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!

Between 20-27 Feb

It seems when it’s warm, it’s record very warm or off the scale warm but ‘at times’ when cold, it’s VERY cold to record cold.

In my personal opinion, here is some explanation to these extremes.

• Abnormally warm NW Pacific coupled with La Nina last summer.
• Development of a strong El Nino
• Relentless summer/autumn heat waves
• Strong +IOD/MJO enhancing sinking over maritime continent (drought, record heat SE Asia)
• Solar max?
• Hunga Tonga eruption?
• Warm overall oceans/land/atmosphere?

China & Mongolia

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1745425554537627975

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1745775196148281554

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1746151465486606413

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1749046928170717294

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1749398434866725107

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1756616848232398935

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1757078432515805534

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1757414542215397687

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1758830520085934312

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1759104503150960873

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1759214886767456393

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1760308655449378963

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1759930041721606208

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1760282715713311051

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1760283773789462980

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1760289908055580730

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1760623857747234868

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1760639057963712554

https://twitter.com/ThierryGooseBC/status/1760324728063926320

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1760992452297867380

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1761009110529839440

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1761074586991636766

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1761388064256250029

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1761618648035365238

https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1762076277165723872

Korea & Japan

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1749652529317810654

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1753104305593434386

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1757659591163466010

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1757721276020588629

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1759503471127236765

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1759943725818470710

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1760253830418338178

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1760575150565519593

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1760253830418338178

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1760960189996625948

https://twitter.com/StabilizClimate/status/1760859223376990632

Central Asia

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1745036875180732579

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1756293049989431774

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1757741375398027580

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1758316114998943880

SE Asia

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1742908741530349928

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1744977374687699404

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1745687300456280178

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1746172342227919351

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1746353455298715853

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1746804214385570219

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1749780686028857504

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1751947223674540122

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1755803710926565585

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1755833909164806526

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1756933568398496221

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1756939342684278958

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1757379958006018135

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1757772623017340956

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1758873574402617396

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1761277200261656639

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1761584966616629444

Siberia

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1746841310009672078

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1759180837420175568

FEATURED IMAGE CREDIT: By Uwe Dedering – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12152499

Tags: asia, china, japan, southeast asia, thailand