the Dutch meteorological institute said 2006 was likely to be the warmest year in three centuries.2006 had the WARMEST AUTUMN SINCE COLUMBUS sailed the Atlantic, about 2C (3.6F) warmer than the long-term average. The autumn beat the record-warm autumns of 1772, 1938 and 2000.
MEGA-FIRES - This past wildfire season in the U.S. was the most severe and expensive on record.
SCOTLAND - Almost half of the rainfall expected for the Glasgow area for December fell last night and early today. The torrential rain is a repeat of November's weather, which normally brings 105mm of rain. But last month Glasgow had 300mm (almost 12in) – the HIGHEST FIGURE IN 100 YEARS.
12/12 -
A solar tsunami has been caught in the act of rolling across the face of the sun. The UNUSUAL shock wave, clocked at about 700,000 miles per hour, was triggered by a huge Dec. 6 flare that erupted from a rowdy Earth-sized sunspot during what is otherwise a relatively quiet time for the sun. "This is clearly a unique event. I don't think we've ever seen a wave of that magnitude." Normally when shock waves are seen on the sun, they tend to be short-lived, narrowly directed and seen in the super hot outer "corona" of the sun's atmosphere. This tsunami, however, was seen expanding through the much less hot chromosphere, just below the outer corona, with an almost perfectly circular wave front — like that of a stone dropped in a pond. "In this case there was this humongous explosion that caused the waves. It took about 30 or 40 minutes to cover the Sun." (event animation)
12/10 -
SOMALIA, KENYA, ETHIOPIA - floods, coming so quickly after a long drought, have combined with years of conflict to make this ONE OF THE WORST HUMANITARIAN CRISES IN THE WORLD.
The WORST FLOODING IN YEARS is threatening up to 1.8 million people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
AUSTRALIA - Melbourne has endured its HOTTEST DECEMBER DAY FOR 53 YEARS. The mercury soared to 42.1 degrees Celsius in Melbourne at 2.45pm (AEDT) today as bushfires raged across much of the state. That made it Melbourne's hottest December day since December 20, 1953, when the temperature also hit 42.1.
The EPA, has RECORDED ONE IF ITS HIGHEST LEVELS OF SMOKE over Melbourne, higher than the levels caused by the infamous 2003 bushfires that burned out much of the state's north-east. "Clearly those in regional centres across the state are being inundated by high particle levels ... these levels are AMONG THE HIGHEST WE'VE RECORDED and thus far have certainly gone above those observed in the 2003 fires."
"It's the WORST DROUGHT ON RECORD for Victoria."

BRITAIN - THIS MONTH IS LIKELY TO BE THE STORMIEST DECEMBER IN 50 YEARS.
QATAR - this December is all set to create another record for Doha with the HIGHEST RAINFALL IN THE PAST 42 YEARS.
12/8 -
U.S. - the last front which slipped through the North Bay on the west coast on its way south and east played all sorts of havoc on its relentless march to the Atlantic seaboard. Snowfalls in Oklahoma and Missouri set RECORDS FOR BOTH DEPTH AND UNSEASONAL EARLINESS as up to 18 inches of the white stuff were dumped in several locations.
12/6 -
AUSTRALIA - Firefighters in Victoria are readying themselves for what the Premier says will be ONE OF THEIR WORST WEEKENDS EVER FOR BUSHFIRES. In a single weekend, the fire ground could expand to 600,000ha of forest and cleared land - half the devastation caused by the ENTIRE 2002-03 summer bushfires.
EUROPE - It is WARMER in Europe's Alpine region now THAN AT ANY TIME IN THE PAST 1,300 YEARS.
12/5 -
MIDDLE EAST, QATAR - a RECORD DOWNPOUR.
OHIO - ONE OF THE WORST FLOODS IN RECENT MEMORY.
12/4 -
MINNESOTA - Lake Superior's late-autumn water levels are at their LOWEST IN 80 YEARS. The lake plummeted from near normal levels last spring to almost a foot below normal in the fall - hitting its lowest level since November 1925. If the drought continues into next year, Lake Superior could drop to its lowest recorded level ever.
GLOBAL WARMING - Like many places, Austria has had the MILDEST AUTUMN SINCE RECORDS BEGAN and many ski resorts have delayed the season's start. Renowned for frosty winters, Moscow started the calendar winter on Dec. 1 with the WARMEST DECEMBER DAY SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1879 - 4.5 degrees Celsius (40.1 Fahrenheit). The Norwegian Meteorological Institute said it would start measuring pollen - mainly from hazel trees FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER BEFORE THE NEW YEAR.
SCOTLAND - "I've been waiting for confirmation that Glasgow has had its WETTEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD.
12/3 -
AUSTRALIA - VICTORIANS are bracing for ONE OF THE WORST SUMMERS OF FIRES.
OKLAHOMA - A RECORD-BREAKING SNOWSTORM across the southern U.S. region. The two-day storm dropped 10.4 inches of snow in Tulsa and 15 inches in Bartlesville, breaking a November snowfall record set in 1972 when 5.6 inches fell in Tulsa. "It's an historic storm." " It's not something we've seen in Oklahoma for a long time."
12/1 -
PENNSYLVANIA - Dec. 1 in Pittsburgh was 70 degrees - a new RECORD.
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11/30 -
OREGON - The month included the WETTEST SINGLE DAY EVER SEEN in Oregon - 14.30 inches of rain at Lees Camp, east of Tillamook, on Nov. 6-7. November also wiped out a RECORD that many thought couldn't be touched - the 49.57 inches of rain on Laurel Mountain in Oregon's Coast Range west of Salem in February 1996. By month's end, 49.59 inches of rain was recorded there.
PHILIPPINES - typhoon Durian devastated the island of Marinduque, uprooting trees and ripping the roofs from many homes. “It’s the WORST IN OUR HISTORY".
WASHINGTON - Wednesday began with RECORD COLD TEMPERATURES across much of western Washington. Seattle dropped to 18 overnight, breaking the old record of 22 set in 1975. They've now broken the RECORD FOR WETTEST MONTH EVER IN SEATTLE.
11/27 -
CHINA - November has been THE WARMEST ON RECORD FOR THE PAST 120 YEARS.
UNITED KINGDOM - An unseasonably warm November could help make this year ONE OF THE HOTTEST SINCE RECORDS BEGAN.
WASHINGTON - This is Longview's RAINIEST NOVEMBER, at least since 1931, when people started keeping track. Thursday night's rainfall, which brought the monthly total to 15.04 inches by 4 p.m. Friday, also made it the SECOND-WETTEST OF ANY MONTH ON RECORD.
11/21 -
Tropical storm Sergio has set the record for THE LONGEST RUNNING TROPICAL CYCLONE IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC FOR NOVEMBER.
KENYA, SOMALIA, ETHIOPIA - UN aid agencies warned Friday that the "grave" humanitarian situation in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia was set to get worse with more heavy rains on the way. The rainy season, THE HEAVIEST FOR 10 YEARS, was predicted to last well beyond October, when it usually ends, and continue until at least the end of the year. Between 1.5 and 1.8 million people were affected.
CANADA - Officials in the region described the levels of discolouration from suspended silt as "UNPRECEDENTED". The Greater Vancouver area has recently endured record rainfall, destructive winds and flooding.
AUSTRALIA - snow, which fell on the Granite Belt district near the Queensland-NSW border, was described by forecasters as a ONCE IN 50 YEARS PHENOMENON FOR NOVEMBER. The last time snow or sleet was reported there was in 1941. The "VERY UNUSUAL" weather had been caused by a cold front which had travelled from Victoria. It was the same front which caused violent hail and thunderstorms in Queensland's southeast and snow in Victoria and Tasmania on Wednesday. "The storms formed ahead of the cold front and now the cold front's coming through with very, very cold air. It happens, but not very frequently. The atmosphere keeps on repeating itself for extreme events every 50 or 100 years or so." Sydney, meanwhile, recorded its LOWEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURE IN NOVEMBER FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS – with the mercury dropping as low as 8C.
11/17 -
Rare mid-November cyclone - A Category 2 hurricane, Sergio carried winds of 98 mph (157 kph) and was moving slowly northwards. Its strength set a NEW RECORD - The eastern Pacific has not seen a storm as strong as Sergio so late in the season since officials began keeping records.
MONTANA - Glacier National Park - RECORD RAINFALLS of up to 11 inches.
WASHINGTON - With almost a foot of rain, it's already the WETTEST NOVEMBER EVER. If 3-plus inches fall in the next 15 days, it will be the soggiest month of all time, besting the 15.3-inch monsoon that was December 1933.
MAINE - ONE OF THE WETTEST FALLS ON RECORD.
11/16 -
Hurricane SERGIO - The UNUSUAL late-season storm was the second to form in the eastern Pacific this month. It was the first time since 1961 that two tropical storms have formed in the eastern Pacific in the month of November. Only five tropical storms have formed later in the year than Sergio.
11/12 -
WASHINGTON - Rain has pushed levees near breaking point: RECORD HIGH RIVER LEVELS.
11/10 -
NEW ZEALAND - In Queenstown,the SNOWFALL WAS THE HEAVIEST AND LOWEST FOR NOVEMBER IN 45 YEARS of record-keeping.
CANADA - Toronto weather experts say this fall has been the "SECOND MOST MISERABLE FALL ON RECORD," with rain and cloud making September and October the most gloomy since 1970.
11/9 -
COLORADO - RECORD HEAT across eastern Colorado on Wednesday. Denver set an ALL-TIME NOVEMBER HIGH of 80 degrees at 1:23 pm. Other locations with new record highs for the date include Pueblo at 85 degrees, which also set a new all-time record high.
CALIFORNIA - Long Beach highs reached 92 degrees, SHATTERING THE RECORD of 87 degrees set in 1961. Several records were broken across Southern California.
11/8 -
TAIWAN - typhoon winds fanned Hong Kong's BIGGEST HILL FIRE SEEN IN A DECADE.
WASHINGTON - RECORD RAINFALL brought heavy flooding to the Northwest.
The flooding may be THE WORST IN 50 YEARS.
SPAIN - The rain across Málaga province has been described the WETTEST DAY IN THE PROVINCE SINCE 1989.
CANADA - A flood watch is in effect as a RECORD RAINSTORM hits British Columbia. Emergency officials in BC say they are seeing SOME OF THE MOST INTENSE RAIN EVER RECORDED.
NEW ZEALAND - a mammoth piece of ice broke off the Ross or Amery ice shelves in Antarctica. "I think it would have to be ONE OF THE LARGEST ICEBERGS THAT CARVED OFF AN ICE SHELF IN RECENT YEARS."
AUSTRALIA suffering WORST DROUGHT IN A THOUSAND YEARS.
11/6 -
AUSTRALIA - Southern Victoria is experiencing a 10-YEAR RECORD LOW RAINFALL.
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10/31 -
AUSTRALIA - the DRIEST OCTOBER ON RECORD, large areas of NSW record low inflows.
AUSTRALIA - Sydney has experienced its DRIEST OCTOBER IN FOUR YEARS because of the El Nino phenomenon, experts say.
A major dam supplying Melbourne has dipped to its LOWEST LEVEL EVER.
10/29 -
UNITED KINGDOM - Hours of heavy rain saw the WORST FLOODING IN YEARS hit Sutherland.
10/9 -
THAILAND & MYANMAR are suffering their WORST MONSOON FLOODS IN 11 YEARS.
