Earlier today a solar eclipse occured that only people in Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China got to fully experience. Others got a partial, but those were the places to see an almost total eclipse.
The Big Picture blog on Boston.com is one of my favorites to follow and they have an awesome post today with all kinds of photos from the eclipse. Check them out by clicking here!
This yucky, hot weather will continue at least a few more days and the forecast for storms isn’t looking so great. Temperatures are going to hang around 110-115 degrees and while there WAS a chance for rain today, that chance seems to have been taken away.
Check this out from Iraq. Many of the people who live over there called this the worst dust storm in living memory. Iraqis have gotten sick from respiratory problems and travel to and from has been affected big time.
This storm covered most of the country and from the satellite pictures below…was just monstrous. Iraq is about the same geographic size as California.
I wrote about it two days ago and now it’s coming true. The National Weather Service has issued an “excessive heat advisory” for the greater Phoenix area from this coming Friday – Monday.
We’re talking 112-117 degrees this weekend. Ouch.
Looks like I’ll be staying indoors.
July and August are always the hottest times of the year if you live in Phoenix and the surrounding desert cities. The heat can get brutal and reach temperatures over 120 on rare occasions.
I had been hoping that the mild last few months might mean an average summer, but according to Dr. Greg Forbes at [...]
There are developing storms across the desert plains of Arizona right now, from just north of Tucson all the way north to Kearny, which then stretch all the way to Gila Bend. Storm movement seems to be to the west and south, but the weather in Phoenix right now is dark and getting windy.
There is [...]
I was in Las Vegas the last two days and somehow the monsoon really didn’t strike Phoenix while I was gone. Cloudy yesterday, but it just sprinkled around town and no rain registered at my house in Chandler.
But today looks promising. They are saying the best chance is in the higher elevations, but the flow [...]
We Phoenicians have been waiting a long time for the monsoon season to kick off and now it looks like it will happen tomorrow and the rest of the week.
Today there is a slight chance, but Thursday, Friday and Saturday things will get more humid and the storms will start popping up everywhere.
The forecast maps [...]
We can now officially call it Hurricane Andres as sustained wind speeds of 75mph have been reached by the storm. Sadly, there has already been a confirmed death blamed on Andres.
The hurricane is supposed to falter soon and drop back down to a tropical storm while it heads back out into the Pacific. From the [...]
According to the National Hurricane Center, tropical storm Andres now has sustained winds of 70mph and is moving northwest at 9mph.
Once a tropical storm’s winds are sustained over 73mph, its designation changes to a hurricane.
The NHC predicts around 11am PDT today it will reach hurricane strength.
Two main cities in Mexico along the coast where Andres [...]
