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CURRENT WORLD WEATHER

On my twitter feed yesterday, 49.9deg c reported at Sodom in Israel,19th JULY 2019

Hot as Hell: Temperature in Sodom Broke Israeli Record
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.pr ... -1.7538092

and 54deg c is the record

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'The heat wave that swept Israel on Wednesday reached its peak at Sodom, near the Dead Sea, where the mercury hit 49.9 degrees Celsius (almost 122 degrees Fahrenheit).

This is the highest temperature ever recorded since Israel was founded in 1948, and the second highest ever recorded in the area since national weather data gathering began in the 1920s during the British Mandate, said the Israel Meteorological Service.

The hottest temperature ever recorded in Israel was 54 degrees Celsius (129.2 Fahrenheit) in 1942 at Kibbutz Tirat Zvi in the northern Jordan Valley. '





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Great topic Crikey, thanks for adding.

I've noticed Algeria have had a batch of 49c's this week as well. On the other end of the scale, Vostok in Antarctica had a chilly -76.9c yesterday.
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Thanks for posting those contrasts in temp' 'JS'.
I think like most weather watchers. When weather is benign in OZ we go looking at the world highlights

In the USA.Some reports of a record jet streak speed for July ,140 knots l believe.
Heat wave to the East of the US and Cold and snow in the West of US.
They are blaming jetstream pattern.

I had a look on ACC g jetstreams global view and saw a typical weak summer jetstream pattern.?
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Well. Been doing some reading on jetstream speed records.
Interesting that all the articles l read , claimed a ...record.
In the end the fastest l found by far was over Scotland
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'The Speed of the Polar Jet Stream varies depending on the time of the year. When it is winter in the Northern hemisphere it can reach up to 300 miles an hour but it has been measured at a speed of 400 miles an hour in southwest Scotland.'
by K Haroon
https://www.theairlinepilots.com/forum/ ... t=275#p427

Is that 643km/hr?

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The SH sub tropical jet has been highly zonal /non wavy, for at least 6 weeks
In order to bring down moisture from the tropics a wavy/meridonal tropical jet is required.

I believe this snap of the SH dew point map shows this nicely.
No evidence of any tropic to pole atmospheric rivers
I am noting a change is possibly underway. 21st July 2019.
Seeing a bit of wave activity in the sub tropical jet

Thought l would take a before snap and compare down the track when jet pattern has changed
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24 hour extremes to 1pm AEST 23 July

Omidieh , Iran +49.7
Dome A, Antarctica -73.7

Highest Precip - Ratnagiri, India 284mm
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Interesting obs''. 'JS'
Amazing to think mid latitude NH ..50 deg to equator about 30 deg c. Deviation of about 20 deg
Equator to south pole a deviation of minus 74 -to 30 = 104 deg c :o
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24 hour extremes to 2pm AEST 25 July

Mitribah, Kuwait +50.8c
Vostok, Antarctica -63.1c

Pago Pago / Int. Airport (American Samoa) 188mm


Attention turns to London today (Thursday) and the UK record of 38.5c set in 2003 maybe challenged.
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UK missed the 38.5c record but western Europe got slam dunked by the terrestrial heat bomb. The wavy jet took the Sahara into Germany and France especially with many heat records. The same wavy jet bringing an unseasonal cold records into the U.S overnight.
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Thanks for those updates 'JS'
I am reading on my twitter account of both heat and cold records being broken this week in the NH.
One record was blocking related. Bit really l haven't had the time to delve in.

Some records broken in the US
https://electroverse.net/historic-cold- ... ords-fall/

Michael Ventrice giving a heads up for an impressive cold event in East Europe and Russia later this week
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Mumbai India.

BIG rain totals

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weekly temp highlights to 02/08 UT.

Top temp +54.3c Failakah, Kuwait. About 2c under the Death Valley 1913 record.

Min temp -75.6 Vostok, Antarctica
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Flooding in UK.,Derbyshire dam could breach. 6000 evacuated
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This is one BIG wildfire
Images from Russia, where the army has been sent in to help tackle massive wildfires raging in Siberia (all photos here from Krasnoyarsk region).

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'The wildfires have now spread to about three million hectares (7.4 million acres) - an area roughly the size of Belgium
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https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-49197575#
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sat pic' here

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crikey wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2019 5:26 pm This is one BIG wildfire
Images from Russia, where the army has been sent in to help tackle massive wildfires raging in Siberia (all photos here from Krasnoyarsk region).
The image from the ISS is the most damning!
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NEW ZEALAND
4th Aug 2019
Sea level snow being reported

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Antartic polar night finishes in 2 months .
Splendid pictures of southern Aurora here.
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Monsoon rains in Mumbai India are still very heavy .
A detailed analysis here

https://watchers.news/2019/08/05/mumbai ... um=twitter

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'Heavy rains continued into August.

From June 25 to Sunday, August 4, it saw 2 394.4 mm (94.2 inches) of rain, which is more than its annual monsoon season average of 2 317.2 mm (91.2 inches).

There are still two more months until the monsoon season in Mumbai is officially over.'
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2019 a year for record rainfall in the USA
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