AUSTRALIA - Launceston experienced its COLDEST OCTOBER NIGHT ON RECORD at -1C.
10/27 -
COLORADO - we are seeing RECORD SNOWFALL for the month of October.”
10/26 -
AUSTRIA - The temperature in Austria in general and Vienna in particular has been the WARMEST FOR THE PAST 35 YEARS.
ENGLAND - Plants and flowers across Oxfordshire have been tricked into a second bloom as summery weather extends into the autumn months. This is Oxfordshire's LONGEST SUMMER SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1689, with record temperatures nationally in July and September.
10/25 -
INDIA - UNUSUAL autumn showers over the weekend have caused the temperature in the Himachal Pradesh capital to plummet to a RECORD LOW Monday, making it the COLDEST OCTOBER DAY IN 33 YEARS.
10/25 -
AUSTRALIA - A fire that has raged for almost seven weeks is one of 30 burning throughout the Top End, making this year's BUSHFIRE SEASON ONE OF THE WORST ON RECORD.
10/23 -
The Antarctic ozone hole has BROKEN TWO RECORDS this year for the size of its area and depth. "From September 21st to 30th, the average area of the ozone hole was the LARGEST EVER OBSERVED, at 10.6 million square miles." "The depleted layer has an UNUSUAL vertical extent this year, so it appears that the 2006 ozone hole will go down as a record-setter."
HEAT -
10/19 -
CHINA - The average monthly temperature between June and August reached 28.7 C, the HIGHEST RECORDED since 1873, and a whole 2.7 degrees hotter than any other summer in the past 100 years.
10/18 -
CANADA - In most of British Columbia rivers throughout the province, except for the Kootenays and the Columbia basin, are showing low to extremely low levels. "We're having RECORD LOWS all the way down the Fraser. We have a long record for the both the Thompson and Fraser, and this is the lowest they've been since 1912."
AUSTRALIA - "On any measure, this is an extreme drought. Climate change has hit in a much more dramatic manner that what we ever anticipated." What we're actually experiencing now was predicted to happen in about 2050. Around the country the picture's the same - dams which historically provided nearly 99 per cent of the country's urban water have fallen to RECORD LOW LEVELS. The rain's hardly falling and virtually every urban centre has been experiencing a RECORD WATER SHORTAGE.
10/17 -
AUSTRALIA - Livestock prices across NSW are in freefall, with farmers selling off RECORD numbers of sheep and cattle as the drought worsens.
Farmers are in despair as the drought sears the land - In some places the creeks have not flowed in a decade. The crippling effect of the fifth straight year of drought has some farmers shooting their animals.
UNITED KINGDOM - But this September was the HOTTEST SINCE RECORDS BEGAN 234 years ago. “Maximum temperatures this month have been three to four degrees above average in places.” There have also been longer than average hours of sunshine. Last month the UK average was 170 hours — 17 per cent above normal.
10/15 -
CANADA - Thousands of people in Ontario's Niagara region were still without electricity Saturday after a fall snowstorm Environment Canada describes as of "historic proportions." The outages continued more than 24 hours after a RECORD-BREAKING snowstorm roared across Lake Erie into southern Ontario and western New York.
NEW YORK - set a RECORD for the "snowiest" October day in the city of Buffalo.
10/13 -
AUSTRALIA - the HOTTEST OCTOBER DAY IN ALMOST 100 YEARS.
10/10 -
NEW ZEALAND - UNUSUAL weather - This year's winter has been called ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE.
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9/27 -
MELBOURNE Australia has experienced its WARMEST SEPTEMBER EVER RECORDED.
ADELAIDE Australia has just enjoyed its WARMEST SEPTEMBER FOR 62 YEARS and its second warmest on record.
BRISBANE Australia has recorded its COOLEST AND WETTEST SEPTEMBER IN AT LEAST 7 YEARS.
AUSTRALIA, the world's second-largest wheat exporter, cut its harvest forecast by 28 percent because of dry weather, helping to boost prices that are averaging the HIGHEST IN 10 YEARS. "Most cropping regions of Australia recorded below to very-much-below average winter rainfall, with some regions recording their LOWEST WINTER RAINFALL ON RECORD. Canola output will drop to 775,000 tons, the LOWEST IN 10 YEARS.
NEW ZEALAND - The country is being urged to be sun smart as an UNUSUAL weather event is expected to put OZONE LEVELS AT THEIR LOWEST EVER FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. It may only just be spring but a part of Antarctica's depleted ozone layer is expected to pass over New Zealand.
9/26 -
AUSTRALIA - THE MOST EXTREME WIND EXPERIENCE IN RECENT YEARS.
The Earth's rapid warming has pushed temperatures to their HOTTEST LEVEL IN NEARLY 12,000 YEARS and within a hair's breadth of a million years.
CALIFORNIA is experiencing ONE OF ITS WORST WILDFIRE SEASONS IN A DECADE, and the most brutal part of the season - fall - has only just begun.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA is coming out of THE DRIEST WINTER ON RECORD, leaving firefighters worried about the potential for wild scrub and forest blazes.
9/11 -
INDIA - Drought stalks Assam - The state has been hit hard by drought as a result of the MOST ERRATIC MONSOON IN OVER 100 YEARS.
RECORD WILDFIRES Ravage Mojave Desert - The deserts of Pike's Canyon in southern California's Mojave National Preserve had never had a recorded fire until this year.
Wildfires burn RECORD AMOUNT of US land - US acreage scorched by wildfires this year has reached a modern record of 8.8 million acres.
US - SUMMER HEAT WAVE MAKES 2006 THE WARMEST ON RECORD.
The LARGEST QUAKE (6.0) IN THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO IN 30 YEARS rattled windows from Louisiana to Southwest Florida.
9/10 -
PHILIPPINES - Mayon's lava flow in its 2006 eruption is the LONGEST IN ITS HISTORY, lasting 56 days as of September 8.
9/9 -
ARIZONA - RECORD RAINFALL.
9/7 -
VIETNAM - The HIGHEST EVER RAINFALL IN THE LAST 5 YEARS.
INDIANA - afternoon flooding UNPRECEDENTED.
ALASKA - Juneau sets RECORD for spring, summer days of rain.
9/7 -
AUSTRALIA - the coastal strip around Sydney experienced its WETTEST SEPTEMBER DAY IN MORE THAN 120 YEARS.
9/6 -
PENNSYLVANIA - This summer was ONE OF THE WETTEST IN RECENT YEARS with 25 percent more precipitation (16.7 inches) than normal for the period.
9/6 -
INDIA - Unprecedented rain in the Himalayas has led to heavy snowfall in large parts of Uttaranchal and Kashmir. In the Uttaranchal Himalayas, which usually gets snowfall in late October, the hills turned white after two days of snow during the first days of September, the FIRST TIME IN A DECADE that they had a white weekend.
9/6 -
CANADA - Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada's Pacific rain forest, usually receives about three metres of rain a year. It has had no serious rainfall since June and last month was the DRIEST AUGUST ON RECORD.
9/5 -
KASHMIR is facing its WORST EVER FLOOD CRISIS IN TWO DECADES with hundreds of villages and parts of capital Srinagar completely marooned.
9/4 -
AUSTRALIA - RECORD RAINFALL has lashed north Queensland over the past 48 hours.
9/1 -
CHINA - The major drought affecting millions of people in southwestern China is now being called "the WORST IN A CENTURY", and searing temperatures have set off uncontrollable fires.
The desert town of Barmer in Rajasthan, currently underwater from flooding, has not seen floods in AT LEAST THE LAST 200 YEARS.
AUSTRALIA - LOWEST RAINFALL ON RECORD, DRIEST WINTER EVER RECORDED in the city of Ballarat. Just 87mm of rain fell this winter - the lowest level since weather records began almost a century ago in 1908.
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8/31 -
NIGER - 63 mm of rain fell in recent days - EQUIVALENT TO THE TOTAL RAINFALL RECORDED THERE OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS.
NEPAL - Hundreds feared dead in Nepal’s WORST LANDSLIDE IN A DECADE.
NETHERLANDS - A heatwave in the Netherlands in July caused about 1000 more deaths than a normal July. The statistics office said an average of 2730 people died each week in July – the HOTTEST MONTH SINCE DUTCH RECORDS STARTED IN 1706 – compared to a normal figure of about 2500.
8/26 -
BANGLADESH - continuous dry spell dried up rivers as water levels of the three major rivers — Padma, Meghna and Brahmaputra — hit their lLOWEST IN 14 YEARS.
8/25 -
BRITAIN - FREAK flooding was THE WORST IN 50 YEARS.
8/22 -
INDIA - The rains were THE HEAVIEST IN MORE THAN TWO DECADES.
SOUTH AFRICA - Half a metre (20 inches) of snow has fallen again on the mountains of the Eastern Cape and in the gullies and cliffs of the Ben McDhui Mountains in ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S BEST WINTERS IN LIVING MEMORY FOR SNOW.
8/20 -
NEW ZEALAND - New South Wales has suffered its WORST SNOWFALL IN MORE THAN 20 YEARS. Snow coverage in the NSW Alps was LOWER THAN THE LOWEST EVER RECORDED LEVEL in 1982.
8/18 -
NEW ZEALAND - the WETTEST WINTER IN THE REGION SINCE 1972, according to rainfall figures.
8/16 -
ARIZONA - The rain total is 7.84 inches since the monsoon began June 15. The total makes the 2006 monsoon the SECOND-WETTEST MONSOON TO DATE in Tucson and there's plenty more rain on the way.
8/15 -
INDIA - RECORD RAIN - a RECORD UNHEARD OF IN THE PAST 70 YEARS.
8/13 -
BRITAIN - Village left with no water for FIRST TIME IN 300 YEARS - Residents in a tiny hamlet are praying for rain after the hot weather dried up their only running water supply for the first time in 300 years.
8/14 -
CHINA - The water level in the Chongqing section of the Yangtze river - China's longest river - hit 3.5 metres (11.5 feet), its LOWEST LEVEL IN 100 YEARS.
US blazes - SOME OF THE WORST SUMMER WILDFIRES IN MORE THAN A DECADE.
CANADA - British Columbia - It’s been the WORST SEASON FOR WILDFIRES SINCE 2003.
CHINA - 35,000 cloud seeders are using ground-based rocket-launchers and aircraft to create rain in areas facing their WORST DROUGHT IN 55 YEARS.
TEXAS - The current drought could go down as THE WORST EVER by the end of the year.
UNITED KINGDOM - The WORST DROUGHT IN 30 YEARS.
ARCTIC - "When you look at the Arctic, it was the WARMEST WINTER ON RECORD. From January 2005 to July of 2006, the sea ice has been essentially at a RECORD MINIMUM."
8/4 -
SOUTH AFRICA - Heavy snow has fallen on Johannesburg for the FIRST TIME IN 25 YEARS as South Africa faces SOME OF ITS HARSHEST WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR DECADES.
NORTH KOREA - the WORST FLOODING IN A CENTURY.
IOWA - A RECORD RAINFALL of six-point-nine inches broke a 53-year-old RECORD for daily precipitation.
of 100 degrees. In Woodland Hills, the high Saturday hit a crippling 116 degrees, matching the Aug. 24, 1985, RECORD for the hottest day ever recorded there. Saturday marks the 17th day in a row that highs have exceeded 100 degrees in Woodland Hills and they are still looking at a very, very warm air mass. Last month was the second-hottest June ever recorded in downtown Los Angeles.
