Wild Weather, the Wobble Effect

[Sevan Makaracı]

 

Weather: Weather Wobble Jet Stream tornados Siberian Freeze Weather Wobble Wild weather , [2] Wobble Clouds Hurricane development Violent Push Weather & ocean currents Europe Weather

Tides and Whirlpools: Storm Clash whirlpools Lurch of earth Tides , [2] Whirlpools Wobble Sloshing

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"We warned at the start of ZetaTalk, in 1995, that unpredictable weather extremes, switching about from drought to deluge, would occur and increase on a lineal basis up until the pole shift. Where this occurred steadily, it has only recently become undeniable. ZetaTalk, and only ZetaTalk, warned of these weather changes, at that early date. Our early warnings spoke to the issue of global heating from the core outward, hardly Global Warming, a surface or atmospheric issue, but caused by consternation in the core. Affected by the approach of Planet X, which was by then starting to zoom rapidly toward the inner solar system for its periodic passage, the core was churning, melting the permafrost and glaciers and riling up volcanoes. When the passage did not occur as expected in 2003 because Planet X had stalled in the inner solar system, we explained the increasing weather irregularities in the context of the global wobble that had ensued - weather wobbles where the Earth is suddenly forced under air masses, churning them. This evolved by 2005 into a looping jet stream, loops breaking away and turning like a tornado to affect the air masses underneath. Meanwhile, on Planet Earth, droughts had become more intractable and deluges positively frightening, temperature swings bringing snow in summer in the tropics and searing heat in Artic regions, with the violence of storms increasing in number and ferocity."

ZETATALK

 

From the ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for February 4, 2012:

 

The wobble seems to have changed, as the temperature in Europe suddenly plunged after being like an early Spring, Alaska has its coldest temps ever while the US and much of Canada is having an extremely mild winter. India went from fatal cold spell to balmy again. Has the Earth changed position vs a vs Planet X to cause this? [and from another] Bitter cold records broken in Alaska - all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy's Law intervenes [Jan 30] http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/30/bitter-cold-records-broken-in-alaska Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in the weather station just at the critical moment. While the continental USA has a mild winter and has set a number of high temperature records in the last week and pundits ponder whether they will be blaming the dreaded "global warming" for those temperatures, Alaska and Canada have been suffering through some of the coldest temperatures on record during the last week.

There has been no change in the wobble pattern, the wobble has merely become more severe. Nancy noted a Figure 8 format when the Earth wobble first became noticeable, in early 2005, after Planet X moved into the inner solar system at the end of 2003. The Figure 8 shifted along to the east a bit on the globe between 2005 and 2009, (the last time Nancy took its measure) as Planet X came closer to the Earth, encountering the magnetic N Pole with a violent push earlier in the day. But the pattern of the Figure 8 remained essentially the same. So what changed recently that the weather patterns became noticeably different in late January, 2012?

The N Pole is pushed away when it comes over the horizon, when the noon Sun is centered over the Pacific. This regularly puts Alaska under colder air, with less sunlight, and thus the historically low temps there this January, 2012 as the wobble has gotten stronger. But by the time the Sun is positioned over India, the N Pole has swung during the Figure 8 so the globe tilts, and this tilt is visible in the weather maps from Asia. The tilt has forced the globe under the hot air closer to the Equator, warming the land along a discernable tilt demarcation line.

The next loop of the Figure 8 swings the globe so that the N Pole moves in the other direction, putting the globe again at a tilt but this time in the other direction. This tilt is discernable in weather maps of Europe, again along a diagonal line. Depending upon air pressure and temperature differences, the weather on either side of this diagonal line may be suddenly warm or suddenly cold. The tilt and diagonal line lingers to affect much of the US and Canada, but the Figure 8 changes at this point to be an up and down motion, pulling the geographic N Pole south so the US is experiencing a warmer than expected winter under a stronger Sun. Then the cycle repeats, with the magnetic N Pole of Earth pushed violently away again as the Sun is positioned over the Pacific.

