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Asia Takes Extremes To Next Level

Written by on February 27, 2024 in Asia, Rest of World with 0 Comments
Asia Takes Extremes To Next Level

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! […]

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Coldest Air In Decades Affects Europe & North America

Coldest Air In Decades Affects Europe & North America

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 […]

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India & Pakistan Remain Unusually COOL While SE Asia Continues To SWELTER In ALL-TIME Record Heat!

Written by on May 8, 2023 in Asia with 0 Comments
India & Pakistan Remain Unusually COOL While SE Asia Continues To SWELTER In ALL-TIME Record Heat!

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 […]

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Extreme Weather Sweeps Asia To Start 2023

Written by on April 23, 2023 in Asia, Rest of World with 0 Comments
Extreme Weather Sweeps Asia To Start 2023

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 […]

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Japan Joins France In Recording Earliest 40C & Hottest June Day On Record

Written by on June 27, 2022 in Asia, Rest of World with 0 Comments
Japan Joins France In Recording Earliest 40C & Hottest June Day On Record

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 […]

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Strong Polar Vortex Cools North Atlantic… Cold April Ahead For Europe As Vortex Breaks?

Written by on March 16, 2022 in Rest of Europe, Rest of World with 0 Comments
Strong Polar Vortex Cools North Atlantic… Cold April Ahead For Europe As Vortex Breaks?

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 […]

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Global Temperature: How’s The Continent’s Looking for 1st 2.5 Months of 2022?

Global Temperature: How’s The Continent’s Looking for 1st 2.5 Months of 2022?

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 […]

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La Nina continues to cool the lower troposphere

La Nina continues to cool the lower troposphere

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 […]

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Too Much Snow Even For The World’s 2nd Snowiest City!

Written by on February 9, 2022 in Asia with 0 Comments
Too Much Snow Even For The World’s 2nd Snowiest City!

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 […]

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Has La Nina Cooled Our Planet?

Has La Nina Cooled Our Planet?

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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