For many folks in Southeast Brazil a first-time experience witnessing snow and ice occurred on Thursday as a historic cold outbreak surged northward across all of the South/southeast Brazil crop areas.
The cool phase of the Pacific decadal oscillation is likely to persist through northern hemisphere winter while the Atlantic multi-decadal oscillation warms for tropical cyclone season before shifting back to neutral phase late in the year.
Thermal extremes are present and more are ahead! The Central U.S. heat wave marches on and fades later this week into early next week. Another heat wave re-emerges in the West and expands to the North-central U.S. later next week. A North Africa to Western Russia heat wave emerges next week. Meanwhile a freeze strikes Southeast Brazil.
A major freeze for Southeast Brazil this week! The cold begins Wednesday morning but peaks Thursday morning with widespread -1C to -4C low temperatures. The chill is likely to linger into late week mornings.