Strong to sometimes historic drought has affected many key areas during JUN/JUL/AUG 2022 including China, Europe, the U.S. and South America. 15-day rainfall outlooks indicate more dryness for China, redeveloping dryness in South America, wiping out the Southern U.S. drought and some beneficial rains for parts of the Europe drought area.

As. September 1st approaches, the main development region for hurricanes in the outer tropical North Atlantic is marginally warmer than normal, the greatest warming trend is in the Caribbean Sea and the northeast Gulf of Mexico is steadily warming.