 

From the ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for April 6, 2013:

 

Would the Zetas be able to let us know what is causing the early break-up of the Arctic Ice, the ice seems to have taken on a swirling pattern at the same time, would this be wobble related? [and from another] http://www.vancouversun.com/news/national/Canada+Arctic+cracks+spec... The ice in Canada’s western Arctic ripped open in a massive “fracturing event” this spring that spread like a wave across 1,000 kilometres of the Beaufort Sea. Huge leads of water – some more than 500 kilometres long and as much as 70 kilometres across – opened up from Alaska to Canada’s Arctic islands as the massive ice sheet cracked as it was pushed around by strong winds and currents. It took just seven days for the fractures to progress across the entire area from west to east. [and from another] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80752&src=iot... A high-pressure weather system was parked over the region, producing warmer temperatures and winds that flowed in a southwesterly direction. That fueled the Beaufort Gyre, a wind-driven ocean current that flows clockwise. The gyre was the key force pulling pieces of ice west past Point Barrow, the northern nub of Alaska that protrudes into the Beaufort Sea.

The Figure 8 formed by the N Pole during the daily Earth wobble has shifted somewhat to the East, due to Planet X positioned more to the right of the Earth during its approach. This was anticipated, and well described in ZetaTalk, the Earth crowding to the left in the cup to escape the approach of Planet X, so the angle between these two planets would change slightly. This shift of the Figure 8 to the East is due to the push against the Earth’s magnetic N Pole occurring sooner each day than prior. Thus instead of occurring when the Sun is high over the Pacific, over New Zealand, it is now occurring when the Sun is high over Alaska. All the wobble points have shifted eastward accordingly.

This has brought a lingering Winter to the western US, and a changed sloshing pattern to the Arctic waters. Instead of Pacific waters being pushed through the Bering Straits into the Arctic when the polar push occurs, the wobble is swinging the Arctic to the right, and then later to the left, creating a circular motion in the waters trapped in the Arctic. Since the Earth rotates counterclockwise, the motion also takes this path. This is yet another piece of evidence that the establishment is hard pressed to explain. They are attempting to ascribe this to high pressure and wind, all of which are not new to the Arctic, but this circular early breakup of ice in the Arctic is new.

[jorge namour]

The super-typhoon Neoguri approaches to Okinawa with winds of 250 km / h: "Supervision maximum" ---- JAPAN

Monday, July 7, 2014

PHOTO LINK: http://www.meteoweb.eu/2014/07/super-tifone-neoguri-inizia-ad-impre...

A powerful typhoon, the eighth season of the renamed Neoguri, and 'expected in Okinawa, far south of Japan, between late this evening and tomorrow morning with a load of torrential rains and winds of up to 250km per hour. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is assessing the level of alert in the evening to announce the imminent arrival of the perturbation, moving from south to north, it might be more 'serious of its kind in decades. The issuance of an alarm of "high level", if agreed, would be for the first time since the new system 'was introduced in August 2013. According to the agency, the typhoon will become' more 'always strong in the move towards north, while at the speed 'wind' of about 75 meters per second, while the displacement of the disruption 'of 25km/ora. During a meeting of the government on the situation, the Minister for Disaster Management, Keiji Furuya, who canceled a trip to the U.S. for an event on disaster prevention on the sidelines of a UN meeting, urged the prefectures and municipalities to take the necessary steps and to advise on time, where necessary, evacuations. The government has set up a unit 'link in the middle of Emergency Management Office of the Prime Minister. "It is one of the most looming 'big typhoons ever had in July," he admitted in a press conference Satoshi Ebihara, Head of Section of the JMA weather forecast: in 1959 the Typhoon Ise-wan I cause' 5,000 victims. "And 'required the utmost vigilance," he added, citing the heavy rains and winds, as well as' high waves up to 14 meters. The rainfall may reach a record number of 200 mm in the 24 hours is Okinawa archipelago. Meanwhile, a front of torrential rain is hitting the southern island of Kyushu, where in some areas were measured more 'than 350 millimeters of water. Extraordinary levels that would drive the JMA, to advise extreme caution due to landslides and floods. Also because 'Neoguri will be' on Kyushu tomorrow afternoon.

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METEOWEB Saturday, April 5, 2014,

Something very big is beginning to move over the

large strip of very hot water, flowing at a depth of about 150 meters along a route east west.

his wave can be observed on the surface by a slight increase in height of the sea surface, about 8 cm, and a significant increase in surface water temperatures over a large area for hundreds of miles
is causing a significant increase in the "thermocline" throughout the Western and Central Pacific, where there is a considerable warming of surface waters, up to 150 meters depth, with values ​​truly exceptional, reaching values ​​of +24 ° C to +25 ° C.