CALIFORNIA - the LARGEST FIRE in the Success Valley region since the late 1970s. The lightning strike that sparked the blaze was part of a freak storm system that set off a lightning and thunder display southeast county residents said they HAVE NOT SEEN IN RECENT YEARS.
ITALY - due to heatwave, the largest river, the Po, shrank to its LOWEST LEVEL SINCE RECORDS BEGAN.
JAPAN - Flooding and mudslides left three people dead Saturday after RECORD RAIN hit Kyushu. Kyushu recorded their MOST-EVER RAINFALL FOR A 24-HOUR PERIOD.
8/1 -
NEW ZEALAND - July's wet weather was due to an UNUSUAL cluster of weather patterns. Parts of the Wairarapa and Wanganui had their WETTEST JULY ON RECORD.
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7/30 -
CANADA - The month of July was hot and dry enough to set NEW WEATHER RECORDS in Winnipeg.
GERMANY - weather statisticians did not wait for the month to close before declaring July 2006 the country's HOTTEST AND SUNNIEST ON RECORD. The average high was approximately 81 degrees, or 8 degrees higher than historical average. Paris, France, too logged a RECORD JULY. The average July temperatures in Paris are 76 and 57 degrees: Not a single day or night were that cool.
INDIANA - Thursday night's rainfall set a few records; not only did they break a RECORD FOR MOST RAINFALL EVER ON JULY 27TH, but with four days left in the month, it was ALREADY THE RAINIEST JULY EVER in South Bend.
LOUISIANA - Heavy rain in Shreveport Thursday smashed the RECORD FOR RAINFALL FOR JULY 27TH.
UNITED KINGDOM - Royston suffered flash floods this week in the BIGGEST THUNDERSTORM TO HIT THE TOWN SINCE ITS RECORDS BEGAN in 1972.
ARIZONA - The monsoon storm that boomed and flashed across the Valley on Tuesday night was the BIGGEST IN FIVE YEARS.
SOUTH KOREA - All told in July, Seoul got more than 3 feet of rain - 38.48 inches - three times the normal rainfall of 12.73 inches. The rain was THE MOST SEVERE TO HIT THE COUNTRY SINCE 1973.
7/28 -
CALIFORNIA - UNPRECEDENTED 12 DAY HEATWAVE KILLING THOUSANDS OF ANIMALS - cows, chickens and turkeys.
THE WEATHER PATTERNS THAT CAUSED THE SCORCHING TEMPERATURES WERE 'POSITIVELY FREAKISH'. The Great Heat Wave of 2006 was not just an epic meteorological event - it was an epochal one, UNPRECEDENTED in northern California's weather annals, meteorologists agree. It has been HOTTER FOR LONGER THAN EVER BEFORE. The region's last significant heat wave - in 1972 - lasted just two days, and never in the past has the Bay Area suffered through as many consecutive days of temperatures above 110. At least one city has hit 100 degrees or above since July 16. It's not just the scorching days that made this heat wave remarkable. It's also the hot, sticky nights. The current heat wave broke Sacramento's RECORD FOR HIGHEST OVERNIGHT TMPERATURE with 79 degrees. If the heat wave is unprecedented, so is the weather pattern that has caused it. Typically, the Central Valley's heat is mitigated by intrusions of cool marine air penetrating the Golden Gate and adjacent low-lying areas. Additionally, the Bay Area was visited by SOMETHING TRULY ALIEN during this hot spell: huge quantities of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of California. An anomalous high-pressure flow swept humid air from those areas into Northern California. There the high pressure remained stationary. Such a strange concatenation of meteorological phenomena is unheard of for the Bay Area and delta. But that doesn't necessarily mean it won't happen again.
7/27 -
NEW ZEALAND - RAINFALL RECORDS BROKEN - In some parts of South Wairarapa and on a belt of hills north and south of Wanganui in particular, RAINFALL RECORDS are being broken with more than 400 millimetres in July so far.
7/26 -
CALIFORNIA has sweltered under RECORD-BREAKING, 50-plus temperatures again. "This is a historic heat wave." This was the FIRST TIME IN 57 YEARS THAT BOTH NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HAD ENDURED RECORD-BREAKING HEAT at the same time.
It was ONE OF THE HOTTEST WEEKENDS IN MORE THAN A DECADE in Orange County.
NETHERLANDS - July 2006 is on track to be the HOTTEST MONTH IN 300 YEARS in the Netherlands, since temperatures were first measured in 1706.
TONGA - May registered a RECORD NUMBER of 252 earthquakes during the month.
7/25 -
BRAZIL - THE WORST DROUGHT IN 20 YEARS has reduced South America's Iguazu falls to a trickle.
U.S. - the first half of the year was the WARMEST ON RECORD for the United States. The average temperature for the 48 contiguous states from January through June recorded at 51.8 degrees Fahrenheit, or 3.4 degrees above average for the 20th century. This makes it the WARMEST SUCH PERIOD SINCE RECORD-KEEPING BEGAN at the National Climatic Data Center. Worldwide, it was the sixth warmest year-to-date since record keeping began in 1880.
U.S. - More than 350 DAILY-RECORD HIGHS and several ALLL-TIME RECORDS were set or tied during the week. Douglas, WY, notched an all-time-record high of 105 degrees F on July 18, followed the next day in Russell, KS (111 degrees F), by the highest reading since July 14, 1980. In Nebraska, July 19 maxima of 109 degrees F in Grand Island, 106 degrees F in Kearney, and 108 degrees F in Lincoln were the stations' highest readings since the summers of 1983, 1990, and 1995, respectively. In the Midwest, Des Moines (100 degrees F on July 19) had its first reading at or above 100 degrees F since August 25, 2003. In Wisconsin, LaCrosse posted highs of 98, 98, and 99 degrees F from July 15-17. It was the first time LaCrosse reached or exceeded 98 degrees F on 3 consecutive days since August 1988, when there were 4 such days. Farther south, the hottest weather since August 2000 affected locations such as Huntsville, AL (102 degrees F on July 18), and Nashville, TN (100 degrees F on July 19). By July 21, Western highs soared to 118 degrees F in Phoenix, AZ, and 108 degrees F in Hillsboro, OR. It was the hottest day in Phoenix since July 28, 1995, while Hillsboro tied an all-time record originally set on July 19, 1956. Elsewhere in Oregon, Portland (104 degrees F) experienced its hottest day since September 2, 1988. On July 22, Woodland Hills, CA, posted an all-time-record high of 119 degrees F, previously established with a high of 116 degrees F on August 24, 1985. Woodland Hills also set a record for consecutive days with highs of 100 degrees F or greater (17 days from July 6-22; previously 15 days from August 1-15, 1998).
In the Northeast, non-tropical daily-record totals for July 21 included 3.23 inches in Newark, NJ, and 2.06 inches at New York's LaGuardia Airport. A day later, rainfall records for July 22 topped 2 inches in locations such as Greensboro, NC (3.22 inches), and Atlantic City, NJ (2.34 inches). In the Midwest, the first 2-inch daily total in Chicago, IL (2.05 inches on July 20), since August 1, 2003, when 2.24 inches fell. Farther west, July 21 rainfall records in Nebraska included 1.56 inches in Hastings and 0.84 inch in Kearney.
7/24 -
CALIFORNIA - sweltered again in a heat wave that has set records across the state. Even in usual havens from the heat such as San Francisco, TEMPERATURES SOARED TO RECORDS on the weekend with the Bay City hitting 30c yesterday. In Woodland Hills in the Valley, the temperature today hit at least 37.7c for the 18th straight day.
JAPAN - Torrential rain continued to lash southern Kyushu on Sunday, SETTING RECORDS in places.
7/23 -
JAPAN - Flooding and mudslides left three people dead Saturday after RECORD RAIN hit Kyushu. Spots in Kagoshima, Kumamoto and Miyazaki prefectures in Kyushu recorded their MOST-EVER RAINFALL FOR A 24-HOUR PERIOD.
CANADA - Temperatures in parts of southern B.C. hit 42 C in THE MOST INTENSE HEAT WAVE IN ALMOST A DECADE.
EUROPE - In Britain, a severe drought, said to be the WORST IN A CENTURY in the south of England, is making itself felt and temperatures hit a JULY RECORD of 36.3 Celsius (97.3 Fahrenheit) earlier this week.
7/22 -
CALIFORNIA - The heat wave gripping Southern California intensified with RECORD-HIGH TEMPERATURES. Temperatures in downtown Los Angeles hit 99 degrees Saturday - the HIGHEST EVER FOR THIS DAY - beating the high of 96 degrees set July 22, 1960. Burbank was sweltering by 3 p.m. with temperatures of 111 degrees, beating the July 22, 1980, RECORD FOR THIS DAY.
7/21 -
PENNSYLVANIA - One of THE WORST SUMMER STORM TO EVER HIT the PECO service territory.
MISSOURI - A violent storm with winds reaching up to 128 kilometres per hour ripped through the American Midwest on Wednesday. "This is ONE OF THE WORST STORMS WE CAN ALL REMEMBER to hit the city of St. Louis in recent years."
7/20 -
EUROPE - governments scrambled to save lives in RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES to avoid a repeat of the catastrophic heatwave of 2003 that killed thousands of people. In Britain, temperatures hit an ALL-TIME HIGH FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, touching 36.3 deg C (96.6F) south of London to edge out the previous record set in 1911. Germany's national meteorological service said July was on the way to being THE HOTTEST SINCE RECORDS BEGAN in many parts of the country.
OREGON - the Govenor declared a state of emergency because of RECORD HEAT LEVELS and RECORD LOW HUMIDITY.
7/19 -
BELGIUM - the HOTTEST DAY EVER IN JULY, with 37 degrees.
EUROPE - Much of Europe baked in tropical temperatures that climbed as high as 40C, in an increasingly dangerous heatwave. Britain was braced for its HOTTEST DAY ON RECORD. Wisley in Surrey recorded an UNPRECEDENTEED 36.5C (97.3F).
EUROPE - governments scrambled to save lives in RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES. In Britain, temperatures hit an ALL-TIME HIGH FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, touching 36.3 deg C (96.6F) south of London to edge out the previous record set in 1911. The average temperature in southeastern England in July is 70 degrees. Germany's national meteorological service said July was on the way to being THE HOTTEST SINCE RECORDS BEGAN in many parts of the country. In Ireland, firefighters battled a gorse blaze close to a beach south of Dublin yesterday after temperatures pushed above 30C for THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN A DECADE.
INDIA - it rained a RECORD 180 mm overnight in Kolkata.
NORTH KOREA - In the upper regions of the Daedong River this is the MOST RAIN THAT HAS FALLEN SINCE 1990.
EUROPE - Much of Europe baked in a heatwave as temperatures climbed as high as 40C. Britain was braced for its HOTTEST DAY ON RECORD.
ALABAMA - LONGEST HEAYWAVE SINCE 1990. Decatur area is mired in a rare lengthy heat wave with temperatures exceeding 94 degrees for the seventh straight day. The last time the Decatur area experienced as long a hot spell was Sept. 2 to Sept. 9, 1990. The heat wave ranks as the 30th longest in Alabama history. The 1930s and 1950s have had the most heat waves reaching 10 days or longer. The state's longest heat wave was in 1914, when temperature remained above 94 for 20 straight days starting June 20.
7/17 -
CHINA - floods were THE WORST IN A CENTURY along stretches of Hunan's Xiangjiang river. The water level in the Leishui river, a major tributary of the Xiangjiang, rose by more than 10 metres from Friday to Sunday, reaching a RECORD HIGH.
