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04/16/2025, 4:41 pm EDT

April 2025 Climate Impact Company Marine Heat Waves Outlook

Climate Impact Company monitors marine heatwaves (MHW) due to their recent (past 10 years) increased presence and intensity and influence on climate patterns. Generally, anomalous high pressure extends across and downwind MHW regions, promoting drought risk while also adding low-level moisture to the atmosphere to cause over-achieving precipitation events and intensifying tropical cyclones.

04/15/2025, 5:18 am EDT

Recent Rapid Warming of Nino SSTA Regions Eases

Weak or non-existent trade winds to up-well cool waters are starting to regenerate as the southern oscillation index (SOI) shifts to a mostly positive phase during the past 30 days.

04/15/2025, 4:56 am EDT

Heavy Rain Ahead Western Europe, Black Sea Turns Warmer

The recent cold wave across Southeast Europe to Turkey was caused by a polar vortex generation likely related to stratospheric warming in the polar region of the past 6 weeks. Another intense trough spins out of that regime and brings heavy rain to Southwest and South Europe through the next 10 days.

04/14/2025, 5:19 am EDT

One of The Worst Freezes on Record Southeast Europe, Turkey, and into Black Sea Region

A late season cold wave has produced significant crop damage to the Eastern Europe/Black Sea/Turkey/Southwest Russia region. The farthest east cold spike was April 10-11 causing the worst freeze since 2014 in Turkey. The peak cold during April 7-9 was across Romania and Ukraine. Coldest mornings during the freeze events were in the -10’sC!