The latest Europe/Russia week 2-4 outlook begins with a look at a gigantic marine heatwave centered on the Norwegian Sea and extending northward. By far, the strongest anomalous warming in this region on record and well-correlated to an upper-level high pressure ridge.

Strong upper trough stretched across the North Atlantic warm hole (NAWH) to the southeast of Greenland, has compensating trough and ridge patterns upstream and downstream causing high impact weather across North America and Europe into Russia during the next 15 days.

The southern extent of the coffee growing areas in Southern Brazil extend to the central portion of Parana. Beginning Saturday and repeating Tuesday, each morning presents a risk of frost.

During July 2024 localized areas of above normal rain were observed on the West Coast, central continent, and parts of the Southeast Coast. Soil moisture anomalies for July 2024 continue to show drought on the South Coast including southwest continent and Victoria.