The MOST POWERFUL TORNADO TO EVER HIT WESTCHESTER COUNTY in New York state.
NORTH DAKOTA - A straight-line wind of 100 mph forced tiny Coleharbor to its knees Wednesday night in the WORST DISASTER IN THE TOWN'S 101-YEAR HISTORY.
ECUADOR - The Tungurahua volcano's HIGHEST RECORDED ACTIVITY SINCE IT STARED ERUPTING IN 1999.
7/17 -
NORTH KOREA - A RECORD DOWNPOUR left hundreds of North Koreans dead or missing.
7/15 -
MINNESOTA - Duluth weathered RECORD-BREAKING HEAT, some portions of the region hitting or topping 100 degrees.
U.S. - the first half of the year was the WARMEST ON RECORD for the United States. The average temperature for the 48 contiguous states from January through June recorded at 51.8 degrees Fahrenheit, or 3.4 degrees above average for the 20th century. This makes it the WARMEST SUCH PERIOD SINCE RECORD-KEEPING BEGAN at the National Climatic Data Center. Worldwide, it was the sixth warmest year-to-date since record keeping began in 1880.
7/14 -
NEW YORK - Rochester's RAINIEST JULY 12TH ON RECORD. The afternoon downpour edged PAST THE DAILY RECORD FOR JULY that has lasted since the National Weather Service began keeping those records in 1897.
7/13 -
KOREA - the LARGEST AMOUNT OF RAINFALL SINCE 1993.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA - a series of light to moderate earthquakes accompanying the FIRST HISTORICAL ERUPTION OF KARAI VOLCANO in Papua New Guinea. Frequent earthquake activity continues with emissions from another volcano, Mt. Bamus, a volcano that has been inactive for more than 100 years.
7/12 -
CANADA - Winnipeg is facing its DRIEST JUNE AND JULY ON RECORD.
NORTH DAKOTA - Bismarck SET A RECORD with 105 DEGREES, 3 degrees warmer than in 1976.
NEW YORK - This was Rochester's RAINIEST JULY 12TH ON RECORD. Rochester received more than 3 inches of rain, beating the previous high for July 12 — just under an inch in 1910. Also, the afternoon downpour edged PAST THE DAILY RECORD FOR JULY that has lasted since the National Weather Service began keeping those records in 1897.
7/9 -
NEW ZEALAND - ONE OF THE WETTEST WINTERS IN THE REGION FOR MANY YEARS.
7/5 -
CALIFORNIA - In San Diego JUNE TEMPERATURES REACHED RECORD HIGHS. Average temperatures also made their way into the record book.
ARIZONA - JUNE WAS THE HOTTEST MONTH ON RECORD.
AUSTRALIA - Drought conditions have worsened in some parts of Australia after ONE OF THE DRIEST JUNES ON RECORD - the DRIEST JUNE IN OVER 80 YEARS.
SCOTLAND - major thunderstorms wreaked havoc during ONE OF THE WESTTEST JULY DAYS ON RECORD.
7/2 -
CUBA - With about 200 millimeters of rain, 26 percent above the historic average, June 2006 is going in the books as THE WETTEST IN THE LAST DECADE in the eastern Cuban province of Las Tunas.
MASSACHUSETTS - This May and June MADE HISTORY in Massachusetts. In Boston, 22.57 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN THE PAST TWO MONTHS, as of Friday morning. That's the most since the National Weather Service starting keeping records for the city in 1872.
7/2 -
TASMANIA - has recorded ONE OF THE DRIEST MONTHS OF JUNE EVER.
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6/30 -
Sea ice concentrations in the Arctic were at a RECORD LOW FOR JUNE.
AUSTRALIA - Orange prices are set to rise as the HARSHEST FROSTS IN 20 YEARS in two of Australia's main orange-growing regions cause havoc for the citrus industry.
BOSNIA - The previous seven days had been THE HOTTEST FOR A CENTURY.
6/29 -
MONTSERRAT - Scientists at the Montserrat Volcano Observatory have reported that there is an ongoing swarm of volcanic earthquakes at shallow depths, “the LIKES OF WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN SEEN AT THE MVO FOR YEARS.”
6/29 -
EASTERN U.S. - THE WORST FLOODING IN THE EASTERN U.S FOR DECADES.
6/28 -
PENNSYLVANIA - flooding has put the Schuylkill River at its HIGHEST LEVEL IN PHILADELPHIA IN 145 YEARS.
6/27 -
WASHINGTON - For the second consecutive day, Seattle saw RECORD HEAT, along with ONE OF THE EARLIEST SMOG ALERTS ON RECORD, too. It is RARE for a smog advisory this early in the summer; they typically appear in July and August.
JAPAN - the danger of landslides COULD RISE TO A LEVEL UNSEEN IN YEARS.
MASSACHUSETTS - As of 8 p.m. Sunday, Boston had seen 22.26 inches of rainfall in May and June, the MOST IN A TWO-MONTH PERIOD SINCE RECORD KEEPING BEGAN in 1872. The previous record for any consecutive, two-month rainfall was set in 1955.
CANADA - the temperature reached 101 degrees at Vancouver's Pearson Field - That temperature SCORCHED THE PREVIOUS JUNE 26 RECORD of 90 degrees set in 2000.
6/26 -
AUSTRALIA - The winter channel run may have to be cancelled for rural home dams because they are only 6 per cent full, the LOWEST LEVEL EVER RECORDED FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. Grain and sheep farmers say if winter rainfall does not return to normal, the future will be bleak.
6/25 -
WASHINGTON DC - heavy rainfall DESTROYED A SINGLE-DAY RECORD for June 25 that goes back to 1870.
NEW DAILY RAINFALL RECORD at Dulles Airport of 5.94.
MASSACHUSETTS - As of 8 p.m. Boston had seen 22.26 inches of rainfall in May and June, the MOST IN A TWO-MONTH PERIOD SINCE RECORD KEEPING BEGAN in 1872.
MARYLAND - residents say the rain is THE WORST IN OVER 30 YEARS.
WASHINGTON - Temperatures hit a RECORD-SETTING 90 degrees in Olympia.
OREGON - Albany hit a RECORD-HIGH 99 degrees.
6/23 -
MASSACHUSETTS - RAINFALL SET A RECORD of 1.35 inches in Boston, breaking the previous high for this date of 0.69 inches, in 1967.
6/21 -
CHINA - Shangai suffered through the HOTTEST JUNE 21 SINCE RECORD-KEEPING BEGAN more than 130 years ago as the mercury topped 37.3 degrees.
NEW ZEALAND - HEAVIEST SNOW DUMP IN 50 YEARS.
6/19 -
WORLD - GRAIN - This year’s world grain harvest is projected to fall short of consumption by 61 million tons, marking the sixth time in the last seven years that production has failed to satisfy demand. As a result of these shortfalls, world carryover stocks at the end of this crop year are projected to drop to 57 days of consumption, the LOWEST LEVEL IN 34 YEARS, the SHORTEST BUFFER SINCE 1972 when there was a 56-day-low that triggered a doubling of grain prices. World carryover stocks of grain, the amount in the bin when the next harvest begins, are the most basic measure of food security.
NEW MEXICO - The last seven months have been the DRIEST ON RECORD in some areas. Albuquerque received 0.41 inches of precipitation - the DRIEST IN 114 YEARS of data. The previous record low for November-through-May was 0.6 inches in 1995-1996. May was also the DRIEST ON RECORD in Santa Fe, which received 1.2 inches. The previous record was 1.65 inches. Santa Fe records date back 133 years.
6/18 -
CALIFORNIA - The Bay Area's BIGGEST EARTHQAUKE IN FOUR YEARS rolled by San Martin at magnitude 4.7. The quake piqued the interest of experts because it occurred on an unnamed fault that HAS NEVER BEEN KNOWN TO POP OFF BEFORE.
MAINE - RECORD AMOUNT OF RAIN hit southern Maine this spring.
6/17 -
ALABAMA - The nine and a half month period from Sept. 1 through June 17 - with a rain total of 22.26 inches - has been THE DRIEST SUCH PERIOD EVER EXPERIENCED in Mobile, according to records that go back to 1930.
AUSTRALIA - Perth has experienced its OLDEST TEMPERATURE IN MORE THAN 100 YEARS. The temperature in the city fell to -0.7 degrees Celsius, believed to be the lowest since 1896. It's not the only record. "Perth has had the GREATEST NUMBER OF MINIMUM TEMPERATURE DAYS UNDER FIVE DEGREES FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE SINCE RECORD BEGAN." "It is (also) THE DRIEST YEAR TO DATE ON RECORD for Perth and certainly THE DRIEST JUNE as well." The cold spell has brought record lows right across the state, with many places experiencing sub-freezing temperatures this month. The UNUSUAL WEATHER is the result of a large high pressure system moving slowly across the south
TEXAS - It's been THE WARMEST YEAR IN MORE THAN A CENTURY in north Texas, since records began in 1898.
A major red tide alert was issued for the west coast of North America - The closure affects bivalve shellfish — oysters, mussels, clams and scallops. It's expected to last several weeks. These harvesting closures aren't uncommon. But this is ONE OF THE LARGEST CLOSURES EVER, extending from British Columbia's North Coast south into Washington state.
6/15 -
Tropical Storm Alberto dumped RECORD AMOUNTS OF RAIN on South Carolina.
IDAHO -the STRONGEST TWISTER TO HIT IDAHO IN 50 YEARS.
ARMENIA - THIS IS THE HOTTEST JUNE SINCE 1966.
AUSTRALIA - Adelaide has shivered through its COLDEST NIGHT FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS with a temperature of 0.2 degrees.
LOUISIANA - the eight months since Oct. 1 have been THE DRIEST SOUTHERN LOUSIANA HAS BEEN DURING THE 111 YEARS THAT RECORDS HAVE BEEN KEPT.
6/14 -
COLORADO - A 100 degree RECORD TEMPERATURE was recorded at Denver International Airport, the EARLIEST IN THE YEAR IT'S EVER REACHED THAT TEMPERATURE in Denver. Before Wednesday the earliest it had ever hit 100 degrees in Denver was June 23, 1955.
6/14 -
COLORADO - Early June temps are UNPRECEDENTED IN DENVER RECORDS. The temperature at Denver International Airport reached or surpassed 90 degrees on 12 of the first 14 days in June. The hot spell included seven straight days of 90-or-higher temperatures, marking the EARLIEST SUCH STREAK SINCE RECORDKEEPING BEGAN in 1872. The mercury hit 102 last Wednesday, the 14th, a RECORD FOR THE DATE and the EARLIEST TRIPLE-DIGIT TEMPERATURE EVER for Denver.
INDONESIA - The earthquake that hit Indonesia at the end of May has caused more damage than the tsunami of 2004. The impact of the Java earthquake was much worse than first thought and could be considered as ONE OF THE WORST NATURAL DISASTERS OF THE PAST 10 YEARS.
BRITAIN - Hailstones the size of golf balls rained down on Coventry as a FREAK STORM hit the city Monday afternoon. Weather experts said they had seen NOTHING LIKE IT IN 40 YEARS.
OREGON - the WORST STORM SEEN BY THE OBSERVERS IN 20 YEARS.
6/13-
NEW ZEALAND - Some parts of the region experienced their DEEPEST SNOWFALLS FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS.
