The Canadian Meteorological Center issued their seasonal climate forecast yesterday. The outlook maintains historic drought across far Southern Canada into autumn.

The cool phase of the Pacific decadal oscillation is likely to persist through northern hemisphere winter while the Atlantic multi-decadal oscillation warms for tropical cyclone season before shifting back to neutral phase late in the year.

A major freeze for Southeast Brazil this week! The cold begins Wednesday morning but peaks Thursday morning with widespread -1C to -4C low temperatures. The chill is likely to linger into late week mornings.

Dramatic warming in the Atlantic Ocean in the eastern equatorial region has been dramatic. The warming is not expanding west and northwest as forecast models have forecast, at least not yet.