[Howard]

Multiple Tornadoes, Large Hail Reported in Saskatchewan (Jul 5)

Saskatchewan man shares breathtaking video of massive tornado near Outlook, Saskatchewan on July 5. Although at first it appears to be coming straight for him, it rumbles by without causing damage, although it later destroyed a nearby farm. It grows significantly larger just before the end of the video. (Caution: Audio contains multiple F-bombs.)  Source

Residents in parts of Saskatchewan ran for cover, stared in awe or jumped in their trucks to follow what Environment Canada says were several tornadoes that hit Saturday.

The agency issued tornado warnings for numerous areas in southern and central parts of Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba Saturday afternoon, and said there were tornadoes reported near Outlook and Kenaston.

Ray Derdall and his son Carson were working outside their property 20 kilometres north of Outlook Saturday afternoon when a black funnel cloud dropped down. They had almost no time to react.

"Within about 10 seconds, it was right on top of us," Ray said.

"It's so loud and dirty and dusty. You don't know what's going on, you can't see your nose."

Ray ran to the closest shelter - his workshop - while Carson made it to the steel Quonset and crawled under a combine cutter.

"I was just waiting for the whole quonset to lift off and I thought maybe it would suck me out," a visibly shell-shocked Carson recalled. "I thought I was going to die."

Then, less than five minutes after the tornado hit, it was over. Carson emerged unscathed from the battered Quonset to find his father wriggling out from underneath one of the walls that used to hold up the workshop.

Neither was injured, but it became apparent almost immediately that almost everything on their property was destroyed.

"It was just a direct hit. It took a 100-year-old barn that we were fixing up. It took the Quonset and it took the shop. It took the windows out of the house," said Derdall.

"It even sucked the comforters off the beds through the windows and out of the house."

Derdall said miraculously, neither he nor his son were injured.

Shannon Bestland, meteorologist with Environment Canada, said the agency was receiving multiple calls about funnel clouds touching down in south-central Saskatchewan as far south as Regina Beach.

“There are so many, we can’t count them right now,” she said Saturday afternoon.

Baseball-sized hail were also reported in some areas of Saskatchewan, she said.

SaskPower tweeted that tornadoes have caused outages at Davidson, Hanley, Kenaston, Rosedale and surrounding areas.

Derdall said it was his first experience with a tornado, other than seeing them on TV.

"You think it will never happen to you."

Sources

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/photos-and-videos-da...

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/tornadoes-reported-in-parts-of-saskatc...

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Tornadoes+cause+havoc+Saskatchew...

[Howard]

Manitoba Declares Rare Province-wide State of Emergency (Jul 4)

The Canadian province of Manitoba has declared a provincial state of emergency amid rising concerns on flooding and has requested military assistance.

Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger said Friday he has asked Prime Minister Stephen Harper to have Canadian Armed Forces soldiers on the ground in Manitoba by Saturday to assist with flood relief efforts.

"We need to be able to take action to protect the safety, health and welfare of Manitobans," said Selinger.

"Declaring a provincial state of emergency will allow us to take steps quickly to protect people and property in the area."

Canadian Forces personnel will work to reinforce the dikes along the Assiniboine River between Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg, where 200 homes are at risk.

They will also help raise the dikes along the Portage Diversion — a 29-kilometre channel that directs some of the flood water from the Assiniboine north to Lake Manitoba.

The regional municipalities of Portage la Prairie, Cartier, St. Francois Xavier and Headingley are the biggest areas of concern. They are being advised to prepare for flood levels more than 30 centimetres (12 inches) higher than those of 2011.

A command centre is being established near Portage la Prairie to assist with liaison efforts between the military and the affected communities, Selinger said.

Floodwaters began washing across a road in Brandon on Friday even though the crest isn't expected to reach the city until this weekend and then Portage la Prairie by July 11.

Steve Topping with Manitoba Water Stewardship​ called the rate at which the water is flowing "unprecedented."

"Things are ramping up very quickly. This is a fast moving event and we have very good hydrometric gauges that are providing us 24/7 information," he said.

Manitoba is bracing for water flow levels between 48,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) and 52,000 cfs on the Assiniboine River downstream of Portage la Prairie.

The high water levels are expected within the next week and are forecast to remain high for a period of at least three weeks.

