The Climate Impact Company North Atlantic seasonal tropical cyclone season forecast is updated. The activity forecast is similar to the early June outlook but adjusted more intense with an additional major hurricane and high accumulated cyclone energy index.

For many folks in Southeast Brazil a first-time experience witnessing snow and ice occurred on Thursday as a historic cold outbreak surged northward across all of the South/southeast Brazil crop areas.

Thermal extremes are present and more are ahead! The Central U.S. heat wave marches on and fades later this week into early next week. Another heat wave re-emerges in the West and expands to the North-central U.S. later next week. A North Africa to Western Russia heat wave emerges next week. Meanwhile a freeze strikes Southeast Brazil.

La Nina development appears to be developing rapidly! The Nino34 SSTA region is already at the La Nina threshold. Last week, the subsurface equatorial East Pacific cooled rapidly and if that trend continues a La Nina onset will be here quickly, possibly by September