An update on the +AAM forecasts issued last week indicated persistence and support of strong wind events this week in the Great Plains, Midwest and Northeast.

An unusually strong +AAM regime will cause over-achieving high wind events in the U.S. well into February.

An intensifying polar vortex in south-central Canada to the Great Lakes region spins out a hostile frigid arctic air mass next week most vigorous in the Midwest.

Agriculture markets in South America have blamed EL Nino for heavy rains in northeast Argentina and crop-impending drought across Brazil. However, the feedback to the atmosphere by excessive dry and wet soil regimes is enhancing already semi-permanent upper air features maintaining the summertime climate and likely to continue through February. It's not El Nino.