The flooding is being caused by torrential rains last weekend in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

A total of 43 communities in Manitoba and 75 in Saskatchewan are under states of local emergency. Water from Saskatchewan is now flowing into Manitoba, deepening the problem in that province.

Some 565 people have already been forced from their homes in Manitoba due to flooding.

Selinger said the province will work to produce a half-million sandbags — in addition to the two million it already has in stock — to protect the areas most at risk as the crest moves closer.

Sources

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-flooding-province-d...

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/rare-province-wide-s...

[jorge namour]

Bad weather in Spain, Madrid violent hailstorm Whitening: blocked traffic [PHOTOS and VIDEO]

Thursday, July 3, 2014,

A strong hailstorm has hit the capital of Spain, Madrid, in the early hours of the afternoon (between 15 and 16). The event was so violent as to whiten the streets causing disruption of some major thoroughfares, such as the M-40 motorway huge town that surrounds the city, and the M-11. Even the flights arriving at and departing from Madrid airport at Barajas, have been delayed. At least 4 planes had to postpone the landing due to adverse weather conditions, while several areas of the airport were flooded. The underground line 7, has had to suspend some races between the stations of Cartagena and Las Musas, always to flooding (the races were re-established after 30 minutes).

The hail struck with violence especially the eastern half of the city, particularly in the districts of San Blas, Barajas (where the international airport), Vicalvaro, but also Hortaleza and Fuencarral. The streets were literally whitewashed, to the bewilderment of Madrid who have immortalized the event with photos and video, promptly loaded on social networks. Below is a gallery of pictures from Twitter under the hashtag # granizada, a term which in Spanish means precisely hailstorm.

http://www.meteoweb.eu/2014/07/maltempo-in-spagna-violenta-grandina...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD8kt2C2Ojc

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Also Hail grandinata ad Almazán in Spagna [FOTO e VIDEO]

http://www.meteoweb.eu/2014/07/le-impressionanti-immagini-della-vio...

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[lonne rey]

Early signs of autumn 'already appearing in natural world'

Sycamore seeds are well developed and hawthorn berries are already red, says National Trust

After an early spring and summer, the year is now racing towards autumn ahead of schedule, conservationists have said.

As the year reached the half-way mark, the National Trust said wildlife seemed to have come through the wettest and stormiest winter on record and nature had hurtled "helter-skelter" through the seasons since.

Now signs of autumn are already in the hedgerows and woods, National Trust naturalist Matthew Oates said.

"Looking at this year, where does it want to be? It raged its way through winter, then we went into an incredibly early spring, and then it rushed helter-skelter through spring without stopping for breath," he said.

"We're ahead still, remarkably ahead, birds have largely stopped singing, a lot of butterflies are very early and are still coming out early," he said, pointing to early arrivals of high summer butterflies including chalk hill blues and purple emperors.

And he said: "There are really strong signs of autumn already here, like the beech nuts, it's an amazing beech mast year and the nuts are incredibly well developed."

Source

[Howard]

2 Derechos Spawn 8 Tornadoes in Illinois and Indiana (Jun 30)

The first derecho over Iowa as of 1:45 p.m. ET June 30, 2014.

Two separate derechos affected the Chicago area Monday night resulting in eight tornadoes that touched down in the Chicago area and Northwest Indiana.

The two-fisted storm that pummeled the Chicago area this week has been classified as a rare double derecho: Two waves of destructive winds that swept across a swath of the Midwest from central Iowa to Ohio. The fast-tracking storm generated widespread wind gusts of 70-80 mph, left three quarters of a million without power, and caused two fatalities.

The first derecho formed around 2 p.m. Monday in Iowa and sped across northwest Illinois into Wisconsin over the next five hours, packing winds of more than 55 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

The second derecho also formed in Iowa, but a little more to the south and six hours later, heading almost straight east toward Chicago, the weather service said. The winds were clocked at more than 60 mph with gusts up to 70 mph.

This second wave produced eight tornadoes that touched down in northern Illinois, including one between Plainfield and Romeoville, the weather service said. No injuries were reported, but hundreds of trees were downed and nearly 200,000 customers lost power.

A derecho is a wind storm that stretches more than 240 miles and is punctuated by wind gusts of more than 55 mph. They are relatively uncommon and a double derecho is even rarer, though another one did occur here as recently as 2010, according to weather service meteorologist Ricky Castro.

