Fairly Calm Week

It has been relatively quiet weather-wise across the globe this week with no significant events affecting heavily populated areas. However, there were still some extreme weather events that took place, although more localized.

This past Thursday, a cold front pushing south across Hong Kong and parts of south-east China dropped excessive amounts of rainfall, triggering flood concerns. The front had significant warm and moist air to work with as it slowly moved south towards the South China Sea. Several reports came in from south-eastern China showing 50mm of rain in a 24 hour period, concerning residents of increased flood risk this weekend and into next week thanks to another low pressure through making its way into the region.

In other news, isolated severe storms pushed through the state of Louisiana Wednesday. The long cold front extended from Southern Ontario all the way down to Louisiana; where dynamics were most favorable for severe storms midday Wednesday. A weak tornado even touched down in Keeling, a suburb of New Orleans, causing power outages and downing trees. After the storms moved through, 32,000 people in the area were left without power, but it has since been restored. There is a chance for more severe weather in the same area on Sunday and severe weather in the Plains region early next week. Following those events, there isn’t any indication of severe weather until at least next weekend as moisture gets flushed out. What comes after that remains to be seen as there is much uncertainty between weather models.