Atlantic tropical cyclone activity typically picks up a bit during the first half of July. Since the current active hurricane period began in 1995, seven of 14 years (50%) have had a named storm form during the first half of July. The busiest first half of July occurred in 2005, when three hurricanes formed. These included Read This Blog Entry
Weather Underground Forecast for Monday, July 06, 2009. A somewhat sloppy weather pattern is expected to move through portions of the continent on Monday.
A large low pressure system will begin the day off the northern coast of Ireland but will move gradually eastward into the North Sea by the end of the day. It will begin to merge with another low pressure system that will hang around the Scandinavian Peninsula. All of this activity will result in widespread precipitation through the United Kingdom and into northern France, Belgium, and Holland. Breezy conditions are also anticipated through the English Channel region.
An additional area of precipitation will fall through southern Sweden and areas of the southern Baltic States.
Meanwhile, scattered showers will develop in Italy and the other Adriatic country, but will gradually wane throughout the day.
The Black Sea region will remain mostly dry.
Generally mild conditions are anticipated for the continent, with the coldest air entrenched over the northern Baltic Sea area.
London will rise into the lower 70s(F)/lower 20s(C), while Paris will see temperatures in the lower 70s(F)/lower 20s(C). Moscow will rise into the mid-50s(F)/lower 10s(C).
On this date in 1998, a tropical weather system in the Caribbean Sea and its potentially tremendous rainfall were a possibly welcomed idea to the 110,000 Floridians still evacuated from their homes due to wildfires.