The low relative humidity dominating the central North Atlantic tropics in August but easing recently suggests the environment is improving for tropical cyclone development except for the upper shear pattern in the Caribbean Sea and central North Atlantic tropics.

Using NOAA population weight CDD observations, the U.S. weekly population weight CDD was variable – normal and warm – early during summer 2022. The hottest part of summer climatologically is when the hottest weekly CDD count occurred in July. Recently, briefly cooler national CDD was observed. The warm season 2022 finishes somewhat warmer than normal.

Latest week 2-4 outlook for Europe reveals steady increasing wet risk to evolve in September leading to a fade of the historic summer of 2022 drought pattern.

The summer 2022 China drought is yet another example of large areas of super-warm SSTA (off the East Coast of Asia) and their correlation to drought-producing summertime upper-level high-pressure ridge areas. A similar phenomenon was observed in Europe this summer season.