COLORADO - By 4 p.m. Fort Collins was sizzling at 95 degrees, SURPASSING THE PREVIOUS RECORD of 94 degrees set in 1977 and crushing the average of 81 degrees.
6/12 -
BRITAIN - the HOTTEST JUNE 12 ON RECORD. Heathrow Airport enjoyed the highest temperature of 87f (30.7c), beating a previous high that had stood for more than a century.
6/11 -
AUSTRALIA - Perth is in the throes of ITS DRIEST START TO WINTER ON RECORD with little relief in sight. "We have had no rain for the first 11 days of June which has never happened before." Perth would normally receive around 50mm of rainfall in the first 11 days of June.
INDIA - Patna recorded more than 22 centimetres of rainfall in 36 hours alone - A NEW RECORD IN THE LAST 20 YEARS.
6/9 -
CHINA - the WORST SUMMER FLOODING IN PARTS OF CHINA IN THREEE DECADES.
6/7 -
ALASKA - A rare June frost and the temperature at Fairbanks International Airport dropped to 29 degrees early Sunday morning, BREAKING THE OLD RECORD of 33 degrees in 1982.
6/6 -
CANADA - Southern New Brunswick saw RECORD RAINFALL amounts and flooding throughout the region.
HUNGARY - The Hernad river rose to an ALL-TIME HIGH of 415 centimetres after heavy rain.
6/4 -
ARIZONA - a NEW RECORD HIGH was set in Phoenix with the temperature hitting 112 degrees.
COLORADO - Temperatures in Colorado Springs easily SHATTERED RECORDS as the mercury topped 91 degrees by noon. The old record, set in 1958, was 89 degrees.
6/2 -
KENTUCKY - Slow but steady rain much of Friday made it THE WETTEST JUNE 2 in Louisville's history. A record 1.75 inches of rain was recorded by National Weather Service gauges at Louisville International Airport, breaking the old record for the day of 1.54 inches set in 1990.
FIJI - RECORD LEVELS OF RAIN fell in Nadi. The downpour on the 1st alone was measured at 96 millimetres, which is more than the average rainfall for a month in the Nadi area.
INDIA - recorded abnormally hot and humid weather conditions which HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE IN MAY.
6/1 -
TEXAS - Residents in El Paso had to deal with scorching RECORD-BREAKING 102-degree heat on Thursday.
FIJI - RECORD LEVELS OF RAIN fell in Nadi. The downpour on the 1st alone was measured at 96 millimetres, which was more than the average rainfall for a month in the Nadi area.
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5/31 -
VERMONT - It was already the WETTEST MAY ON RECORD, but an afternoon of noisy thunderstorms ensured Burlington would break the old rainy record by a comfortable margin. The mid-afternoon downpour amounted to a third of an inch, bringing rainfall for the month to 7.1 inches, well above the previous high water mark of 6.31 inches in May 1983. Burlington's precipitation record for May fell on the 22nd, when 0.17 inches of rain lifted Burlington's May total beyond the 1983 record. Since then, more rain fell almost daily. Measurable precipitation fell on 23 days during the month.

RECORD HEAT ACROSS MUCH OF THE U.S. -
OREGON, CALIFORNIA - 96 degrees in Medford melted a record of 92 degrees set in 1924. Heat also broke records in Roseburg, Klamath Falls and North Bend, as well as Alturas and Montague, Calif. Mount Shasta, Calif., tied a record.
UTAH - temperatures are almost 20 degrees above average this week.
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MICHIGAN - there's been nothing normal about the near-record heat hitting West Michigan.
ILLINOIS - A high of 94 degrees Sunday broke the date's previous record of 93.
MINNESOTA - Monday's record-breaking heat.
OHIO - What had been record heat in Kansas City two days ago, is what was almost record heat for us." 93 degree heat tied the locak record.
CANADA - Toronto was blanketed under record-setting heat and haze.
5/30 -
AUSTRALIA - Parkes recorded its COLDEST-EVER MAY MINIMUM temperature when the mercury in town plummeted to -1.5 degrees celcius. It was even colder out at the Parkes airport with a temperature of -4. Parkes has experienced ONE OF THE DRIEST EVER STARTS TO A YEAR with only 57.9 millimetres recorded. This is well below the 235mm average for the five-month period. However, it's not the driest on record, with 1902 producing only 47.1mm from January to May.
BELIZE - Localized flooding has SET UNPRECEDENTED RECORDS throughout the country, especially in the southern districts. It is expected to be ONE OF THE WETTEST RAINY SEASONS IN RECENT MEMORY.
5/29 -
MICHIGAN - On the 29th, the high of 92 in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti BROKE A RECORD high of 91 set back in 1942.
5/25 -
AUSTRALIA - RECORD COLD TEMPERATURES FOR MAY of up to 10C below average have hit parts of Queensland.
IRELAND - The West of Ireland experienced some of its WORST SUMMER WEATHER IN LIVING MEMORY last week as incessant rain poured down on the region.
THAILAND - As much as 330mm of rain had fallen in a day, the LARGEST AMOUNT IN 38 YEARS.
5/24 -
CALIFORNIA - SAN DIEGO – something they seldom see this time of year: RECORD-SETTING RAINFALL and strong winds.
THAILAND - In Uttaradit province, waters rose as high as 4m in what the government has said was the WORST FLOODING IN OVER 20 YEARS.
THAILAND - It is the WORST FLOODING IN 60 YEARS to hit northern Thailand.
5/22 -
MALTA - May 22 was the HOTTEST DAY EVER FOR MAY since temperature records began in Balzan way back in 1987.
CALIFORNIA - not only was May 22 the WETTEST May 22 in San Diego since 1850, it was the WETTEST LATE-SPRING DAY EVER RECORDED here. No spring day after May 15, since San Diego record-keeping began in 1850, has seen so much rain in a single day. The previous record for May 22 was 0.36 of an inch set in 1921. Normal rainfall for the entire month of May in San Diego is 0.20 of an inch. The 0.77 recorded also made May 22 the rainiest day of the 2005-06 rainfall season, which runs July 1 to June 30. For most of the winter, 2005-06 flirted with becoming the driest year on record. Daily rainfall RECORDS WERE BROKEN UP AND DOWN California's coast by the storm. It's UNUSUAL for a late-season storm like this to set records over such a wide area.
5/18 -
WASHINGTON - Temperatures in the 90s since Tuesday the 16th have SHATTERED RECORDS across Eastern Washington, and are more than 20 degrees above normal for mid-May in some places. The Spokane area recorded record highs of 90 on Tuesday and 92 on Wednesday. The mercury hit 90 on Thursday, breaking the record for the dtate of 89 set in 1954.
5/17 -
U.S. - Driving rains that caused the WORST FLOODING IN NEW ENGLAND SINCE THE 1930S. The month is only half over, but it already ranks as THE WETTEST MAY ON RECORD in Concord, N.H., and Portland, Maine.
U.S. - Record rainfall — THREE MONTHS' WORTH OF DOWNPOUR IN LESS THAN A WEEK — has brought to parts of New England the worst levels of flooding in 70 years.
The deluge that's washing out roads and flooding homes in the eastern U.S. is a historic event. The intense storm has BROKEN ALL KINDS OF 48- and 72-HOUR RAINFALL RECORDS.
5/16 -
UTAH - eleven areas throughout the state set RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES.
5/15 -
U.S.- Indianapolis, Indiana set an UNUSUAL WEATHER RECORD - for the lowest maximum temperature. The old record was 52 degrees in 1952, but Friday saw a new record of 48. The normal high temperature for this time of year is 73 degrees.
5/14 -
The HEAVIEST RAINS IN A DECADE have pounded the eastern US states.
The Sun's Great Conveyor Belt has slowed to a RECORD-LOW crawl, according to research by NASA solar physicists. "We've NEVER SEEN SPEEDS SO LOW." "It's off the bottom of the charts.
5/13 -
UNITED KINGDOM - RECORD-BREAKING RAINFALL - The 37mm of rainfall recorded at Broom's Barn, at Higham, was the highest daily total for May since records began back in 1964, shattering the previous record of 30.5mm. The River Linnet just outside Bury St Edmunds recorded 42.8mm of rain between 10am on Saturday and 9am on Sunday, equalling the Linnet's previous wettest day recorded in September 1992.
5/12 -
GEORGIA - Nearly 80% of vineyards in the Gurjaani and Sagarajo districts in eastern Georgia were destroyed by hail. Locals said they HAD NOT SEEN SUCH HAIL FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS in eastern Georgia.
5/10 -
INDIA - The level of water in the Ganges at Garhmukteshwar was the LOWEST SEEN DURING THE PAST 20 YEARS.
5/9 -
NORTH DAKOTA - Devils Lake hit a RECORD HIGH level this month. The lake hit 1,449.2 feet above sea level on May 9, surpassing the previous mark of 1,449.18 feet set on June 17, 2004. "We were near a record starting out (after the spring thaw)." There is a 90 percent chance the lake will hit 1,449.4 feet sometime this summer, and an 80 percent chance it will reach 1,449.5 feet.
5/7 -
TONGA - the STRONGEST QUAKE EVER RECORDED IN TONGA, and the STRONGEST QUAKE IN THE WORLD IN MORE THAN A YEAR.
5/3 -
SCOTLAND - FREAK weather sent Scots to the ski slopes on May Day for the first time this century in the wake of weekend snow showers. Skiers relished snow in May for the FIRST TIME IN A DECADE. This year has been ONE OF THE SHORTEST SKIING SEASONS ON RECORD with no snow over Christmas, New Year and February half-term.
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4/29 -
NEW ZEALAND - About 175mm of rain fell in the seaside resort of Hahei over a three-hour period. Some said it is THE WORST RAIN DAMAGE THEY HAVE SEEN IN 47 YEARS at the seaside settlement.
4/27 -
FLORIDA - It was the HOTTEST APRIL 27 EVER in Fort Lauderdale. The 93-degree reading at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, recorded at 3:27 p.m. Thursday, snapped the all-time record for the date (92 degrees), which was set in 1939. "Strange things can happen weatherwise, and this was a strange day. The heat record was set at the same time as a weak cold front came through."
4/26 -
SPAIN - THE BIGGEST EARTHQUAKE TO EVER HIT THE AREA.
4/25 -
NEW YORK - RECORD-BREAKING RAINFALLS from Long Island to Central Park.
DELAWARE - This weekend's rainfall brought New Castle County more than 2 inches of precipitation, BREAKING A RECORD for April 22 .
4/24 -
CONNECTICUTT - RECORD HEAVY RAINS pummeled the Westport area.
BULGARIA - the waters of the Danube were still rising and had, in one place, reached a record high. In the north-western town of Ruse, the river was 9.11 metres high - 23cm ABOVE THE PREVIOUS RECORD HIGH registered in 1970.
4/23 -
UTAH - Nearly two months of incessant rain and snow (150 percent of normal across northern Utah) have taken their toll on hillsides along the Wasatch Front. State geologists are looking at SOME OF THE MOST UNSTABLE SLOPES THEY'VE SEEN SINCE 1999.
4/22 -
CANADA - Thanks to a large amount of snow and water the past week in places like Norquay and towards Swan River, Manitoba, rivers are reaching RECORD FLOWS NOT SEEN IN OVER 30 YEARS.
4/21 -
IDAHO - The WETTEST SPRING IN RECENT MEMORY.
