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March and spring’s opening month was dominated by a strongly +AO/NAO with a deep trough stretching from Alaska to Greenland with strong ridging over North America & Europe. Unfortunately the below 500mb geopotential anomaly below only goes out to the 17th. The ridging over North America and eastern Europe was unusually strong and persistent… This […]
The period between January 15th and February 10th will go down as one of the coldest and snowiest in recent decades for Eastern North America. The result of a stretched polar vortex with similarity to 2013-14 and 2014-15. Tweet by Ben Noll (Feb 13th) It’s been the coldest winter in more than two decades for […]
Winter 2025-26’s first period has been truly remarkable for extreme cold, warmth then flip back to cold or very cold. Within the wilds of the Northwest corner of North America, December and first half of January has displayed true ‘old fashioned’ winter. December Away from Alaska and Canada’s Yukon and Northwest Territories, there was a […]
Bi-Polar November’s seem to be a thing this recently. Abrupt swings from strong southwesterlies bringing record warmth to northerlies ushering in heavy snow and cold… Global temp & precip anomaly for November 2025 Europe The first 10 days was warm, even record warm across the continent with UK observing it’s warmest bonfire night on record. […]
It was another healthy Southwest Monsoon season for India and Asia as a whole but not without large regional variation. Here’s an AI Summary The 2025 Asian monsoon was characterized by above-normal rainfall, higher-than-average temperatures, and intense extreme weather events across many regions. Devastating flooding and landslides affected millions of people and led to widespread casualties, […]
Below information/statistics from Wikipedia The list of weather records includes the most extreme occurrences of weather phenomena for various categories. Many weather records are measured under specific conditions—such as surface temperature and wind speed—to keep consistency among measurements around the Earth. Each of these records is understood to be the record value officially observed, as these records may have […]
It was one for the record books, a true ‘once in a lifetime’ event for the Gulf Coast states. Two high pressure cells, one over the Rockies and the other over the East-Central states driving dry polar air out over the Gulf of Mexico combined with a developing low pressure system to crate an exceptionally […]
The below forecast is based on current and projected ENSO conditions across the equatorial Pacific, very warm Atlantic and ocean/atmosphere model projections. First of all let’s see what’s considered normal. Tropical Cyclone Climatology Table 1. Progress of the average Atlantic season (1991-2020). Date upon which the following number of events would normally have occurred. Number Named […]
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 […]
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