cyclone Archives

How do we Measure the El Niño Effect: Understanding Ocean Anomalies for a Better Future

January 17, 2025June 24, 2023 by Saša Zidar

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The El Niño effect has long fascinated meteorologists and climate scientists due to its profound influence on global weather patterns. Over the last three decades, … Read more

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Ellie lashes Australia with record-breaking flooding, setting its sight on Queensland with widespread severe storms and heavy rainfall over the next week

February 16, 2025January 10, 2023 by Brad Hannon

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Whilst a new year has arrived, northern Australia is still feeling the influence of a 2022 event. Ex-Tropical Cyclone Ellie has been wreaking havoc across … Read more

Monsoonal conditions will increase across northern Australia this week, with flooding to develop across the barren interior of the country as a tropical low shifts south

February 16, 2025December 20, 2022 by Brad Hannon

Despite northern Australia registering its 7th wettest November on record in 2022, rainfall for December has been below average. Not only has northern Australia seen … Read more

The Gulf Stream continues to slow down, new data shows, with freshwater creating an imbalance in the current, pushing it closer to a Collapse point

February 21, 2024April 2, 2022 by Andrej Flis

The Gulf Stream has weakened substantially in the past decades, as revealed by the latest data and new studies. Weather in the United States and … Read more

A Rare Medicane Forms South of Italy, Prompts Red Alert Warning for Sicily, Malta and Libya as More Extreme Rain and Destructive Floods Heads Their Way Over the Weekend

October 28, 2021 by Marko Korosec

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An extreme anomaly of seawater temperatures in the region between Italy, Malta, Greece, and Libya has led to a formation of an intense Tropical-Like Cyclone … Read more

A Significant Warming Heads Into Europe Ahead of a Large North Atlantic Depression Next Week, While to the North the Polar Vortex Lobe digs Towards Russia

October 19, 2021October 16, 2021 by Marko Korosec

After a long period of below-normal temperatures recently, Europe is now ahead of a very significant warmth arriving with a large North Atlantic mid-latitude cyclone. … Read more

A Large Cold Pool from the North Atlantic heads towards Western Europe as Deep Cyclone Develops, a Massive Snow Blizzard Spread into Northern Iceland on Tuesday

September 28, 2021September 27, 2021 by Marko Korosec

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September 2021 over Europe was a pretty dynamic month, bringing two events of a much colder air mass into eastern parts of the continent. This … Read more

A Rare August Tropical-Like Cyclone – (Medicane alike) Will Form in the Black Sea this Weekend and Impact Coastal Areas with a Dangerous Flooding Threat

August 12, 2021 by Marko Korosec

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A Medicane or a cyclone with tropical characteristics is a severe weather event that forms in the Mediterranean Sea. This weekend, strongly anomalous Black Sea … Read more