RUSSIA - A 7.7. earthquake struck Russia's far-eastern Kamchatka peninisula. It was LARGEST SEISMIC EVENT IN THE AREA SINCE 1900.
4/18 -
TEXAS - for the third straight day, RECORD temperatures hit Central Texas.
4/17 -
Oklahomans sweltered through RECORD-BREAKING hot weather on the 17th as temperatures exceeded 100 degrees. At 4 PM Monday, it was 97 degrees in Oklahoma City - five degrees above the record high. Record temperatures also were set in Ponca City, Tulsa and Gage. It was 102 degrees in Stillwater and 100 in Ada. The normal highs for this time of year are in the 70s.
TEXAS - Rolling blackouts swept across the State and Central Texas on Monday night, the 17th, as RECORD-BREAKING heat gripped the state.
SERBIA, ROMANIA, BULGARIA - The Danube has reached its HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 1895 (111 YEARS) in Romania.
In Belgrade the level of the Danube there reached 8.45m, some 40cm MORE THAN THE HIGHEST LEVEL EVER RECORDED, and it was expected to continue rising.
4/16 -
SOUTH CAROLINA - It was hotter in Columbia — 92 degrees — THAN HAS EVER BEEN RECORDED on April 16.
4/13 -
SERBIA, ROMANIA, BULGARIA - The Danube river rose to its HIGHEST LEVELS IN DECADES.
4/10 -
HAWAII - WETTEST MARCH IN 55 YEARS. FLOODING IN PLACES WHERE THERE'S NEVER BEEN FLOODING BEFORE.
4/7 -
NEW YORK - A FREAK April snowstorm yesterday plowed a mild New York winter into the record books - only days after city temperatures soared into the 70s. The season's snow total was 40 inches for the fourth consecutive year - the FIRST TIME THAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE RECORD BEGAN 138 years ago.
4/6 -
NEW YORK - ONE OF THE WETTEST SPRING MONTHS ON RECORD.
4/5 -
CENTRAL EUROPE - The river Danube climbed to RECORD LEVELS in Budapest.
4/3 -
HAWAII - more than 40 days of downpours BROKE RECORDS FOR RAIN at the wettest place on Earth. Nearly 92 inches - or about 7 1/2 feet - of rain were recorded during March at Mount Waialeale, considered the rainiest spot on the planet. The previous record was about 90 inches in April 1971.
4/1 -
MONTANA - Wednesday and Thursday were the RAINIEST CONSECUTIVE MARCH DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF RECORD-KEEPING at Billings Logan International Airport. Rainfall both days broke records. The March 29 record fell Wednesday with a total of 1.13 inches; the old record of half an inch was set in 1977. Wednesday was also the RAINIEST DAY EVER RECORDED IN MARCH. It beat the 0.95 inches that fell on March 22, 1973. The March 30 precipitation record succumbed Thursday morning when Billings had received 0.75 inches. The previous record for the day was 0.32 inches set in 1981. The two-day total brought Billings the second-wettest March on record.
HAWAII - The MOST UNUSUAL WEATHER IN ANYONE'S MEMORY.
CZECH REPUBLIC -THE MOST SEVERE WINTER IN 35 YEARS.
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3/31 -
PENNSYLVANIA - March was THE DRIEST SINCE 1966.
NORTH CAROLINA - This is the DRIEST MARCH ON RECORD in nearly 80 years.
FLORIDA - Pensacola is facing its DRIEST MARCH ON RECORD.
CALIFORNIA - San Francisco set a NEW ALL-TIME RECORD FOR RAINY DAYS IN MARCH yesterday, the 24th day this month with rainfall, beating the old March record of 23 rainy days set in 1904. Oakland has also BEATEN ITS OLD RECORD for wet March days. It's had 21 rainy days this month, trumping the old record of 20 set in 1983.
Northern California - Marin County SET A RECORD FOR THE NUMBER OF RAINY DAYS IN THE MONTH OF MARCH. As of Wednesday, the National Weather Service reported 21 days of rain, breaking a 31-year-old record of 18.
A British research team has observed some of the BIGGEST SEA SWELLS EVER MEASURED (February 8, 2000). A whole series of giant waves hammered into their ship that were so big, according to computer models used to set safety standards for ships and oil rigs, they shouldn't even exist. With a height of up to 29.1 meters (95 feet) from trough to crest, the single waves are the HIGHEST EVER MEASURED.
3/28 -
AUSTRALIA - Mid-north residents are cleaning up after the WORST FLASH FLOODING IN MORE THAN 60 YEARS. Flooding has reached RECORD LEVELS on some remote cattle properties in north-west Queensland.
The turnaround from December's record-low rainfall has been an unusually wet March in Hawai'i as the storm watch continues with no end in sight. It already is the WETTEST MONTH EVER in Lihu'e, Kaua'i.
3/21 -
ALABAMA - the current decade has been the worst for snow lovers since weather measurements began in Birmingham in 1895. The city has now gone 6 years and 2 months since the last measured snow on Jan. 28, 2000, the LONGEST TIME WITHOUT SNOW EVER RECORDED. The high of 85 on March 12 was the SECOND HIGHEST TEMPERATURE FOR THE DATE IN 111 YEARS, exceeded only by the record high of 87 on March 12, 1967.
3/20 -
ALABAMA - the current decade has been the worst for snow lovers since weather measurements began in Birmingham in 1895. The city has now gone 6 years and 2 months since the last measured snow on Jan. 28, 2000, the LONGEST TIME WITHOUT SNOW EVER RECORDED. The high of 85 on March 12 was the SECOND HIGHEST TEMPERATURE FOR THE DATE IN 111 YEARS, exceeded only by the record high of 87 on March 12, 1967.
3/19 -
CANADA - Ontario's Point Pelee National Park has lost its point. The tip - an 800-metre sand spit jutting out - was swallowed by Lake Erie. "It's the second time the spit has vanished in two years; this year, it was the combined result of Ontario's RECORD-BREAKING mild winter, which brought no ice cover to Lake Erie, and extreme winds that whipped north from the United States during a sudden storm. Before its disappearance two years ago, the spit hadn't done its vanishing act for 10 years. "It's happening a lot more frequently, and in the last two years it's the WORST WE'VE EVER SEEN."
3/17 -
FRANCE - A British woman has been killed in an avalanche in France, taking the Alps death toll to 87, the HIGHEST ON RECORD.
3/16 -
A reservoir collapse is the WORST NATURAL DISASTER ON KAUA'I SINCE HURRICANE INIKI IN 1992. The disaster was the most serious consequence so far of this winter's rash of storms.
AUSTRALIA - in the West Australian town of Kalbarri - the BIGGEST FLOOD IN LIVING MEMORY. "No floods have ever gone to this height on record or in living memory."
3/15 -
BULGARIA - floods are said to be the border region's WORST IN 15 YEARS.
3/14 -
HAWAII - A reservoir collapse, after days of heavy rain, unleashed an estimated 300 million gallons of water — the WORST NATURAL DISASTER ON kAUA'I SINCE HURRICANE INIKI IN 1992.
CHINA - A sandstorm dimmed the sky and turned the air the colour of rust in northwest China, reducing visibility to less than 50 metres. In Artux, capital of the Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture, the deputy head of a monitoring station called it the WORST AND STRANGEST SANDSTORM TO HIT THE CITY IN 13 YEARS.
A storm system was the BIGGEST TO PASS THROUGH CENTRAL ILLINOIS IN A DECADE.
The estimated 113 tornadoes that touched down on Sunday, BROKE A 16-YEAR-OLD RECORD FOR ANY DAY IN MARCH. Damage and power outages from the storms and twisters extended across Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. RECORD 143-day drought gripping Phoenix, Arizona.
3/13 -
US climate scientists have recorded a significant rise in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, pushing it to a NEW RECORD LEVEL. The latest data shows CO2 levels now stand at 381 parts per million (ppm) - 100ppm above the pre-industrial average. The research indicates that 2005 saw ONE OF THE LARGEST INCREASES ON RECORD - a rise of 2.6ppm. "Today we're over 380 ppm. That's higher than we've been for over a million years, possibly 30 million years."
CANADA - this has been the WARMEST CANADIAN WINTER SINCE 1948 when nationwide record-keeping began.
TEXAS - Raging wildfires that scorched more than 300,000 acres rival in size the fires that blackened thousands of acres of grassland and killed three people in late December and early January. "This is probably ONE OF THE BIGGEST FIRE DAYS IN TEXAS HISTORY."
3/12 -
INDIA - Many parts of the state are reeling under the heavy downpour OF A SCALE NEVER WITNESSED IN THE MONTH OF MARCH IN 70 YEARS.
MALAWI - The HEAVIEST DOWNPOUR IN 28 YEARS.
CALIFORNIA - the "frigid" high of 48 BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD of 53 degrees for the day, recorded in 1999."We beat the record big time."
3/10 -
OHIO - Since 1978, which had only 0.65 inch of precipitation, NO FEBRUARY HAS BEEN DRIER THAN 2006. Rainfall during the month typically averages 2.9 inches with an additional 5 inches of snowfall. This year’s weather didn’t come close to that with only 0.62 inch of rain and 2.3 inches of snow. It’s also only the fifth time since 1976 that the month of February has been colder than January.
AUSTRALIA - Flooding from ex-tropical cyclone Emma has caused SOME OF THE HIGHEST WATER LEVELS ON RECORD in the Murchison catchment.
HAWAII - Intense rain flooded Hauula, even long-time Windward Oahu families are calling this THE WORST THEY'VE SEEN IN 35 YEARS.
MALAYSIA - Residents in the densely populated suburb of Subang Jaya thought a hurricane must have swept across their neighbourhood when a FREAK storm that lasted 30 minutes uprooted trees, blew off roofs, toppled over lampposts and caused chaos. Residents described the blustery weather conditions that started at 3pm yesterday as “NOTHING LIKE THEY HAD EVER SEEN BEFORE.” The Meteorological Department, when contacted, was unable to explain the phenomenon.
3/6 -
AUSTRALIA - UNPRECEDENTED SIGNS are pointing to a looming La Nina, a phenomenon that can disrupt weather patterns in many parts of the globe. It is UNPRECEDENTED in the historical record for a La Nina of substantial intensity or duration to develop so early in the year."
SWITZERLAND struggled to dig itself out after RECORD SNOWFALL. In Zurich, 21 inches of new snow was recorded on the heights of Zuerichberg, the HIGHEST IN A 24-HOUR PERIOD SINCE RECORDS BEGAN in 1931.
FRANCE, GERMANY - Hessen state in the south was dealing with THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL IN 15 YEARS.
FRANCE - A website which monitors off-piste conditions calls the recent period "the WORST IN LIVING MEMORY" for avalanches.
SCOTLAND - More than 10 inches of snow have fallen since the start of March - the MOST SEEN IN MARCH SINCE RECORDS BEGAN in 1958.
3/3 -
CANADA - British Columbia - Slab avalanches up to 80 cm deep were releasing with the weight of a skier within the ski area. Within the ski area SLOPES RAN THAT HAVE NOT SLID IN 10 YEARS.
3/1 -
INDIA - The HIGHEST EVER MAXIMUM DAY TEMPERATURE IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY of 38.4 degree celsius was recorded on Monday, the 27th.
ARIZONA - The Valley’s RECORDBREAKING DRY SPELL may soon come to an end, as forecasts call for a 30-40 percent chance of rain into this morning. If rain fell at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport yesterday, it will snap a run of precipitation-free days at 132 - 31 days longer than the previous record.