What makes Monday's double derecho even stranger is that the second wave was stronger than the first.  It's generally the other way around.

"Usually, the first one stabilizes the atmosphere and makes it less likely for thunderstorms to occur," Castro said. But this time, "the first derecho was less intense and the second one was violent and spawned tornadoes."

The National Weather Service said brief EF-1 tornadoes landed late Monday near Earlville, about 80 miles southwest of Chicago; near Romeoville and Plainfield in Will County; near Lisbon in rural Kendall County; three tornadoes were near Grant Park in Kankakee County. In Indiana, one tornado was confirmed in Lowell and another near DeMotte.

Sources

http://abc7chicago.com/weather/nws-8-tornadoes-confirmed-in-chicago...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-onetwo-punch-...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/07...

http://www.weather.com/news/derecho-and-severe-storms-cause-damage-...

[KM]

http://www.inthesnow.com/resorts/heavy-snow-brings-july-joy-australia/

HEAVY SNOW BRINGS JULY JOY IN AUSTRALIA 
RESORTS NEWS | 1 JULY 2014

By Patrick Thorne 

Australian ski areas – which started their season badly on June 7th with almost no snow following a record warm May, are celebrating snowfalls of up to almost five feet (1.4m in fact) during the last four days.

The snow has now stopped leaving resorts well-covered ahead of the weekend and the country’s school holiday period.

“We expect to have over 40 lifts operating for the weekend across the four resorts areas of Perisher, Smiggin Holes, Blue Cow and Guthega,” said Samantha Hales, Communications and Media Manager at Australia’s biggest resort which now has a 102.1 cm base,

“There is a lot of work to do to get the resort open after a big storm as we need to get out there and groom out the wind drift, build lift tracks and ensure the resorts is safe for guests.”

Meanwhile at Mt Hotham called the snowfall ‘Snowmageddon 1.0’ and are expecting ‘Snowmageddon 2.0’ to follow bon later this weekend,

“Snowmageddon 1.0  started last Monday and brought the snowfall we have all been waiting for. Within 3 days we had over 70cm of snow, got 6 lifts going and are looking forward to the best school holiday skiing and riding in years.  Another front is coming in on Saturday and we will be hitting the 1-meter mark by Saturday night/Sunday morning,” said a statement from the resort, which currently has seven  lifts running.

[Derrick Johnson]

California's Record Hottest Year, So Far, Is 2014: NOAA

California is sweating through its hottest year-to-date in 2014, according to a just-released report.

Statewide temperature rankings for the period January-May 2014. A ranking of 120 (California) means 2014 was the hottest January-May period on record. Conversely, a ranking of 4 (Wisconsin) means the fourth coldest such period on record, dating to 1895. (NOAA/NCDC)

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The first five months of 2014 were the hottest on record in the Golden State, according to the May U.S. State of the Climate report from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, in records dating to 1895.

California's mean January-May temperature of 55.2 degrees was a whopping five degrees above their 20th Century average, topping the previous hottest January-May period there set in the Dust Bowl era (1934).

Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Fresno and Sacramento all set their record hottest January through May. 

Persistent blocking high pressure in the upper atmosphere diverting the jet stream north of the Golden State is the primary factor behind a hot 2014, not to mention one of the worst droughts in decades.

(MORE: Record Dry 2013 | Drought Threatens Food Supply)

Selected cities recording their top three warmest, coldest, wettest or driest January-May in 2014. (NOAA/NCDC)

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Notable Heat Elsewhere

Arizona, Oregon, Nevada and Utah also chalked up a top 10 warmest January-May period in 2014.

Las Vegas, Phoenix and Tucson have each registered their hottest year-to-date through May. The year has been among the top three hottest in Salt Lake City, Flagstaff, Arizona, and Medford, Oregon. (see red dots on inset map at right)

Impressive warmth in 2014 extended into the Last Frontier.

The year's first five months were the second warmest such period on record in Alaska, exceeded only by January-May 1981. America's northernmost city, Barrow, Alaska, has had its record warmest January-May.

Not Just the Heat

In parts of the central and eastern U.S., the first five months of 2014 were a completely different story.

Thirteen states from Minnesota to Louisiana east to Pennsylvania shivered in a top 10 coldest January-May on record (see first inset map above).

