What will 2018 weather be like

Nowhere on Earth is heating faster than the Arctic. Broadcast meteorologist Laura Tobin visited Svalbard to look at the impacts of climate change, and what it will mean for us. Heavy rain and autumn gales will sweep across the UK this weekend, marking almost a year since the UK experienced its wettest day on record, when enough rainfall fell to fill Loch Ness!

About Awards Winners Winners Call for nominations. Posted in: Weather. A tropical cyclone made landfall in Somalia. The first Category 3 landfall of record in southwest Oman dumped over 24 inches of rain. A flight was diverted to El Paso, Texas, after being pummeled by hail. It snowed in Newfoundland days after the summer solstice. A Montana town was raked by severe weather three times in 24 hours.

Smoke from Siberian wildfires invaded the U. Perhaps 's most impressive meteotsunami inundated Mallorca, Spain. A different fire whirl became a waterspout over the Colorado River.

This British Columbia fire whirl sucked up a firefighter's hose. Hurricane Florence had a weird and unfortunate track that smashed state rain records. Western Colorado went from severe thunderstorms to snow in one hour.

Video captured a Texas bridge ripped apart by floodwater. Hurricane Leslie loafed, lollygagged, then ended up off Portugal. Anchorage had a record-long wait for its first freeze of the fall Oct. Houston had its record earliest trace of snow and Monroe, Louisiana, had its record earliest accumulation. North America had its most widespread November snow cover since Airplanes triggered snow near Chicago. A tropical cyclone rained fish over India. Daily 12 Today. By Jonathan Erdman December 21, At a Glance Our roundup of 's weirdest weather had a little of everything.

Unusually, temperatures across Northern Ireland also exceeded 30C. The fine and hot weather persisted through July and into early August, with the highest temperature of the year — Heat extremes were also felt across much of the northern hemisphere. However, in contrast to the other extreme summers such as or , the UK did not experience any extended spells of exceptionally high temperatures in The summer overall was the equal-warmest for the UK, tying with , and For England, it was the warmest summer and equal fourth warmest in the Central England Temperature series from To understand why the summer was so warm and dry over the UK, there are a number of factors to consider.

Primarily, the jet stream — a fast-flowing river of air high up in the atmosphere — weakened and stayed north of the UK, allowing high pressure to become established over the UK and Europe. This comprised a band of warmer than average conditions at mid-latitudes, with cooler than average conditions to the north and south. You can see this below in the maps of June temperature anomalies in left and right.

And, finally, the sea surface temperatures in the immediate vicinity of the UK were also well above average for the time of year, which will have also helped elevate UK temperatures during the summer. June surface air temperature anomalies in left and right , relative to A crucial factor in the magnitude of the heatwave is that the summer weather was playing out in a warmer world.

Human-induced climate change has made summer temperatures like those of about 30 times more likely than would be expected from natural fluctuations in climate alone.

A total of 10 named storms affected the UK during — of which four occurred in January. Large storms are named to help communication of approaching severe weather. Storm Hector and Storm Ali were notable as unusually severe storms for the time of year, bringing close to record-breaking wind gusts for June, and one of the most notable September storms in recent decades, respectively. Monthly rainfall is about 56mm in June and about 57mm in July. Kazan looks set to stay fine too with an average June high of On average the monthly rainfall in June reaches 63mm and 67mm in July.

Nizhny Novgorod has an average June high of Monthly rainfall is slightly higher here at about 76mm in June and about 73mm in July. Ekaterinburg has an average June high of 23C and an average July high of Monthly rainfall is about 75mm in June and can reach up to 90mm in July. Monthly rainfall is about 80mm in June and 85mm in July.