IOWA - ONE OF THE WARMEST WINTERS ON RECORD FOR THE REGION.
NAMIBIA - one of Africa's driest countries, has been ravaged by floods following UNPRECEDENTED heavy rains that have fallen countrywide since the beginning of the year. Since the beginning of 2006, the country has recorded a rainfall average that is higher than the annual rainfall average.
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2/28 -
MALAYSIA - Sunday's floods in Shah Alam are touted to be the WORST IN 10 YEARS, following unusually heavy rain for five hours.
TASMANIA - Hobart's mean minimum overnight temperature was 12.8C, 2.1 degrees above normal and the HIGHEST FOR ANY DECEMBER IN 124 YEARS OF RECORDS. Much of Tasmania had more rain than normal during December, winds gusted in excess of 100km/h and Hobart reached 98km/h on Christmas Day - its SECOND-STRONGEST FESTIVE GUST ON RECORD. Late January brought scorching temperatures up to 40.6C - the SECOND-HIGHEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED in Tasmania.
ILLINOIS - When February came to an end, it marked the FIRST TIME IN 90 YEARS that Quincy went AN ENTIRE MONTH WITHOUT A MEASURABLE AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATION — at least at one location. It's "VERY RARE" for a location anywhere in Illinois to have no precipitation whatsoever in a given month. Quincy hasn't had a month with zero precipitation since July 1916. This dry trend comes on the heels of an extraordinarily dry 2005, which turned out to be the DRIEST YEAR LOCALLY IN 16 YEARS.
KENYA's food situation has deteriorated further as the five year drought continues to create the WORST SITUATION IN THE REGION FOR FOUR DECADES.
SW U.S. - Tucson is suffering through its DRIEST WINTER ON RECORD, as is Albuquerque, N.M. The Southwest's spring wildfire season could come early. “The conditions right now are about THE WORST WE'VE SEEN.” Arizona and New Mexico, along with parts of Alaska, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and California, are at above-normal risk for wildfires. Already the Forest Service has imposed the EARLIEST FIRE RESTRICTIONS EVER in Arizona and New Mexico.
Australian meteorologists warned Fiji and the Pacific region of the HIGHEST TIDES IN 26 YEARS that are expected to sweep in on the 28th of February.
2/26 -
CHINA - It snowed for 50 straight hours in the counties of Xuanhan, Dazhu and Daxian from the evening of Feb. 16 until the morning of Feb. 18. The snow was 60 cm deep in the mountainous areas. This amount has RARELY BEEN SEEN IN THE PAST TWO DECADES.
ARKANSAS - The MOST TORNADOES EVER VERIFIED IN ONE DAY occurred on Nov. 27, 2005, when 31 tornadoes were spotted in Arkansas.
2/24 -
BRITAIN - the country suffered its WORST DROUGHT IN A CENTURY. Groundwater levels in some areas are the LOWEST ON RECORD." Rainfall in the winter months has been the LOWEST SINCE THE DROUGHT OF 1920-21.
MOZAMBIQUE - A rare 7.5 quake was the SECOND-LARGEST TO HIT THE REGION SINCE 1900.
2/23 -
HAWAII - People who live in Hanalei said it's the WORST FLOODING THEY'VE SEEN THERE IN MORE THAN FIVE YEARS.
TEXAS - The temperature plunges last week and in early December are the two largest swings recorded at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport since the winter of 1995-96. Back then, like this winter, the high temperatures fell more than 30 degrees over two days on two occasions. Those swings are also AMONG THE GREATEST WHEN COMPARING ONE DAY'S HIGH WITH THE NEXT DAY'S LOW.
2/22 -
VIETNAM - the BIGGEST TORRENTIAL RAIN THAT HAS FALLEN IN THE MID-DRY SEASON IN THE LAST 30 YEARS.
BRAZIL - After historic drought, Amazon now faces RECORD FLOODING.
2/17 -
REUNION - The toll in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion from the CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS that causes crippling pain in the joints was likely to reach 100,000 by last week. It was BIGGEST EPIDEMIC OF CHIKUNGUNYA EVER RECORDED ANYWHERE.
PHILIPPINES - Leyte has been deluged with more than 20 inches of rain during February, FIVE TIMES THE MAXIMUM OF ANY PREVIOUS MONTH.
2/15 -
SOMALIA - The WORST DROUGHT IN A DECADE has hit Somalia.
2/9 -
CALIFORNIA - downtown Sacramento experienced RECORD-BREAKING TEMPERATURES of 72 degrees 2/7 and 2/8 and 73 degrees on 2/9, burning past the old record of 70 degrees, set on those dates in 1987, 1988 and 1988 again.
VIETNAM - A severe drought affecting northern Vietnam has brought the stretch of the Red River that passes Hanoi to its LOWEST LEVEL IN MORE THAN 100 YEARS.
2/13 -
NEW YORK - 68 centimetres (26.9 inches) of snow fell in Central Park, the MOST SINCE RECORD-KEEPING STARTED IN 1869.
FLORIDA - An arctic blast of cold air in Central Florida will likely drop temperatures to RECORD-BREAKING LOWS.
2/12 -
GERMANY - German meteorologists in the south said they have seen the HEAVIEST SNOWFALL IN A DECADE.
2/10 -
COLORADO - The mountain snows that feed Denver Water's water supply are NEAR RECORD LEVELS and there's so much RECORD SNOW that there's fear of flooding during the spring runoff.
AUSTRALIA - RECORD RAINFALL caused FLOODING UNPRECEDENTED IN RECENT HISTORY and damage in the millions of dollars, following rainfall of 241mm on January 12/13, the aftermath of Cyclone Clare.
OREGON - The Portland area has just slogged through ONE OF ITS RAINEST JANUARIES ON RECORD. Almost 10 inches of rain fell last month, making it Portland’s wettest January since 11.81 inches fell in 1970.
2/8 -
MALTA - temperatures plunging as low as 8.7C makes it THE COLDEST FEBRUARY DAY IN 44 YEARS since 1962 when on the 15th of February the maximum temperature that day reached only 7.2C. The coldest February day since the Meteorological Office started keeping records in 1922 was that of 1929 with a high of 6.7C.
2/7 -
JAPAN - As of 5 p.m. Sunday, accumulations had built to 416 centimeters in Tsunan, Niigata Prefecture - the FIRST TIME IN 25 YEARS THE PREFECTURE RECORDED MORE THAN 400 CM OF SNOWFALL IN ONE WINTER.
CANADA - VANCOUVER - A violent windstorm pummelled southern British Columbia. The mayor of Delta called it the WORST STORM TO HIT THE AREA IN 30 YEARS.
2/3 -
INDIA - most parts have been experiencing warmer than normal day and night temperatures. The sheer scale and extent of the warming anomaly is UNPRECEDENTED FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. The daytime maximums have been above normal by one to six degrees Celsius. Both day and night temperatures have risen in tandem.
2/2 -
TAJIKISTAN - an avalanche killed 18 people in their sleep when it engulfed an apartment block in the mountainous Central Asian state overnight. Avalanches frequently kill small groups of people during the winter and spring in Tajikistan but it was the WORST DEATH TOLL FROM A SINGLE INCIDENT IN SEVERAL YEARS.
2/1 -
CANADA - Vancouver endured 29 days of rain over the 31 days in January, the MOST FOR THE MONTH SINCE WEATHER WATCHERS BEGAN KEEPING RECORDS IN 1937. The previous record was 27, and that was reached in both 1953 and 1964.
BOLIVIA this may be THE COUNTRY'S WORST RAINY SEASON IN FIVE YEARS. Valleys and traditionally dry areas have been hardest hit with THE HIGHEST RAINFALL IN BOLIVIA IN A DECADE.
TORONTO - this has been the WARMEST JANUARY in Toronto since record-keeping began in 1937.
NEW YORK - January 30th the temperature zoomed to a springlike high of 64 degrees, ECLIPSING A 59-YEAR-OLD RECORD for the day, as one of the warmest Januarys on record winds down. The New York area finished the month with an average temperature of 40 degrees and change, the fourth warmest January on record.
UNITED KINGDOM - the incredible drought threatens millions and COULD BE THE WORST IN OVER 80 YEARS. Bewl Reservoir is at its LOWEST SINCE IT WAS BUILT IN 1976, when Britain’s rivers and reservoirs went thirsty in the driest 16 months on record. January was ONE OF THE DRIEST ON RECORD, especially in central and southern England. November 2004 to January 2006 has been the driest 15-month period including two winters since 1920/1922 — and the second driest on record going back to 1914.
OREGON - This has been one of Southern Oregon’s WETTEST WINTERS IN RECENT MEMORY. For the two months that ended Jan. 31, 12.19 inches of rain fell on Medford — two-thirds of the normal ANNUAL average of 18.37 inches. For December and January combined, there have been just four clear days.
WARMEST JANUARY ON RECORD in Oklahoma, South Dakota, Green Bay, Wis., Kansas City, Mo., Riverton, Wyo., and Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska.
KANSAS - It was THE WARMEST JANUARY SINCE WEATHER RECORDS WERE STARTED IN 1875. The unusual weather even produced an EXTREMELY RARE January tornado in Newton on the 28th. The last recorded January tornado in Kansas was 1950.
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1/31 -
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - It was THE WORST FLOOD SINCE 1972, with water measuring five feet in some areas.
NORWAY - Parts of Trøndelag in north-central Norway were being pounded by a downpour on Monday that threatened to set off the WORST FLOODING IN 50 YEARS.
EUROPE - Lisbon, Spain, was hit, experiencing its FIRST HEAVY SNOWFALL IN 52 YEARS.
PORTUGAL & SPAIN - The Portuguese seaside town of Figueira da Foz saw its FIRST SNOWFALL IN 50 YEARS. Lisbon, which was under heavy rainfall since dawn, saw a hint of rare snow flurries for about 30 minutes during the afternoon. It HADN'T SNOWED INTHE CAPITAL SINCE 1954. In the southern city of Ecija, which is called the frying pan of Andalucia because summer temperatures rise above 40C (104F), locals had NOT SEEN SNOW FOR 30 YEARS.
ARIZONA - This has been the MOST FIRE-PRONE JANUARY IN THE PAST 10 YEARS OF DROUGHT.
NEW YORK - It may be an unavoidable part of life near a bay, but the tidal flooding in Howard Beach and Hamilton Beach January 31st was the WORST MANY COULD REMEMBER IN OVER A DECADE. “It’s exceptional.”
The huge west Antarctic ice sheet may be starting to disintegrate . The report comes as most parts of Canada are experiencing ONE OF THE WARMEST WINTERS ON RECORD, with average temperatures above seasonal norms, in some cases by as much as 10 degrees.
UNITED KINGDOM - BRITAIN is facing its WORST DROUGHT FOR 75 YEARS after ONE OF THE DRIEST JANUARIES ON RECORD. Several rivers are approaching their LOWEST EVER FLOWS and groundwater levels in Southeast England are so low that several boreholes are near or at THEIR LOWEST RECORDED LEVEL.
NORTH DAKOTA & MINNESOTA - WARMEST JANUARY EVER RECORDED IN 115 YEARS. January will go down in the record books as the WARMEST in the Fargo-Moorhead area SINCE RECORD-KEEPING BEGAN IN 1881. The same goes for Grand Forks and Bismarck in North Dakota and St. Cloud and the Twin Cities in Minnesota. As of Monday, January’s average daily temperature in Fargo was 23.3 degrees – 16.6 degrees above the 30-year average and nearly two degrees above the record 21.8 degrees set in 1990. During the entire month of January, North Dakota’s Lisbon never saw the temperature fall below zero, and that HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN THE HISTORY OF RECORD KEEPING THERE BEFORE.
