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By JILLIAN MacMATH, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer. As a strong El Niño fades, the weather across the country will slowly change. In much of the eastern United States, a hot summer is in store.
As the year began, a tropical low was over Australia, [4] and Cyclone Ula was moving toward Tonga. [5] Ula was followed by another 16 tropical cyclones, [6] [7] including Cyclone Winston, which was the most intense tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere on record, with 10 minute sustained winds of 280 km/h (175 mph), and a minimum pressure of 884 mbar (26.1 inHg).
A high risk severe weather event is the greatest threat level issued by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for convective weather events in the United States. On the scale from one to five, a high risk is a level five; thus, high risks are issued only when forecasters at the SPC are confident of a major severe weather outbreak.
The 2016–17 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was a below-average season, with five tropical storms, three of which intensified into tropical cyclones. It officially began on November 15, 2016, and ended on April 30, 2017, with the exception for Mauritius and the Seychelles , for which it ended on May 15, 2017.
Summer has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere following the June solstice, and it could be hotter than last summer in many big cities across the central and eastern United States. Early spells of ...
Severe weather to follow early fall warmth in the Midwest The beginning of fall may seem like an extension of the summer season for much of the Midwest, as heat waves grip the region into September.
Post-El Niño weather during the spring usually result in increased rainfall, as demonstrated during the Memorial Day 2015 and Tax Day/Memorial Day/early June 2016 flood events, where the Houston Metro area (and the rest of the state) experienced a climate similar to the South Asian summer monsoon (in this case, a stalled low-pressure system ...
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