Severe drought in the Mid-Atlantic region is a significant concern as July approaches. The risk of over-achieving heat is significantly elevated across a large drought area during July. The hot bias provided by extreme dry soil moisture can easily overwhelm synoptic level forecasts and that’s the concern in July for the Mid-Atlantic region. The 12Z GFS Mid-Atlantic heat is hard to ignore.

The Climate Impact Company month 1-4 precipitation outlook for India is updated. The forecast is driven primarily by warm ENSO analog years and partially by marginally positive phase Indian Ocean dipole (+IOD). The outlook does not completely fail the wet monsoon due to impacts of El Nino. However, key crop areas in Central India are likely to encounter developing and strengthening drought during the next several months.

Searing heat remains in the forecast for Europe during the last 10 days of June. The hot weather episode is hotter than 2 recent events (6/18 and 5/26). Paris, France is above 100F all week. The 15-day forecasts are very dry and hot accelerating drought concerns. Climate signals indicate the heat should ease in the 11-15-day period.

Forecast models continue to make the case for developing and intensifying drought across much of Europe given continued hot and mostly dry 15-day forecasts and 16-30-day projections.