Asia
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, […]
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! […]
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! https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1654091059968847874 Meanwhile, beneath an unusual strong anticyclone, the heat remains […]
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. https://twitter.com/sayakasofiamori/status/1540573217798377472 https://twitter.com/ThierryGooseBC/status/1540589106584899584 Tokyo tied it’s June record Sunday. https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1540996722004033536 FEATURED IMAGE: Weatherbell Parts of China (outwith Xinjiang) have exceeded 44C! https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1540669953728057345
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 […]
The all-time record heat that’s been achieved across the Russian Arctic this month has been very impressive. Overall we’ve seen the earliest 32C above the Arctic Circle and countless May all-time records set along with an ALL-TIME MAY RECORD FOR RUSSIA. Here are some of these impressive records. https://twitter.com/ScottDuncanWX/status/1396531742094368772 https://twitter.com/WeatherSarov1/status/1396094111661367302 https://twitter.com/therockyfiles/status/1395475183868203013 And Middle East https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1396068197829337088 […]
The Chinese capital, Beijing observed it’s coldest temperature since 1966 back on January 7, 2021. Thanks to a cold front driving a reinforcing blast of Siberian air south, the thermometer plummeted to -19.6C. The record cold comes in the midst of possibly one of China’s coldest December’s in recent memory. December temp anomaly.
December produced some of the biggest snowfalls on record for parts of the US Northeast and Japan. Now cold is showing up strong in many areas of the Northern Hemisphere. It’s like old man winter is fighting back and making up for his lack of presence this time last year. Thanks to high pressure anchored […]
With the help of a -AO releasing polar air south and connecting with an active/stormy mid latitude pattern, we have seen two areas of record breaking snowfall. The snow starved Northeast US has barely seen any snow in the last 2 winters but the storm last week changed that. Snow has finally ended. Updated snowfall […]
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