The first 2.5 months of 2022 is warm across north/west Canada incl Alaska, cool for central Canada, much of the Lower 48, warm for Europe and very warm across north Asia, cool for India and west/north China. Most of Africa and large swathe of South America (esp west, central) is at or below normal.
Tropics is largely average to slightly below average thanks to La Nina.
As has been the case for some years during the winter months, much of the world’s warmth is stacked up over the pole, tropics is least warm.
Abnormally warm waters in the northern basins of both Pacific and Atlantic has a lot to do with how warm the NH is. Warmer water, greater release of water vapour.
Been a significant amount of cooling of the North Atlantic in recent weeks, months and in the last 12 months. This cooling, likely driven in large part to the near record strong polar vortex during February which stirred up a lot of storm activity which therefore forced a lot of upwelling. Could this ‘cooling’ have impacts on the rest of spring/summer, especially with the anticipated early demise of the PV?
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