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05/20/2025, 12:24 pm EDT
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Daily Feature: North Atlantic Warm Hole Forming; Implications?

The mid-latitude mid-to-late May 2025 upper-level low-pressure troughs, most prominent across the East U.S., are the result of high latitude high pressure blocking (also) causing unusually warm surface temperatures which are accelerating polar ice melt including the Greenland icesheet. The freshwater runoff is creating a stratified cool layer of water at the surface south of Greenland as the North Atlantic warm hole (NAWH) is developing.
05/18/2025, 7:29 pm EDT
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Brief Review of the May 15-16 U.S. Severe Weather Event

As a review, an exceptionally intense severe weather episode was observed late last week across the Upper Midwest, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic States. On May 15 (Thursday), NOAA/SPC’s final count of severe weather reports is 657 including an unusually high amount of hail (274) plus 32 tornado reports. On May 16 (Friday), NOAA/SPC counted 1, 216 damage reports including a whopping 371 hail damage events and 815 wind damage reports.
05/12/2025, 9:21 am EDT

Latest North Atlantic Basin SSTA Analysis

The official start of the North Atlantic basin tropical cyclone season is June 1st. During the active tropical cyclone season period of 2016-2024 when an average of 18-19 named storms have generated each year, the North Atlantic has averaged much warmer than normal and a likely catalyst to the active period. As mid-May approaches, the North Atlantic basin is marginally warm (+0.37C) and 0.23C cooler than 1 year ago.
05/09/2025, 6:30 am EDT
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The Power of Marine Heatwaves on Australia Climate

The primary culprit to the extreme heat observed across much of Australia during the past 3 months is the enhancing influence on subtropical upper-level high-pressure ridging stretching from southeast of New Zealand to Southern Australia by the presence of MHW’s.