1/30 -
FOG - AUSTRALIA - It has been ONE OF THE MOST HUMID JANUARYS IN 10 YEARS.
1/29 -
ALASKA - If the next four days are as unrelentingly cold as the past week, January 2006 will become the THIRD COLDEST MONTH ON RECORD SINCE 1971. With no relief in sight, January 2006 will rate at least the fifth coldest month in the past 35 years.
Huge ridges of sea ice brimmed over the Arctic Ocean and crashed onto a Barrow roadway. The two massive ice surges, known to Alaska Natives as ivus, were the city's LARGEST IN MORE THAN A QUARTER OF A CENTURY and stunned residents who had never seen large blocks of ice rammed ashore. Ivus are like frozen tsunamis and crash ashore violently.
1/28 -
The massive seabird die-off last year had NO COMPARABLE EVENT IN HISTORICAL RECORDS. By summer of 2005, food was so scare that murres starved to death by the thousands on the Olympic Coast, while Washington's colonies of glaucous-winged gulls produced less than 1 percent of their annual chick numbers. Up and down the West Coast, from Vancouver Island to central California, researchers reported bizarre ocean conditions, bird die-offs, and extremely low stocks of some key fish. It's possible that last summer's ecological catastrophe was just a freak alignment of several weather factors, but there's increasing evidence that it bears the fingerprints of climate change.
TEXAS - Lubbock has gone 96 days without measurable rainfall, the LONGEST STREAK SINCE RECORD-KEEPING BEGAN IN 1911. January's average high temperature of 68.3 degrees BROKE AN 83-YEAR-OLD RECORD, well above the normal high of 54.1 degrees. January was above normal in precipitation, including a RECORD RAIN for the 28th of January when 1.59 inches fell at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. Before the rains came January 22, North Texas experienced ONE OF ITS DRIEST 12-MONTH PERIODS EVER. They haven't had a drought of this severity SINCE THE 1950s. Phoenix, Arizona has gone 106 days without rain, ALSO A RECORD.
TEXAS - A RECORD 1.59 INCHES OF RAIN fell at D/FW Airport. It was the most rain since May 28, 2005. Before Saturday, the most rain recorded on Jan. 28 was the 1.18 inches that fell in 1989.
1/27 -
NORTH CAROLINA - Wind gusts set new records in North Carolina early Wednesday. Winds gusted to at least 200 mph early Wednesday morning at the U.S. Weather Service reporting station atop Grandfather Mountain, BREAKING THE RECORD FOR THE HIGHEST WIND EVER AT THE MOUNTAIN of 195.5 mph set on April 18, 1997.
EUROPE - Georgia's president said his country had effectively run out of fuel. "We have RECORD FREEZING TEMPERATURES. We have NEVER HAD SUCH COLD AT LEAST FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS and exactly at this moment the country is without heating and without electricity, without lights." There were reports of cold-weather deaths as far south as Italy.
KENYA - Rare zebras are being killed by anthrax amid the WORST DROUGHT IN 22 YEARS.
WISCONSIN - Appleton - Friday temperatures soared to a RECORD 51 DEGREES for Jan. 27, a full 27 degrees higher than ormal. The previous record for the day was 43 degrees set in 1947. "I feel comfortable saying it will go down as the WARMEST JANUARY EVER."
1/25 -
CANADA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - Wednesday's temperature has set a RECORD HIGH, climbing to 8 degrees Celsius. That breaks the record of 6.9 degrees set 13 years ago in 1996. The record low for January 25th in Prince George was -45.6 degrees Celsius, recorded back in 1950.
ALBERTA was Canada's hot spot for Jan. 25. The thermometer climbed past the forecast temperature to BREAK THE 1938 RECORD HIGH of 7.7 degrees C.
1/23 -
RECORD COLDin Latvia, temperatures of -27C were recorded, the LOWEST IN 100 YEARS. In Russia, the weather is the COLDEST TO AFFECT THE COUNTRY IN MORE THAN 25 YEARS.
Frigid temps have created a Dutch ozone hole. A weather balloon reported a NEW RECORD LOW ABOVE THE NETHERLANDS of -86.8 Celsius.
JAPAN - The season's first snowfall in the greater Tokyo region measured 9cm in the center of the capital yesterday, the HEAVIEST ACCUMULATION IN EIGHT YEARS.
MINNESOTA - “It’s been 18 to 20 degrees above average for much of Minnesota.” It has been MINNESOTA'S WARMEST JANUARY SINCE 1944.
CONNECTICUTT - The back-to-back storms that last week levied hurricane-like DAMAGE NOT SEEN HERE IN TWO DECADES.
EXTREME WEATHER is playing havoc with sporting events around Australia. Horse races in Victoria were cancelled following a RECORD HEATWAVE. Adelaide races were cancelled as the city endured a HEATWAVE NOT EXPERIENCED IN ALMOST 100 YEARS. The city has recorded four continuous days of temperatures over 40. A similar phenomenon was last experienced in 1908.
1/22 -
OREGON - Records are being set all over the state like the one set Tuesday in Roseburg, the WETTEST JANUARY 17 IN MORE THAN 50 YEARS. It rained 2.21 inches, almost an inch more than the previous record for Jan. 17 set in 1954.
CYPRUS - “The average temperature for December was 2°C higher than normal and rainfall barely reached 21 per cent of the monthly norm; the LOWEST AMOUNT IN THE LAST 10 YEARS".
CANADA - The last time it was close to this warm in Toronto on January 20th was two centuries ago. The mercury downtown hit 12-degrees, BREAKING THE FORMER RECORD of 11.7 degrees set in the year 1840. this January is on pace to go down in history as Toronto's warmest ever.
WISCONSIN - on the 19th the high for Beloit was 53, BREAKING THE RECORD of 51 previously set in 1921. South of the state line also saw record-breaking highs Thursday. Rockford passed its record high of 52, set in 1933, by one degree.
1/20 -
RECORD RAINFALL has physically isolated the town of Lake Grace from surrounding communities in Australia. In the direct path of the remnants of tropical cyclone Clare, Lake Grace received non-stop steady rain for twenty-seven hours which produced a record fall of 216.4mm over last Thursday and Friday. The previous record was in 1955 when Lake Grace received 214.3mm for the month of February.
1/19 -
Extreme wintry weather is taking its toll on energy supplies with Russia unable to meet the needs of several European countries. The current cold snap is something experts say normally HAPPENS ONLY ONCE IN A GENERATION. In Moscow, it is the COLDEST JANUARY FOR AT LEAST TEN YEARS.
1/18 -
INDIA - the HEAVIEST RAINS IN HALF A CENTURY forced hundreds of thousands of people in India out of their homes.
WINNIPEG - The recent three-week spell of balmy weather has SHATTERED WINNIPEG RECORDS, with night temperatures averaging 16.9 C warmer than usual for this time of winter. The 21 days of warm weather since Dec. 22 are the WARMEST SUCH INTERVAL RECORDED FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR SINCE RECORDS BEGAN 134 years ago.
1/17 -
ARKANSAS - the low lake levels for the Twin Lakes Area are a matter of concern. The lakes have fallen before, but for most people living here now these are THE LOWEST LEVELS THEY'VE EVER SEEN.
PENNSYLVANIA - wind gusts up to 65 m.p.h. knocked down trees and power lines in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The storm also produced a LOW TIDE WATER LEVEL RECORD.
1/15 -
CANADA - RECORD SNOWFALL forced the cancellation of 200 flights at Montreal airport. The storm will go down in history as ONE OF THE BIGGEST SNOWFALLS IN A SINGLE DAY in Montreal in December, beating a record of 37.8 centimetres (15 inches) on December 27, 1969.
1/12 -
WISCONSIN - Madison went 14 consecutive days - two entire weeks - without a ray of sunlight, according to the National Weather Service. That TIES THE CITY RECORD FOR MOST CLOUDY DAYS IN A ROW, set in 1992.
UNITED KINGDOM - A huge landslide on the Dorset Coast was described as the WORST ONE IN THE AREA FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS.
TEXAS - Even though it is January, drought conditions contributed to several wildfires attacking North Texas fields. The fires this season have been SO EXTREME that firefighters from all over the country are saying they’ve NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS.
TEXAS - A drought in Texas and Oklahoma, ONE OF THE WORST IN NEARLY 100 YEARS, has dried up creeks and ponds, depleted pastures, and fueled wildfires. An "unusual" weather pattern is keeping Enid and northwest Oklahoma locked in a cycle of little or no precipitation, and no relief is in the forecast.
ASIA - is reeling under the HARSHEST WINTER FOR YEARS. In India it reached the lowest temperature in Delhi for 70 years - and the SECOND LOWEST EVER RECORDED.
WESTERN U.S. - RECORD-BREAKING SNOWFALLS hit much of the West. At Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the snow depths at mid-mountain are the DEEPEST IN THE 40-YEAR HISTORY of the resort.
1/11 -
CANADA - Vancouver has had 23 consecutive days of rain and is on track to set a 53-YEAR RECORD amid renewed fears of mudslides.
WASHINGTON - "Our consecutive rainy day streak now stands at 23 with no end in sight. This is now THE LONGEST STREAK SINCE THE EARLY 60S and the FOURTH LONGEST EVER RECORDED."
JAPAN - Fifteen locations across Japan have been hit by RECORD SNOWFALL since last month. In the mountains of central Japan in a RECORD COLD SNAP that has left 71 people dead.
1/10 -
INDIA - Delhi recorded near-freezing temperatures on Sunday FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 70 YEARS. The Dal Lake in Srinagar has frozen FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS.
1/6 -
CHINA - Almost 250,000 people in north-western China have been trapped by heavy snowfall, as the country faces its WORST WINTER IN 20 YEARS. This wraps up a year of extreme weather conditions following the HOTTEST SUMMER IN MORE THAN 50 YEARS.
JAPAN - was bracing for more snow today after SOME OF THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL ON RECORD.
1/4 -
The northern hills of India have been experiencing heavy snowfall since the last week of December, making it one of the LONGEST AND COLDEST SPELLS IN SEVERAL DECADES.
INDIA - Icy cold winds swept Chandigarh, as the maximum here dipped by a RECORD NINE DEGREES BELOW NORMAL at 11.4 C.
MICHIGAN - This past December was the SECOND CLOUDIEST EVER, only December 1972 was cloudier.
CALIFORNIA - Has been hit by four back-to-back storms which originated in China on Dec. 24 and crossed the Philippines to pick up subtropical moisture before letting the rain and wind wallop most of Northern California. The RARE quadruple storm combination comes once every dozen years. In Los Angeles rain drenched the route of the Rose Bowl parade for the FIRST TIME IN A HALF CENTURY.
1/2 -
ITALY - Twenty-five centimetres of snow has fallen on Florence, Italy - the MOST IN 10 YEARS.
CHINA - already enduring its COLDEST WINTER IN 20 YEARS, is preparing for a cold snap that will see temperatures drop by as much as 16C.
1/1/06 -
NEVADA - Reno hit by WORST FLOODING SINCE 1997.
EUROPE - many parts of Britain remain in the grip of ONE OF THE WORST SNOW AND ICE STORMS it has seen in many years.

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