A thread for weather extremes that don’t normally get reported

Torrential rain in London at the moment. https://www.earthcam.com/world/england/london/abbeyroad/?cam=abbeyroad_uk

Tsunami in Mallorca caused by changes in air pressure. I man was swept to his death.

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/mini-tsunami-causes-flooding-at-beaches-and-restaurants-in-majorca-and-menorca-11439415

Meteorite58 wrote: »

I would have run a mile!

https://twitter.com/Meteo_Europe/status/1019244926054404101

I was on the East coast of Majorca on Monday afternoon.
On Monday morning I was surprised to see that the sandbanks at my local beach were all gone, all the seagrass patches were gone and the sea water temperature was down about 5c.

I had no idea about the tsunami until I got home, so now I realise that the tsunamis had washed away all the warm water from my local beach!

We were lucky it happened in the early morning so no children were on the beach.

I don't have a link,but a number of people have died in Japan due to an extreme heat wave , temperatures reached up to 40c

Driest Summer (up to this period of time) on record in Sweden since records began in the 19th century?

https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/1021151136269701120

https://twitter.com/wanstead_meteo/status/1021422101583089664

What I'd give for a few weeks of 18-22c and overnight rain every night

Sweden heatwave: hottest July in (at least) 260 years


Stockholm started recording monthly average temperatures as early as 1756, and with no end in sight to the ongoing heatwave, Swedish meteorologists can already say this year will go down in history.

https://www.thelocal.se/20180723/sweden-heatwave-hottest-july-in-at-least-260-years

July 26 and 27 were record-breaking hot days over here in The Netherlands. Most of the official weather stations broke the record for either or both of highest maximum and minimum temperature. Heatwave ended overnight with some rain and thunder, but still looking at less than 5mm of rain since June 14. Hot and dry weather to return next week and no end to it anytime soon.







Dutch records highest max temp: http://www.wetterzentrale.de/extremes_y.php?station=9999999&country=3&order=1&extreem=X_TX
Dutch records highest min temp: http://www.wetterzentrale.de/extremes_y.php?station=9999999&country=3&order=1&extreem=X_TN

Note: the highest temperature ever recorded in The Netherlands is 38.6 C on August 23 1944 in Warnsveld. It is not listed in above links since it no longer has an official weather station.

https://twitter.com/Livestormchaser/status/1023631086696333312

The Portuguese Met have a statement on their website correcting the 50-degree max temperature forecasts automatically generated by their model on their website and app. Good to see this sort of thing being published.

http://www.ipma.pt/pt/media/noticias/news.detail.jsp?f=/pt/media/noticias/textos/escl_temp_elevadas_agosto.html

sryanbruen wrote: »

https://twitter.com/severeweatherEU/status/1025358072678674432

Could be some epic lake effect snow downwind from the Baltic Sea later in the autumn and into early winter, of the SSTs are slow to drop.

Robert, LSD has strange effects.

Top temperatures today from the Spanish met office

JCX BXC wrote: »

42c (rounded) reported on the 14:30 METAR in Lisbon airport. The all time record is 42c, so looks like it could be beaten.

43c reported at 3pm, so the record has been broken.

Artane2002 wrote: »

That old record is only a year old, set on the 17th of June 2017.

Was it not set on the 1st August 2003? I'm seeing the highest June temp as 40.8c.

You're not getting mixed up between Spain and Portugal?

46.8 °C at Alvega, Portugal, yesterday, was the highest reported in all of Iberia during this heatwave. In Spain, the highest was 46.6 at El Granado.

National records weren't broken, but 24 Portuguese station records were (though the majority of these stations are relatively new).