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09/07/2022, 5:36 am EDT

Emerging Drought Areas Heading Into 2023: Southeast U.S., East Africa and Argentina

The Climate Impact Company soil moisture outlook through the end of 2022 indicates emerging important dryness for the Southeast U.S., East Africa and Argentina to Southeast Brazil while China drought continues.
09/05/2022, 8:40 am EDT

California Heat Wave Blasts Through This Week; Thunderstorm Pattern to Follow

ECMWF points toward tomorrow as the hottest day of many consecutive extremely hot days which last through this week. Thunderstorms caused by Tropical Cyclone Kay can cause local flooding late this week/next weekend as the heat wave erodes. Short-term thunderstorm activity is likely over the Sierra Nevada and southwest California mountains.
09/01/2022, 12:14 pm EDT

Lingering TUTT Causing Shear to Inhibit North Atlantic TC Development

Presence of an upper-level low-pressure trough in the upper troposphere developed late last spring and lingered through meteorological summer. The upper trough is weaker in late August but still evident stretching from the Bahamas southwestward. The last time a tropical upper tropospheric trough was present during August in a vivid character was 2013 and during a weak La Nina climate.
08/31/2022, 4:07 pm EDT

China Drought Persists as Hinnamnor Misses to the East; U.S. Drought Expansion

Category-4 Typhoon Hinnamnor just-misses China to the east this weekend as intense drought continues. The immense California heatwave ahead peaks in strength next Tuesday. NOAA 30-day forecasts widen Midwest and Northeast drought while implicating Louisiana for September hurricanes.