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