Wet weather continues to emerge and intensify across Brazil. The rainfall is making a difference in soil moisture as East Brazil loses their wet signature. Additional heavy to excessive rainfall is on the way!
The DEC-25 U.S. gas population weight HDD is revised colder to 949, the coldest DEC since 2010 and 3rd coldest of this century. Previously, cold JAN-26 forecasts reversed warmer with mid-NOV updates and then colder with the early DEC projection. Operational models are shifting much warmer for JAN-26 therefore a warmer revision is necessary. The JAN-26 HDD forecast warms from 981 to 947 which ranks 13th coldest of 2020-25.
The general lack of precipitation of the past month (except Indonesia) may be a contributor to a wet bias of operational and AI 15-day forecasts for North and South America plus Europe. The ECM ENS is characteristic of all operational forecast models producing a wet forecast bias in 15-day outlooks for the past 30 days for the Americas. AI models have a similar common problem as demonstrated by AIFS ENS for Europe.
The wet weather pattern has shifted to Brazil during early December. Heavy rain was observed across Northern Chile to northwestern Argentina during the past week. The 10-day outlook equally combining GFS and ECM reveals wet weather shifts to Paraguay and eastward. Recently developed dryness in Argentina continues.