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It’s been a crazy past 6-12 months across large swathes of Asia. Relentless record heat with spells of extreme cold. The wild and erratic swings have been eye popping. As you can see, warmth has been dominant in the past 90 days or the period between late November through late February. Anomaly between 16-23 Feb! […]
While record warmth affects some, record cold affects others through the first half of January 2024. Scandinavia got in on the act first with some remarkably low temperatures unseen for many years. The cold began in October and was building through November and December. 2024 likely got off to the coldest open to a new […]
India and Pakistan observed a cooler, wetter than average April and has begun May extremely cool compared to what is typically approaching the hottest time of year as the monsoon season nears. April temp anomaly as per CDAS data, courtesy of Weatherbell.com. May’s opening week! Asia again with sharp contrasts: -New record heat wave in […]
It’s been a wild winter and spring across Asia with extremes for both cold and heat. Thanks to it’s vast size, topography and position within the largest continent on earth linking tropics with arctic, China observed a particularly extreme ride so far in 2023. Firstly, the the far north, saw China’s first -50C since 1969 […]
The levels of heat observed over recent days in parts of China and Japan has been incredible. A new national June record has been achieved in Japan along with the earliest 40C ever observed. *RECORD BREAKING*Isesaki, 80 km north of Tokyo, recorded 40.1℃ (104F) on Saturday afternoon, making it the NATIONAL RECORD HIGH for the […]
A lack of ‘weather’ during much of the past 12 months likely contributed to a build-up of warmth throughout the North and even wider Atlantic basin and given other external drivers, this aided another very mild winter throughout Europe (see previous article). However, a near record strong mean zonal wind and cold strat-trop polar vortex […]
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 […]
The ongoing La Nina and warm and cool ocean anomalies within the northern basins have clearly driven the lower tropospheric temperature. Strong warmth within the LT (lower troposphere) has shown up above the abnormally warm N Pacific and Atlantic as well as over much of northern Eurasia with no warming above the entire equatorial belt […]
From Wikipedia Geography Sapporo is a city located in the southwest part of Ishikari Plain and the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, a tributary stream of the Ishikari River.[15] It is part of Ishikari Subprefecture. Roadways in the urban district are laid to make a grid plan. The western and southern parts of Sapporo are occupied by a number of […]
I’m sure for folks living in the UK and much of Europe, after what has been a mild and snowless winter, most won’t be thinking about the title above. It’s always important to keep in mind that what goes on in your own back yard doesn’t necessarily reflect the bigger picture. The below temperature anomaly […]
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