The ECM ENS 15-day temperature anomaly forecast identifies the cold pattern extending across all Western Eurasia. Helping to enhance the cold is gradual snow cover/snow depth increase peaking in 10 days.
The 7-day rainfall observations across South America were aggressively wet in Northern Argentina including Paraguay while East Brazil was extremely dry.
Last week, the Nino SSTA regions warmed too near, or warmer than the La Nina threshold. Implied is the short duration late 2025 La Nina episode is past peak intensity. Upper ocean heat is steadily diminishing in the equatorial East Pacific, a definite sign that La Nina is losing cool fuel to sustain intensity into the New Year.
Short-term hazards are intense and feature Blizzard Warnings across the Upper Midwest to the Northern Great Lakes and widespread high wind alerts for the East-central and Midwest U.S. Winter Weather Advisories for snow to ice extend across the Northeast States.