Chicago, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Toledo, Green Bay, Wisconsin, even the nation's icebox, International Falls, Minnesota chalked up a top three coldest January-May periods in 2014 (see second inset map above for more cities denoted by blue dots).

On the dry side, January through May was the second driest such period on record in Kansas, third driest in Oklahoma and fourth driest in Arizona.

Source: http://www.weather.com/news/science/california-record-hottest-year-...

[Howard]

Waterlogged Canadian Prairies: 150+ mm of Rain Prompts Evacuations, Local States of Emergencies   (June 30)

Days of torrential downpours across parts of the Prairies have resulted in evacuations and local states of emergencies. In Saskatchewan, 53 communities have declared local states of emergency while in Manitoba, 34 municipalities have done the same.

The hardest hit areas include communities along the Saskatchewan/Manitoba border where between 100-200 mm of rain has been recorded since Friday.

Several main highways and secondary roads remain closed and officials say water also covers stretches of the Trans-Canada Highway west of Brandon, Manitoba. 

Flights at Brandon's airport have also been disrupted after the facility's main access road was flooded. 

Residents are being urged to delay showers, baths, and even flushing toilets to prevent additional strain on the water systems.

In addition to the flooding rains, damaging winds that whipped through Manitoba left hundreds of homes without power over the weekend.

According to hydro spokesperson Scott Powell, they've been overloaded with calls throughout southern Manitoba and the Interlake region, with power lines affected in both urban and rural areas.

Sources

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/waterlogged-prairies...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/prairie-flooding-prompts-eva...

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/ten-photos-flooding-...

[Derrick Johnson]

Wild weather extremes mark USA's first half of 2014

Abandoned cars pile up in the median of I-75 near the Chattahoochee River overpass Jan. 29 in Atlanta. The interstate was covered in ice after a bad snowstorm.(Photo: David Tulis, AP)

Crazy extremes of wet and dry weather have both drenched and scorched the USA in the first half of the year.

How crazy? Waterlogged Pensacola, Fla., has received more than 200 times as much rain as bone-dry Las Vegas, which has had only one rainy day this year, Feb. 28, when about one-third of an inch fell.

Though Las Vegas is admittedly in the desert Southwest, the tiny amount is still quite paltry, about one-sixth what the city would usually get at this point in the year. Southwest hot spot Yuma, Ariz., has received less than one-tenth of an inch of rain this year.

The entire state of California — which had its warmest winter on record — slipped into drought conditions this spring, with nearly a third of the state in "exceptional" drought, the worst level. The state is enduring its worst drought since the 1970s. "Unprecedented" May wildfires scorched parts of the state.

On the flip side, torrential rain swamped the Southeast this spring, with April being the worst month. Mobile, Ala., had its wettest April ever, with a foot and a half of rain. The worst of the rain in Pensacola was in late April, when almost 2 feet fell in two days, leading to widespread flooding, sinkholes, road closures and record-high river levels.

Overall, for much of the year, the reason for the split weather pattern was a persistent ridge of high pressure over the western half of the USA, which was balanced by a trough of low pressure in the East, climate scientist Jake Crouch of the National Climatic Data Center said earlier this year.

High pressure usually brings clear skies, while low pressure brings clouds and precipitation.

Other wild weather from the year's first six months:

• A massive mudslide in Oso, Wash., in March, fueled by weeks of unusually heavy rain, killed at least 42 people, making it the third-deadliest in U.S. history.

• The brutally cold winter brought near-record levels of ice to the Great Lakes, wreaking havoc with shipping and wildlife. The ice persisted into June in Lake Superior, the latest on record.

• Detroit picked up an all-time record 7.9 feet of snow for the entire winter season of 2013-14, more than twice the city's average.

• Two inches of snow in Atlanta in late January brought the city to its knees, stranding motorists and school buses overnight. The same storm brought snow as far south as the Florida Panhandle.

• After a very quiet start to the severe weather season, a savage outbreak of tornadoes killed 33 people in the Midwest and South in late April, with the deadliest hitting Arkansas on April 27. June has also seen a flurry of tornadoes in the Plains, the most active June for tornadoes in at least four years.

• Through the end of May, Alaska was baking through its second-warmest year on record. The state had its warmest January since 1985.

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/06/27/weather-extremes/1...